Artist at work - Creativity at play

Local Artist Mary Titus is originally from Florida and moved to Carmel over 20 years ago. Mary has had many one person shows and is collected all over the world. She has won many awards.

Mary Titus’ exuberance for painting began as a child when she played with all mediums. She experimented with charcoal, pastels, chalk, acrylics, oil and her favorite watercolors.

Mary is mostly self taught, although she did attend Hilton Leech Studios in Sarasota, Florida, on a scholarship, and studied with nationally known artists Valfred Thelin, Nicholas Reale. She also attended Master Color Workshop with Edward Betts. Today, Titus teaches painting techniques and has a poster of her techniques.

For many years, Titus painted dreamy coastal vistas and landscapes of the Monterey Peninsula, and exotic scenes from her travels to far away lands. At the beginning her works were abstract, then she would place something recognizable, so as to please the viewer. Today, Titus paints 8 - sometimes 15 - hour days, concentrating on bright fluid colors of shapes that reflect something from the unconscious, influenced by her many travels. Titus believes in challenges and finds abstraction is not only a challenge, but speaks to the viewer more than a landscape or a painted vase of flowers.

Listed below are just a few of her accomplishments...

• 1999 sponsored by The Royal Family, Saudi Arabia
• One person show at the Alkozoma Hotel, Saudi Arabia, 1999
• TV show Focus on the Art's, 1976, 1978
• Focus on the Stars, San Jose, CA, 1993
• Travel to South Africa, 1993 and 1994
• Travel to East Africa, 1994
• Published photographer
• Published painter
• Judicator
• Listed in Who’s Who
• Paintings rented to ABC TV’s The Bachelor
• Titus has shown in many galleries: Chicago, San Francisco, Pennsylvania, Florida, Saudi Arabia, Carmel
• Shown at Zantman's Galleries of Carmel, and Palm Desert, CA
• One person show 2004: Zantman Gallery Carmel, CA
• Shown at Masterpiece Gallery Carmel, CA
• Showing at The Phillips Galleries, Carmel, CA and Santana Row in San Jose, CA