The Artist

"Mount's paintings invoke breathtaking images, utilizing the natural beauty of nature, while eulogizing the dignity and character of its inhabitants, bringing across the awe-inspiring vista and classical response to landscape."
--Nathan Oliveira

What goes around comes around. After a somewhat assiduous career of painting and teaching I have come "back home" to Marin County. In 1965 I moved from the Pacific Northwest to start my professional art career as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. While doing so I lived in Mill Valley. Four years later, with a Masters in oil painting from Stanford, I began my teaching career at San Rafael High School. After eight years I moved to Sebastopol and taught in Sonoma County for the next twenty years. I painted grands scaled paintings of the Laguna de Santa Rose and other various local coastal scenes. A year ago this spring I returned to San Rafael and have brought my love of wild life and habitat full circle.

Solo Exhibitions Include:

	2012	"Bringing It All Back Home", Sprint Copy Center, June-July, Sebastopol, CA
	2012	"Abstract Nature" , The Blue Door Gallery, Guerneville, CA, February
	2011	"Nature's Reward", Sprint Copy Center, July-August, Sebastopol, CA
	2007	Cutler Gallery, Sebastopol, CA
	2006	"Private Show", San Francisco, CA
	2005	"Natural Beauty of West Sonoma County", Sprint Copy Center, Sebastopol, CA
	2005	"Paints 2004-2005", Glenn, Guattery, Gunn & McAvry, LLP, Santa Rosa, CA
	1997	"Massai, Samburu and Nomads", Upstairs Art Gallery, Sebastopol, CA
	1992	"Massai", East-West Cafe, Sebastopol, CA
	1990	"Africans", Oberlin Gallery, Napa, CA
	1977	"Red Tails", Fort Mason Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions Include:

	2011	"Annual Holiday Sale", Soaring Crane Works Studio, Sebastopol, Ca.,December 3, 4 and 10, 2011
	2011	"Where the Wild Things Are" Feb. 2-28, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
	2011	"Nature's Palatte" March 11-April 16, Marin Arts Gallery, San Rafael, CA
	2011	Gala Garden Event (from 2009), Leguna Foundation, Sept. 11, 2-6 ,Sebastopol, CA
	2011	"Art from the Heart" (annually since 1980), Sonoma State Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
	2011	"Art for Life", (annually since 1980) Face to Face, Santa Rosa, CA
	2008	Sebastopol Gallery, Sebastopol, CA
	2007	"Art from the Source" (annually since 1982), Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA
	2007	"Three Women Artists", Cloverdale Public Library, Cloverdale, CA
	2007	Sebastopol Art Gallery, Sebastopol, CA (Opened in April)
	2006	"Art from the Heart", Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
	2006	"Vernisage", Plaza Art Center, Healdsburg, CA
	2006	"Art from the Source", Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA
	2006	"Art for Life", Face To Face, Santa Rosa, CA
	2006	"Small Works", Sonoma County Art Council, Santa Rosa, CA
	2005	"A Festival of Saints", Numina Center for Spirituality and the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
	2004	"Open Studio and Garden Party", Forestville, CA
	2004	"Friends", Santa Rosa, CA
	2000	"Small Works", Mesh Gallery, Sebastopol, CA
	1988	"Two Artists", Bernice Bing and Marge Mount, Winoma Gallery, Mendocino, CA

Awards

	2005	Merit Award, "A Festival of Saints" Numina Center, Santa Rosa, CA
	1995	Ribbon For Excellence", "Women Creating", Santa Rosa, CA
	1979	Best Painting, Women's Art Festival, Santa Rosa, CA
	1976	Artist-In-Residence Grant, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
	1976	Best Painting, Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA
	1969	Carnegie Grant, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
	1968	Carnegie Grant, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
	1967	Carnegie Grant, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Education

MFA	Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA	June, 1969
BFA	San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA	June, 1967

Collections Include:

Coldwell Banker
Northbay Savings
Stanford University Gallery
Railroad Square Law Offices
Chris Williamson
Barbara Vass Harwood
Dr. Tran
Dr. and Mrs. Heinz, Chicago
Dr. Fred Kronen, San Francisco
Johanna and Peter Ottenweiller
Faye and Lou Hinze

Bibliography Includes:

Krantz, Les, The California Art Review, (an illustrative Survey of the State's Museums, Galleries and leading Artists), American References, Inc.: Chicago, ILL, 1989, pp.64, 872-874, 881.
Eltner, Lorenz, The Graduate Program in Painting and Sculpture at Stanford, Dept. of Art, Stanford University, 1969.
"Graduate Drawing West", Catalog, Missoula, Montana, 1969.
Garfinkel, Ada, "Sausalito Show is a Winner", Independent Journal, San Rafael, CA, August, 1969.
Klinger, Karen, "A Cornucopia of the Arts in Sausalito", Independent Journal, Vol 115, No. 143, San Rafael, CA September 6, 1976.
Doublex, Vashte, "Artists Interviewed", Roar! News, Vol II, Number 1, pp. 1-4 Rural Women's Resources, Inc., Mendocino County, CA, October, 1988.
Jackson, Jesse, "More on Women Who Are Visual Artists", Sonoma County Women's Voices, No. 81, June-July, 1988.

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