ARTWORK

BIO

GEORGIA MASON

ARTIST STATEMENT

Georgia Mason employs a broad range of materials and techniques, such as watercolor, acrylic, tissue, wash, and found items to enhance and enliven her style.Her mixed-media work in recent years reflects a sense of freedom and experimentation.“Usually beginning with no preconceived subject matter, the painting tells me what comes next.Each work is awash with new possibilities when working with mixed media. – watercolors and acrylics are intermingled.Paint can be layered, textured, scraped and scratched.Items and images are added, subtracted, imprinted, covered over, embedded, or then uncovered.Papers may be added.  .  Imagination and magic are invited to slip in.What emerges generally arouses a refreshing sense of surprise and awe for me, and hopefully for the viewer.”Expressive and evocative, her paintings convey not only a delight in her environment but also a sense of personal exploration, and discovery. 

Before moving to North Carolina, she was living in the Washington, D.C. area where she was juried into the Baltimore Watercolor Society as an artist member as well as the Potomac Valley Watercolorists.She also worked as a marketing administrator for a major pharmaceutical company, assisting in the design of advertisements and promotional/sales collaterals. Her work has been selected for the cover of numerous publications.Georgia is a teacher and is currently teaching a series of workshops offering instruction in mixed/media and collage.Georgia now lives and maintains a studio in Emerald Isle on Bogue Banks. 

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from University of Louisiana, Monroe

Workshops with:Judi Betts, Jim Pittman, Alex Powers, Mary Todd Beam, Louise Cadillac, Vae Hamilton, Linda Werthwein

CURRENT AFFILIATIONS:
The Society of Layerists in Multi-Media
Watercolor Society of North Carolina
Twin River Artist Association
Arts Council of Carteret County

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
People’s Choice Award - Creative Catalyst On-line Art Contest  2007 Summer Art Show Theme: Telling Stories with Art – Handiwork – Love and Art

She was selected to be the artist for the 1991 Seafood Festival Poster in Carteret County, N.C.She was the first woman selected for that honor, and the poster was the first in the series to depict women.Coastal Women –Morning in Merrimon depicted local women picking crabs.