Mary Schiros
Mary Beth Schiros lives in Grand Blanc Michigan, earned her Bachelor’s Degree at University of Michigan 1984. Mary is a certified watercolor instructor, by Alexander Art. Mary continues studies at the Flint Institute of Arts. Mary has taken courses from Joe Fettingis, Kathleen Conover, Robert Burridge, Caroline Jasper and Tom Lynch. Mary is also a member of several local art associations: the Greater Flint Arts Council, and Shiawassee Arts Council, and was a resident artist with the Red Ink-Flint Studio 2008, 2009.
Mary has displayed her art with group shows since 2006, and had her first solo show at Boundless Arts Gallery in Grand Blanc MI, 2008. The University of Michigan and San Angelo University of Texas have purchased work by Mary Schiros.
Mary is wife to Joseph Schiros and mother to Jay Kyle. Mary’s home is also home to retired racing greyhounds, and four cats. Mary currently teaches water media painting at Boundless Arts Gallery. Teaching brings to the surface, years of practice putting it on a conscious level to expand and share. Mary feels that sharing the experience is as important as sharing the material product of art.
The media Mary works in is water media that includes watercolor, and acrylic. Mary has been painting over 30 years, and does not give a date for becoming an artist, because is just a way of life, that is growing and changing as time goes on. Inspiration comes from nature, the human form and imagination. Mary’s work offers a view of life in vibrant color and strives for a level of excitement, and movement that is somewhere beyond what the nature provides. The ability to understand design and color is the strong foundation of an artist and painter, and shows in her work. Understanding the spontaneous nature of water media allows the artist to expand the character of the media, highlighting and illuminating for its own uniqueness, to create the original style that is characteristic of Mary’s art.
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Mary Beth Schiros lives in Grand Blanc Michigan, earned her Bachelor’s Degree at University of Michigan 1984. Mary is a certified watercolor instructor, by Alexander Art. Mary continues studies at the Flint Institute of Arts. Mary has taken courses from Joe Fettingis, Kathleen Conover, Robert Burridge, Caroline Jasper and Tom Lynch. Mary is also a member of several local art associations: the Greater Flint Arts Council, and Shiawassee Arts Council, and was a resident artist with the Red Ink-Flint Studio 2008, 2009.
Mary has displayed her art with group shows since 2006, and had her first solo show at Boundless Arts Gallery in Grand Blanc MI, 2008. The University of Michigan and San Angelo University of Texas have purchased work by Mary Schiros.
Mary is wife to Joseph Schiros and mother to Jay Kyle. Mary’s home is also home to retired racing greyhounds, and four cats. Mary currently teaches water media painting at Boundless Arts Gallery. Teaching brings to the surface, years of practice putting it on a conscious level to expand and share. Mary feels that sharing the experience is as important as sharing the material product of art.
The media Mary works in is water media that includes watercolor, and acrylic. Mary has been painting over 30 years, and does not give a date for becoming an artist, because is just a way of life, that is growing and changing as time goes on. Inspiration comes from nature, the human form and imagination. Mary’s work offers a view of life in vibrant color and strives for a level of excitement, and movement that is somewhere beyond what the nature provides. The ability to understand design and color is the strong foundation of an artist and painter, and shows in her work. Understanding the spontaneous nature of water media allows the artist to expand the character of the media, highlighting and illuminating for its own uniqueness, to create the original style that is characteristic of Mary’s art.
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- Date of birth : 1956
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Mary Beth Schiros
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I am a firm believer in the idea that creativity is a universal part of life. The process of making art is an opening up of ones self, to the community. Teaching art is the process of giving a part of your self to that community. I teach the creative process, for the pure enjoyment of connecting with other and watching an idea grow. I also believe that creativity needs to flow freely from the soul. The freedom of creativity can only be realized when you tap into ones self, without reserve, or internal criticism. There is much learned and absorbed by our eyes and our minds, which are beyond verbal description. Art is a visual description, whether it is simple, beautiful or strange, it is a way of showing something that words cannot. Artist freedom is an alternative manner of considering things, which induces the ability to derive ideas, and style from various sources. Applying ones natural born conditions, with systematized observation and experimentation, skillfully to a passion has produced my own instinctive feeling, in an artistic style. With my art, and my classes I hope everyone can tap into the creative universe that surrounds use and find inspiration to enrich life.
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Local scientist Mary Beth Schiros moonlights as artist
Published: Friday, December 19, 2008, 11:32 AM Updated: Friday, December 19, 2008, 11:38 AM
GRAND BLANC, Michigan — Mary Beth Schiros of Grand Blanc is something of a Renaissance woman. Her paintings, done in a variety of mediums, are being exhibited at Boundless Arts.
By day, she is a clinical lab scientist at Lapeer Regional Medical Center. She is a talented jewelry maker. She and her husband, Joe Schiros, have rescued several dozen greyhounds. She is a cat and horse lover. And she's pretty handy with a firearm. Schiros and her husband are members of the Linden Sportsmen's Club.
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Schiros is fond of combining her passions. Greyhounds, cats and horses appear in many of her paintings. And at some point, her handgun will be doing some painting.
She wants to take canvases, paints and her handgun to the shooting range, shoot the paint containers and see what kind of creation ends up on the canvas. Not as easy as it sounds. She said the trick is to figure out how to pressurize the paint so you have an idea how it will explode.
Steve Lund of Grand Blanc Township, also a member of the sportsmen's club, attended the exhibit opening and purchased a print of a painting titled "The Pond Edge," inspired by nature scenes from behind the township's Grand Ridge Galleria mall.
"Shooting is one of those things just like painting. You have to spend some time with it to get there," Lund said.
Schiros is a member of the Grand Blanc Arts Council, as is fellow painter Robert Van Duyne of Grand Blanc, who attended opening night of her exhibit last month.
"I like her work because it's such bright colors. She does such a good job of working all the colors together, which is something I've struggled with," Van Duyne said.
Sometimes those colors come to Schiros in her dreams.
"If I can get a piece of paper in my hand before it fades, then I can capture the memory," she said.
That's what happened with her painting "Heaven's Gate." A white waterfall runs through abstract blue and green mountains as birds hover and a bright sun peeks out of a purple sky.
Schiros works in watercolor, acrylic and collage. She has always drawn and painted but got more serious about her art six years ago. Her work is regularly for sale at an artists' co-op on the second floor of the Flint Farmers' Market. But Schiros said she paid her dues by starting out at craft sales and art fairs.
"That's where you toughen up," she said. "You'll hear all kinds of things."
Apparently, shoppers at these events are often rather blunt about their opinions of an artist's work, as if the artist isn't standing right there listening. Still, Schiros saw it as a learning experience and rejoiced when her paintings and jewelry sold.
While many original works are for sale at Boundless Arts, most of her collages and paintings also are available as prints. Many of her paintings can be seen at .