 Mary Baker designed and built her studio in the heart of the historic seaport town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Newburyport's flowers, gardens, landscapes and antique houses have been the inspiration for the artist's realistic oil painting.
Mary's art work has passion, depth and beauty, capturing moments in time. Her art work has the power to inspire lives and to nourish and enhance the spirit.
Mary's sophisticated and cultured style reflects not only her understanding of the mystery of art, but also her years of technical art education. Mary Baker's perceptive, skilled and tasteful art work is for the discriminating buyer.
You will find Mary's evocative, compelling and beautiful paintings not only on the Gallery pages, but also on every page of the artist's website.
Newburyport, Massachusetts is on the coast, north of Boston, right before the New Hampshire border. Newburyport is only a few miles from Routes 1, 495 and 95. It is approximately 50 minutes by car from Boston (the train from North Station is also available),  and 30 minutes from Portsmouth New Hampshire.
You can experience the city's charming and stylish historic downtown, with its shops and restaurants and beautiful boardwalk beside the mouth of the Merrimac River. Plum Island's marshes and beaches, along the Atlantic Ocean, are only a few miles away. Maudslay State Park has forests and fields, trails and gardens and is right within Newburyport's city limits.
Directions to Newburyport can be found here as well as 2 maps.
Please feel free to contact Mary about artwork, prices or gallery information.
 For me my studio evokes the whispers of the stillness of New England's meeting houses and the tranquility of New England's gardens. I have always loved both New England gardens and meeting houses. But this studio made me realize why. I love the way the light filters down from the balcony's windows on the stark white walls, and filters through the leaves and flowers in the garden. But, the thing I love the most, is the illuminating silence.
I have never been able to paint with people around or a great deal of noise. If I do play music, it is one CD or tape that I will play over and over for months, even years, which eventually becomes a kind of chant or a mantra.
 In the stillness it is possible for me to hear that deep inner voice, far below my conscious self, to be able to know what to paint each day, so that I can listen to my paintings as they take shape and grow. The silence is a mystery that I enter into each time I sit down in my studio to paint. It is in that still, tranquil and centering space that I can take small steps along the way on a creative journey.
The studio holds in a sense the silence of a womb, a place where paintings are born. The garden outside reminds me of the cycles of creativity. The white walls and illuminating light reminds me that I will have the courage to hear my own inner voice, which will be made visible each day, little by little on the studio walls.
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