About the Artist

Mari Craig has been painting for the last seven years and is passionate about abstract expressionist painting.  She loves to infuse color with life and paints mainly on a subconscious/unconscious level.  She has exhibited her art at VisArts, The Meeting House Gallery, Glenview Mansion, Leisure World Gallery, Friendship Heights Community Center and the Chevy Chase Women's Club.  She is also a poet and some of her paintings have poetry that she has written about  her paintings and vice versa.  

Ms. Craig has a philosophy of art with the objective of creating an atmosphere in a painting that reflects warmth, light and positive space.  Her intent is to give the audience a sense of a new beginning a sense a turning point; of a new beginning.  Conceptually, Ms. Craig thinks of daybreak, a change in direction a flower, plant or tree seedling emerging, blossoming or bearing fruit.  Through shapes and lines she creates a sense of wonder.  Through different values, tones and textures.  Ms. Craig’s paintings have a sense of unity and depth with seamless transitions.  Her compositions are unique having a sense of balance and proportion in a pattern that has a singular rhythm of its own.

2015 -18 - Art Education with Millie Shott & Sharon Minor

2016 – Winner Student Exhibition at VizArts in Rockville, MD

2017 & 18 - Chevy Chase Women’s Club Art Show

2017 – Featured Artist on Art Wanted for Courage to Succeed

2018 – Friendship Heights Art Exhibition, Montgomery Art Association, Honorable Mention in Abstract 3D category

March 2018 – Winner April Boldbrush Competition, Fine Art Studio Online in abstract category for “Spill”

May 2018 - "Sunset on the Water", was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the May 2018 Boldbrush Painting competition. 

September ’18 - "Flow", was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the September 2018 Boldbrush Painting competition. 

October 2018 – “Composition #8” - Top 15% in the October Boldbrush Contest.

January ’19 Art Education with Hiral Joshi

"Schism" was selected as part of the FAV 15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the January 2019 BoldBrush Painting competition. 

"Jupiter", was selected as part of the FAV 15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the May 2019 BoldBrush Painting competition. 

"Firefall ", was selected as part of the FAV 15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the March 2020 BoldBrush Painting competition.

"Composition 21" I am proud to announce that my painting was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the May 2020 BoldBrush Painting competition.