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Contemporary Illustration
by Mary Lee Mattison
Amesbury MA
978-417-9277
Just exactly....Who is
The Art Fairy?
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What about
Me?
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Mary Lee Mattison –
Children’s Book Author, Illustrator,
Graphic
Designer, Writer
Description:
A Work in Progress…
Biography:
Definitely the Artistic type: Shares a
birthday with Elvis Presley, David Bowie and Stephen Hawking. (Boy, if
that isn’t a descriptive, DNA, Mary triad!) Profoundly… Witty, Clever,
Confident, very Intelligent (wicked smart) and a constant
stream of fascinating conversation. I can be fun and childlike or dark
and brooding (I like a nice mix [sic])
I Love, any and all forms of, Imagination and
Creativity, in any conceivable medium- I, for one, thought the
gargantuan, mashed potato sculpture that Richard Dreyfuss (Well, Stephen
Spielberg, or his peons really) created for the movie Close Encounters
of the Third Kind made the whole obsessive/compulsive ‘I’ve got
something stuck in my head’ Artist conundrum visual. Well, that’s just a
totally random example. Like I said ‘Imagination and Creativity in
any conceivable medium’ !!
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I am an
original al flower child of the 60's. I still dance “Barefoot with Patti Smith” garland of flowers in my hair;
have my long diaphanous white lace dress, gigantic paisley shawl and
self-loomed, beaded, Hippie jewelry.
My
curiosity and wild Irish imagination are boundless. My walls are covered
with ART of all kinds; Including my own vivid, cartoon-ish, original,
ultra-stylistic, water color and ink paintings- My son once described at
10 years old as my ‘Freakin’ Acid Hippie Pictures’. Bless him! Peter is
now 32 and an important Geek Prime. I also have a stunningly, brilliant,
gorgeous daughter, Melanie. Martha Stewart wishes she had her innate
style and panache! And don’t even get me started talking about the
blossom of my being, my Granddaughter sweet Miss Tessa Rhiannon. We’re
gonna hear tons more about her in future the Art Fairy ‘Kids and Art’
posts. (…I’ll find a perfect picture.)
I love to
read and study EVERYTHING: Children’s literature, especially Fairy
Tales, Myths and Legends, Neolithic Archeology, Science Fiction and Fact
(I’m working my way through the entire Desmond Morris catalog of modern,
cultural Anthropology at the present.) I embrace all Art through the
Ages, particularly the Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionism, Abstract
expressionism (I really do get Jackson Pollock) 60’s Psychedelic poster
art and whatever I might happen upon tomorrow. I live across the street
from a Library where I have acquired gabillions of frequent reader
miles.
I am a full
time Children’s Book Writer, Graphic Artist/Illustrator and
impressive Computer genius? No, no now that’s not right…jean-yis?
(Sound it out Mary…umm, ge-en-yus? Ya, that’s it genius!)
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That all is, of course, when I’m
not chasing after some intriguing new
object to inspect or collect! Some of my recent favorites are:
Opalescent, blue, French, Art Glass; dazzling, Vintage, pageant Crowns,
Antique (very, very used) twisted Brooms, early Peter Max items-I have
many 1970’s pots and pans (I’m still working on collecting up the
complete 8 piece Peter Max Dinner set-Each 6 piece place setting is a
different Peter Max design.) All the original Dr. Seuss books and items
(No I don’t, yet, have an original first edition of The Cat and the Hat,
but I’m certainly looking!) Frank Frazetta, the greatest Science Fiction
Illustrator of all time! (He once asked his wife, concerned at current
criticism, “Do I make my women’s butts too big? “No Frank! We all aspire
to be your, heroic, feminine visions) Did I mention I also collect
antique Fairytale books… |
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More on all that later…to be continued. |
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