Though born in England, Mary Hurst has spent much of her life elsewhere, in particular India, and North and West Africa. The influence of these environments has strengthened her predilection for strong colour and pattern. She is primarily interested in the use of emotive colour as a form of expression. In Nigeria she taught art and worked as a freelance artist, designing murals and colour schemes for polychromatic architecture.

After returning to England she concentrated on print making and exhibits regularly at venues which include the Royal West of England Academy, Manchester Academy of Fine Art and at Printmakers Council exhibitions throughout the United Kingdom. She is one of four artists who form the group exhibiting as North and South Printmakers. Mary now lives and works in the Algarve.

Art Education

National Diploma in Design, (Painting Special) - Scarborough School of Art 

Diploma in Fine Art, Painting, (subsidiary subject lithography). Slade School of Fine Art, London University. Lithography year prize. Tutor Ceri Richards. 

Mary has taught in schools in the U.K. and Nigeria. 

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Mary Hurst