Mary Chaplin

Mary Chaplin is a professional French artist living in Cany Barville a delightful little town close to the stunning Normandy coast.
She was born near the Bay of the Somme and spent her younger years between the coast and the Picardie countryside where she would often accompany her father who was passionate about the local wildlife and environment. Her mother had a beautiful flower garden, growing flowers to sell at the weekly village markets , Mary would help her picking and creating bunches of flowers, old roses, peonies, lupines , phlox…, It was surely from these early years that her love of the sea, the countryside, forests and flowers come from.
Her earliest works then were motivated by her environment, marine landscapes, poppy fields, forests, country life, not forgetting the flowers in her mother’s garden. The Bay of the River Somme is famous for its flora, fauna and above all its beautiful light which has always been an inspiration for painters, poets and writers.
Early in her career she experimented with many different techniques, water colour, pastels, pencil, acrylic and oil, capturing the scenes around her, but even at the beginning of her career she was using ‘light’ as an integral theme through her works.
In 2005 he...

Mary Chaplin has had many plaudits throughout her career. She has exhibited throughout France, Belgium, Germany and England in galleries and private exhibitions. Her art has been published in several reviews, specialist art magazines and television broadcasts. Her art is spread all around the world in Private Collections. She is a listed artist with AKOUN.