MARA LEHMANN (201) 589- 3957

Evermore Art Studio  

5487 Route 23A

Haines Falls, NY12436

evermore@aol.com

hudsonriverartistsguild.com

ARTIST STATEMENT

Evermore Art Studio 5487 Route 23A Haines Falls, NY12436

“To be in the country among the trees, rolling hills, blue sky and earth. To walk along a wooded path and visually drink in all that surrounds me. To take a deep breath and inhale the crisp clean air. To exhale amid the beauty of nature before me. To give a sigh and feel at peace will myself and my surroundings. To capture on canvas these feelings of tranquility evoked by nature. This has always been my endeavor as well as my source of inspiration.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mara has recently moved to upstate New York Growing up in New York, she began oil painting lessons at age ten. Family travels, as well as escapes into the country often proved to be inspiring subject matter for her paintings, and still are to this day. Mara paints simple, quiet scenes of country roads, river inlets, working farms and wooded paths in a traditional, representational style. She endeavors to capture the natural beauty and serenity of the countryside on her canvases, using subdued colors, forceful tones and shifting lights and shadows.

AWARDS

2008 AARP 3rd Annual Calendar Contest 

2001 Maynard Memorial, 

Ridgewood Art Institute 2000, 1998, 

Painting, Twilight Park Annual 

1999 Painting, Hudson Valley Art Association 

1999 Painting, Audubon Artists, Salmagundi Club

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012 Bannerman Island Gallery, Beacon NY

 2012, 2011 Twilight Park Annual, Haines Falls, NY 

2011, 2010 “Bella Tuscanny,” Kaaterskill Gallery, Hunter, NY 

2010, 2009 Windham Fine Arts Windham, NY

 2007 The Gallery At Work, Kingston, NY

 2001 Hoorn Ashby Gallery, New York City 

1998 National Arts Club, Allied Arts of America 85th Annual, NYC,

 1998 Salmagundi Club, American Artist’s Professional League, Grand National, NYC 

1998 Hudson River & Communities Regional Juried, Woodstock School of Art, NY 

1995 Bergen Museum of Arts and Sciences, NJ, RAI 15th Annual Juried Exhibition