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Mary Lou Crerar
Mary Lou Crerar had a long and distinguished career as an artist, painting landscapes in oils, acrylics, watercolours and Japanese sumi-e. She attended the Vancouver School of Art ...view moreMary Lou Crerar had a long and distinguished career as an artist, painting landscapes in oils, acrylics, watercolours and Japanese sumi-e. She attended the Vancouver School of Art Design, studying with the artist, Molly Bobak. In Toronto, Ontario she studied Sumi-e, the art of Japanese brush painting, with Kaz Hamasaki and Priest Tanahashi and her Sumi-e paintings of Banff were accepted in the Academy of Sumi-e in Osaka, Japan. Her paintings have been displayed in galleries and shows in Japan, the U.S.A. and across Canada from Victoria B.C. to Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Her books include "Sketchbook of the Rocky Mountains", "West Coast Sketchbook" and "Journal of Alien #25: A Painter in Pakistan". As well, her writing has been published in many chapbooks. (Portrait photograph by Denise Bull)view less