# @westernavearts on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-04-16T22:01:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Western Avenue | Studios & Lofts (@WesternAveArts) — https://gondola.cc/WesternAveArts

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Today’s #Artist365 spotlight comes from Studio 360, Mary Rose O'Connell.

Mary Rose O’Connell is best known for her dynamic oil paintings of the New England coast.
Other genres she has mastered are her sensitive portrait, still life, and landscape paintings. She
paints in her studio and en plein air in a representational style. Classically trained in the Boston
School Tradition, her work shows a strong grounding in composition and design combined with
the color and light effects influenced by the 19 th century Impressionists.

Along with being a national award-winning artist, Mary Rose was a past recipient of the Charles
Family Foundation, the Cape Ann Museum, and Copley Society of Art Fellowship. Mary Rose is
a juried artist member of the Copley Society of Art, the North Shore Arts Association, and the
Rockport Art Association and Museum. She has exhibited with the Oil Painters of America, the
American Impressionists Society, the Allied Artists of America and the Catharine Lorillard
Wolfe Art Club at Gramercy Park, N.Y.

Mary Rose instructs students in composition and design techniques using oil, acrylic, gouache,
and drawing mediums. In addition to the technical aspects, the classes focus on color, value, and
edge relationships within the paintings. She conducts workshops throughout the United States
and Europe. Her series of online instructional videos are facilitated through Epiphany Fine Art.
Mary Rose maintains a studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell owned by the Boston
Council for the Arts. Prior to moving her studio to Western Ave, she spent six years as a studio
artist at the Whistler House Museum of Art. Mary Rose is currently the President of the Board of
Trustees at The North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester, MA.

Enjoy her art maryroseoconnellfineart

#StudioLife #ArtistAtWork #SupportLocalArtists #MadeInLowell #ExploreLowell #NewEnglandArt #OilPainting #Impressionism #ArtEducation #CreativeCommunity

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