"Art is something to grow old with where the older you get the more you grow."

Mary Fran has studied the art of watercolor with well-known and gifted artists: Peter Huntoon, Cheng- Khee Chee, Tom Lynch, Frank Webb, Tony Couch, Skip Lawrence, Arnie Westerman, Pat Dews, Robert O’Brien, Linda Kemp, Fred Lower, Jeannie Podolak, and oil- painting from Robert Frick.

Mary Fran is a signature member of the Vermont Watercolor Society, She is also a member of The Brandon Artist Guild, The Chaffee Art Center , The West River Artist Guild, The Killington Artist Guild, The Society of Vermont Craftsmen, and The Vermont Craft Council.

Mary Fran’s love of teaching has inspired her to share her passion for watercolor painting with students of all ages where she holds classes at the Rutland Town Community Centers, Rutland Regional Medical Center’s Women-To-Women for Cancer Survivors, the Killington Grande for the Killington Jazz Festival, and the Chaffee Art Center in Rutland, Vermont. Her love of texture has been the focus of many of her classes, encouraging her students to develop their creative side through the use of a variety of papers, media, and texturing techniques. Mary Fran has organized classes for local artists ; she was the Show Coordinator at the Chaffee Art Center for the Vermont Watercolor Society; she was a member of the Palette Committee for Brandon’s Palettes of Vermont project; she has juried local art exhibits and is presently serving on the Chaffee Art Committee and the Vermont Watercolor Exhibition Committee.

Mary Fran has been involved in many area artist promotional ventures : she painted a birdhouse for “Brandon is for the Birds”, and a rocking chair for “Brandon Rocks”, a train for the downtown “All Aboard Rutland” project, and 6 palettes for “Palettes of Vermont”.

Whipple Hollow is a watercolor using the crinkle technique:(The “Crinkle Technique” is a simple method of creating a naturally textured watercolor painting that closely resembles trees, leaves, branches, grass, foliage, and many other highly textured subjects. Mary Fran learned this technique taught from the renown watercolor artist, Cheng –Khee Chee, AWS. Oriental Masa paper (paper with a wax coating on one side) is dipped into water and then gently squeezed out, breaking up the wax coating ....when watercolor is painted over the smoothed out surface, it will fill in the “cracks” producing a naturally textured or “crinkling” effect.) Summer Flowers, Kennicot Mines & Almost Autumn are watercolor on watercolor paper.

"You will never be bored, depressed, or lazy when you discover the magical world of watercolor, especially when you share it with others."

Mary Fran Lloyd
109 Oakridge Drive
Rutland, VT   05701
802-775-0631