Mary Husted

Mary Husted was born and raised in England. She moved to Wales in 1979. In 1986 she returned to study Fine Art and since graduating in 1990 she has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. She is based in South Wales, but has spent extended periods living and working in Australia and South East Asia. She has works in public and private collections in England, Wales, France, Australia, Hong Kong and Canada.

‘In addition to making framed works and wall-mounted boxes I fill notebooks. My favourite mediums are drawing and collage. I delight in the happenchance of moving round bits of torn-up paper, drawing and found fragments until they make suggestions to me and something just happens on the page. The folding books that I first discovered traveling in Hong Kong and China in 2005 offered me new and exciting ways of thinking about image making in a book format. It is a different way of unfolding an image. I continue to explore the possibilities of this format.’

Wings, 2012, mixed media/collage on paper