Mary Beagle

“I think of my work as interpretive portraits of my subjects. Whether the subject is human or animal, I try to show a feeling of serenity and harmony with nature.” Mary Beagle began her artistic endeavors early in life. As a young child, her parents encouraged development of her talent through her early school years when she took any art class available to her, which inevitably lead to further study in college. Mary attended the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford, Bloomfield, Connecticut, where she majored in painting, receiving a five-year Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, with honors. After graduation she worked for a large corporation as Senior Media Coordinator and graphics designer.

In 1994 she started devoting more time to her love of painting and once again began entering juried shows and competitions.

Mary, who is part Native American, has been interested in the culture for many years. Her work is mostly of women and men doing routine tasks of daily life or participating in cultural celebrations. She finds faces of the elders, the most interesting and expressive. Several years ago, she began including animals in her works. Research for her paintings is done by attending Native American gatherings and traveling throughout the southwest, visiting historical ruins, museums and points of interest pertaining to native cultures.

Mary works in oil on canvas, offering selected paintings as limited edition prints. For the last several years she has exhibited her work in regional juried outdoor art shows around New England as well as in juried competitions throughout the United States. Mary’s work is in collections in the United States and in England and Russia. Her work has been seen in Southwest Art Magazine, Art of the West Magazine, and in a special feature in the Hartford Courant and various local publications. Mary is a member of Quiet Corner Artists, the Working Artists Studios and an Associate member of the American Academy of Women Artists, and Oil Painters of America. She is also a Charter Member of the National Museum of the American Indian. She is currently represented at the Brown-Beagle Gallery in Coventry, CT and The Brick Gallery in Essex, CT.