Mary Sipp Green painted the natural terrain of Martha’s Vineyard—a popular vacation destination off the Massachusetts coast—and was inspired by its colors and diversity. She worked most often with oil on linen, but her techniques and “aesthetic aims” evolved. Less representational and more expressive in style, Sipp Green’s paintings are “explorations in beauty and the spiritual presence found in nature.” She began by sketching on-site, then started work in the studio after a “meditative interval of temporal and spatial distance that allows memory and emotion to guide the work.”
