Artist Martha Jo Mahoney’s canvas reflects her travels
across the Americas, the Far East as well as Florida landscapes
where she grew up. Mahoney works with vivid colors in oil, acrylic,
chalk and graphite on canvas and paper in a style influenced
by modern American “realist expressionist” painters
such as Mitchell, Diebenkorn and DeKooning.
“Working quickly, continuously layering paint and medium
down and pushing it around with brush or hands, keeping no area
sacred…always baiting accidents, playing with the medium
and striving to achieve a balance between accident and control.
My images are derived from nature and remembered feelings of
the landscapes from my travels and home.”
After studying Fine Arts at the University of Florida with the
likes of Hiram Williams and Lenny Kesl, she moved to the northeast
where she developed her style of painting around Chaddsford, Pa,
Princeton, NJ and the New York area. Martha has returned to Central
Florida where she works out of her studio and continues her exploration
of painting.
Mahoney’s paintings have been in many of the leading art
festivals across the Northeast and Florida as well as private
collections. Her work can be seen at Meridian Gallery, 126 S.
Broad Street, Thomasville, Georgia;
Hunt Home Couture
964 Airport Road #1,
Huntsville, Alabama; and Q Gallery,
29 South Orange Avenue,
Orlando, Florida.
She is
a member of Crealde
Arts, Maitland
Art Center and Orlando
Museum of Art.
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