Mary Gregg Byrne

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Mary Gregg Byrne
Born1951 (age 7273)
Nationality American
Education University of Oregon
School of Visual Concepts
Known for Portraits, illustration, landscapes
Awards1997 Juror's Award for Painting, Tacoma Art Museum Northwest Biennial
2003 Benjamin Franklin Award for illustration, One Smile

Mary Gregg Byrne (born 1951 in Oberlin, Ohio)[ citation needed ] is an American portraitist, Illustrator, and landscape artist, who is best known for her watercolor paintings. [1]

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Biography

Byrne was born in 1951, in Oberlin, Ohio and grew up in the Midwest. Byrne's grandmother was an artist, and Byrne started painting when she was a child, being encouraged by her mother. [2]

Byrne went to Occidental College, intending to become a biologist. But she later changed her mind and attended University of Oregon, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking in 1975. [2] After graduating from university, Byrne worked as a scrimshaw and advertising designer at Alaskan Silver & Ivory Company for a few years until 1980.[ citation needed ] After that, she began painting watercolors. In 1995, she attended School of Visual Concepts.[ citation needed ]

In 1975, Byrne moved to Bellingham, Washington, where she currently lives. [3]

Career as an illustrator

Byrne's works have been exhibited in many places in the United States. Byrne is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, National Watercolor Society and the Northwest Watercolor Society, [3] and she has had her works shown in traveling exhibition of Northwest Watercolor Society.[ citation needed ]

In 1997, Byrne received the Juror's Award for Painting at Tacoma Art Museum Northwest Biennial. [1] In 2003, Byrne won a Benjamin Franklin Award for her illustrating work on the 2002 children book One Smile.[ citation needed ]

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  2. 1 2 Howell, Trisha . The Journeying Workbook: Adventuring to Unleash Your Inner Power p 224
  3. 1 2 "Sausalito Art Festival Virtual Gallery - Mary Gregg Byrne". Archived from the original on 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2008-08-05.