Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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256 256 It takes three different studios to accommodate all the work oil painter Mary Rose O'Connell does. There's the one in her home with simulated natural lighting where she works from photographs; there's another in which she stores all her materials for stretching and mounting linen canvases; and then there's the one located in an annex at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, where she can be found painting in the courtyard and in the park on many a day, no matter the season. Fifteen years ago, O'Connell got serious about making painting her priority. She toured galleries to find artists she favored, and then she sought them out and studied with them. Among her teachers is Mary Minifie—one of the top portrait artists in the country; she also studied en plein air with re- nowned landscape painter Joseph McGurl as well as David Phillip Curtis, Richard Schmid, and Albert Above, Gate House at Pawtucket Falls Right, Pawtucket Falls