"I Paint what stirs my spirit and hope it is spiritually fulfilling to the viewer"
Slightly Expressionistic
When you buy her art, you buy a well crafted piece by an international artist.. Her process of underpainting in opposite colors and using knife techniques for the final layer is unique and offers the viewer true, clear colors which add to the intrincsic value.
A national and international prize-winning artist, Mary-Louise Biasotti Hooper paints seascapes, landscapes, cityscapes, and still-life. Her purpose is to bring viewers a moment of respite and beauty in their stressful lives by taking them away to another place. As one buyer stares, her work is "...peaceful calming nature scenes [that show] an ability to convert deep feelings to canvas".
Born in Greenwich Village, New York City, to an Italian immigrant family, the yearly art shows in Washington Square Park [begun in 1931 by Jackson Pollock] influenced her desire to paint. Since art was not encouraged as a way to make a living, she entered the field of Education. Her art became a self-taught hobby until an art degree in 2002. Today, besides producing art, she conducts art classess and workshops for children and adults in all media. Influenced greatly by the work of Pissarro and Cezanne, she calls her work "Slightly Expressionistic".
Internationally, she is life-juried into the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea [Biennale International Contemporary Art Show] in Florence, Italy. She is also juried into the Gallery of International Fulbright Artists/Scholars and has participated in international art projects.
Nationally, she has participated in numerous juried and non-juried individual and group shows in Michigan, California, North Carolina, Kansas, Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland , Pennsylvania and Florida, winning prizes. Her work can be seen at galleries in Pennsylvania, Bradenton Florida, Punta Gords Florida and Venice Florida.
Mary-Louise Biasotti Hooper is presently a member of the International Fulbright Arts Task Force, the Venice Art Center [Florida] and an Associate member of the Oil Painters of America.
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