Mara Schasteen
Mara Schasteen is a Wyoming native and a lifetime artist. Her
passion for art began as a small child, carving drawings into planks of wood
with tools from her dad’s shed. Growing up in the beautiful Big Horn Mountains,
Mara developed a passion for nature and a desire to express its beauty in
unique and exciting ways. Today, Mara’s intense self-study of the arts has
produced a fresh technical style that draws elements from many of her heroes in
art, past and present.
Studying graphic design and advertising at Oklahoma Christian
University provided Mara with a solid foundation in design, color theory and
the effort required to become excellent at whatever the task may be. Mara began
a family shortly after college and as she set about the important mission of
raising four brilliant children, she discovered and slowly developed her true
passion for fine art and portraiture.
Mara now considers herself an expressive naturalist painter,
desiring to convey moods, emotions and energy with textures, colors and
intimate subjects. Mara finds great joy in her gift of art and she boldly uses
her talent to celebrate simple beauty.
Working most commonly as a direct painter, alla prima, Mara is most fulfilled when she expresses a subject in
the simplest terms. Her ability to combine illusions of reality with expressive
textures treats the viewer to a simple telling of poetic stories, inviting the
eye to enjoy the nature of oil paint itself and experience the energy carefully
placed into each stroke.
Mara currently lives and paints in Sheridan, Wyoming with her
husband, four children and six chickens.
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