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Mary K. Bryson was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She started her formal art training in college where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She moved to Chicago, IL to attend The University of Illinois at Chicago where she studied medical illustrationand received a Masters of Associated Medical Science. For her master's thesis, sh designed and produced a computer game "Hysterical Histology" which helped medical students learn histology in a gaming environment. Upon graduating in 1990, she opened her own medical illustration studio and has since produced award winning illustrations for pharmaceutical companies, medical journals and advertising agencies worldwide.

Mary’s landscape paintings emerged in 1998 when she realized she had not painted with the color green in 8 years. (Medical illustration does not use any green unless one is painting the gall bladder.) This yearning led her, literally, to greener pastures, where she paints in oils and pastels.

Mary discovered the genre of still life painting in 2008. As a still life painter, she manipulates the viewer by first enticing him with the light and then inviting him to explore the shadows of a painting. The most interesting things can happen in the shadows.

Mary is on the Board of the Langhorne Council for the Arts. She is also a member of the Artists of Yardley, The Association of Medical Illustrators, and The Illustrators' Partnership of America.

When Mary is not creating art, she is playing her harp.