Mary Pyche
My interest in art started at my grandfather’s knee when he would draw a cup and saucer for me and ask me to draw something for him. He did great cups and saucers.My grade school didn’t offer art, so I took classes at the YMCA.
My high school didn’t offer art, so I took classes at Mass Art in the summertime. I decorated my high school for the Junior Prom.
As a young adult and owner of various roller skating rinks around New England, I painted mostly when the need arose: murals to decorate the rinks, flyers to advertise the rinks, etc. Currently you can see my murals at Skateland in Bradford, Ma.
In 1982, a friend of mine encouraged me to taking classes at the Museum School at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I studied there for 10 years, weekends and summers, mainly studying with the renowned artist, Joel Babb, who believed in the old system of academic training. Joel is a featured artist at Vose Galleries, Boston, and was one of the first artists to be invited when they started to feature living artists. I received a thorough training in painting, drawing, sculpture, and design, as well as art history and other related subjects.
In the summer of 1983, I studied at the Art Students League in NY City, concentrating on oil painting, still life, portrait, the model with Jack Faragasso and David Laffel, and life drawing with Gustav Rehberger. I also studied and worked with stained glass.
Then for a little mental conditioning, I studied philosophy at Harvard Extension.
After a period of working in an administrative position at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a graduate school at Tufts University for 11 years (retired in May 2000), and running rinks and coaching artistic competative roller skaters for 40 years, I am now devoting myself to painting.
To brush up, pun intended, I have since taken workshops in Maine, Florida, Canada, New Mexico and Massachusetts, and have joined the Newburyport Art Association (NAA) and the Abstract Art Group of New England (AAGNE) to build friendships with area artists and gain local recognition.
I maintain a studio and presentation space in my home, and publish my own website and blog. I am currently painting every day and considering returning to art school to finish my degree.
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