“If you have attended workshops or art classes, at one time or another you have been told, ’You have to paint in a series,'” says Mary Elle. “The first time I heard this, my stubborn streak said to me, ‘I don’t want to limit myself to painting the same thing over and over again. It’s too confining. It limits my artistic flow. It’s too boring.’ As the years have gone by, however, I have found that I naturally gravitate to the subjects that interest me, and painting in a series no longer seems like something I need to resist. If I’m honest, I tend to paint the subjects that I paint well, and I am less drawn to paint those that disappoint me. Much as I might like to be a landscape artist, I am not.
