Mary Lang is a mixed media artist who paints abstractly, exploring texture, shapes, line and colour. She grew up entwined with nature within a connected community. Her father was an artist and her family shared a passion for the arts and nature and community. Throughout her life she participated in movement, music and visual arts. She has been painting for a number of years and is thrilled to be painting full time now since she retired from her 30 year career as a therapist. Her work is very influenced by her attraction to texture, shapes, lines, colour reflections, shadows, movement in nature,  people and structures within community. She is  interested in abstraction and improvisation in all art forms which reveals itself through an intuitive process of building media up, tearing it away, covering and painting until the composition feels complete. Her approach to art making allows her to express her passion for the environment, architecture and humanity. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and recently participated in the Online Federation showcase, Small Exhibition and will be showing in the Abstracted exhibit mid September 2023. I have shown my work various art crawls on the Sunshine Coast where I lived for 30 years.