Mary Ann Conkel
Mary Ann Conkel was born on the Eastern shore of Maryland and raised both in Maryland and in the desert that’s southwest of Tucson, Ariz. Her love of nature has influenced her art.
She uses bottles to create wind chimes and lighted, painted fairy bottles. Her sun catchers and mobiles are fashioned from copper wire, crystal, and stone beads. She also paints shells and stones.
She credits her father, who was raised on a farm, for instilling her love of nature. Some of her earliest memories are of being out in a boat with her father and siblings and fishing, crabbing, or clamming. He would take his family hiking and show them edible plants and animals not often seen.
Mary Ann worked a summer in Yellowstone National Park and several in New Mexico. She’s lived in Florida for 36 years and in Dunnellon for 33. She says she continues to love nature and walking, hiking, swimming, and biking.
For her, “My art and my gardens are my own personal therapy,” she says.
She uses bottles to create wind chimes and lighted, painted fairy bottles. Her sun catchers and mobiles are fashioned from copper wire, crystal, and stone beads. She also paints shells and stones.
She credits her father, who was raised on a farm, for instilling her love of nature. Some of her earliest memories are of being out in a boat with her father and siblings and fishing, crabbing, or clamming. He would take his family hiking and show them edible plants and animals not often seen.
Mary Ann worked a summer in Yellowstone National Park and several in New Mexico. She’s lived in Florida for 36 years and in Dunnellon for 33. She says she continues to love nature and walking, hiking, swimming, and biking.
For her, “My art and my gardens are my own personal therapy,” she says.
