About the artist Mary Bryson
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 illustration and received a Masters of Associated
Medical Science. For her Master’s thesis, she designed and produced a computer game
“Hysterical Histology” which helped medical students to 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 with her father, Charley Kelso.
Mary’s passion for gardening and flowers brought her to her current focus of floral
painting. Capturing the color nuances, the delicacy of flowers, and the inner light of
flowers provides endless challenges.
When Mary is not creating art, she is playing her harp, or growing her floral subjects in
her beloved gardens.
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 illustration and received a Masters of Associated
Medical Science. For her Master’s thesis, she designed and produced a computer game
“Hysterical Histology” which helped medical students to 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 with her father, Charley Kelso.
Mary’s passion for gardening and flowers brought her to her current focus of floral
painting. Capturing the color nuances, the delicacy of flowers, and the inner light of
flowers provides endless challenges.
When Mary is not creating art, she is playing her harp, or growing her floral subjects in
her beloved gardens.