MARY BOURNE (SCO)

Mary Bourne RSA FRSS is an artist based in the rural North East of Scotland whose work explores our environment and how we relate to it, physically, intellectually and subjectively.
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Her varied professional practice balances commissions for the public realm with exhibitions, residencies and education projects. Stone is her principal medium, though she also works in a variety of other materials, as well as using photography and digital design.

Mary says: “For me art is a medium for reflection and communication. Given the durability of my medium this means communication not only between contemporaries but between generations: stone warmed and shaped by my hands will perhaps again be warmed by the hands of someone in some unknowable time to come.”

​Artist website

Reflection Pools (2024)

3x3 REFLECTIONS

bedrock cups the rain
wind ruffled, sunlight fragments
Earth | Water | Air | Fire
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land’s edge, the sea’s breath
rising, receding; washing
restless shifting shores 
 
hand reaches for hand
across years, over wide seas
the circle complete