Mary Ann Peters

Mary Ann Peters earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington. She has exhibited extensively throughout the region in both solo and group exhibitions and her work can be found in numerous regional collections. She was a winner of the Behnke Foundation’s Neddy Artist Fellowship in 2000 and received a second award nomination in 2005.

Mary Ann Peters creates her paintings using a method that has an affinity to the “automatic writing” process developed by surrealist writers. These early authors and poets attempted to tap directly into the unconscious by allowing themselves to write freely, unbound from logic and grammar. Peters builds each composition from a spontaneous arrangement and accumulation of marks and lines, which are filtered through her aesthetic sense and experience.