The Library Painting

Mary Garoutte is a multi-disciplinary fine artist/painter based in New Brunswick, Canada. She studied painting at NSCAD University. Since graduation, she primarily works in traditional Alla Prima technique in oil. She has taught painting and drawing workshops to adults and children, as well as exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada & internationally. Garoutte occupies her time between painting & private art instruction. Garoutte has worked for a decade painting the landscape, architecture & vernacular of Eastern Canada, & recently has shifted from urban landscape into Symbolism & Magic Realism with both it’s strong, subversive narrative & dreamlike subject-matter. Garoutte has a background in photography & interest in the medium of film and cinema, which is reflective in her paintings in the pre-occupation with light, shadow & dramatic cinematic imagery. Major influences which she attributes the aesthetic of her work include Canadian Post-Impressionism, The American Ashcan School, Canadian artist Alex Colville, British figurative artist Lucian Freud, Surrealist artist Rene Magritte, American artists Wayne Thiebaud, Edward Hopper & Grant Wood, as well as Canadian photographer Gregory Crewdson & film greats such as Alfred Hitchcock & Sergei Parajanov. Garoutte accepts public and private commissions.