North Gallery

The North Gallery at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden furthers our mission of exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants by featuring the horticulturally inspired work of Iowa artists.

Current Exhibition

Garden Walk

The paintings in this exhibit “Garden Walk” resulted from Mary’s desire to capture the beauty of nature in a way that won’t fade with the change of seasons. This art holds the contribution of the natural world. Mary’s interest in making pictures began in childhood. Her work includes portraits and landscapes, focusing on the way light hits form. One of her favorite subjects is nature and capturing that moment in time when gardens and their vegetation offer their most alluring shapes and hues in individual flowers and leaves.

While raising her family in Des Moines, she taught art lessons in her studio and at the Des Moines Art Center. Today, Mary continues to teach art lessons out of her home studio and is regularly commissioned to create works for public and private collections beyond the state.