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Artist Mary Jane Q Cross, lives in Central NH, and focuses on the landscape and its endless light effects.

Born July 1951, her 1973 formal arts training at the Worcester Art Museum gave Cross a solid academic foundation. DuMond, Metcalf, Bouguereau, Gerome’ and the Pre Raphaelites strongly influence her work. Together with 19 years of mural restoration, a love for classical realism, and a large body of well known, figurative Biblical work, these are some of the areas that have helped form the painter she is today.

Continued study includes many years with a 92 year old artist, Fran Hoyt, a student of Vincent DuMond, an early 1900’s landscape painter. The pallet that best enables her to evoke the progression of hills and atmosphere and light affect is the one that DuMond handed down to several of his students. It is not uncommon to meet fellow artists at shows or exhibitions that recognize each other from this identifiable treatment of the landscape and palette, who have studied with other DuMond students

The group of landscapes at this web site have all been painted since May 1999. They are a group of paintings done in the new medium of Water Mixable oils, ones that can be cleaned up with soap and water, but still deliver color
and look of traditional oils. For physical reasons they are predominantly painted with the fingers.