Mary's work evolves from the traditional etching process. She enjoys the expressive possibilities of carborundum, collagraph, monoprint, mixed media and painting in oils. Using landscape or seascape as an external structure,she works in layers, starting at an instinctive level and progressing through many experimental stages, exploring surface and texture to create painterly images of intense mood and atmosphere.

[She] has always been absorbed by Dartmoor as a place to set the imagination working. She feels the tactile quality of its rocky surface,its textures, its bleak ruggedness, its sadness, and the echoes of an ancient history.' (Jenny Pery, "The Visionary Gleam", Transactions 2000)