By Cassie Rief in Featured Artists > Oil Paintings Oil painter Mary Erickson has been creating beautiful nature scenes full-time since 1993. Her studios in Venice, FL and Marshville, NC pay homage to her lifelong passion, devotion and respect for marine environs and shorebirds. Preferring to paint en plein air, many of Mary’s days begin on location before sunrise and end after sunset. Then, using studies, sketches and visual memory, Mary also develops studio paintings that further clarify…