Artist Martha Jo Mahoney’s canvas reflects her travels across the Americas, the Far East as well as Florida landscapes where she grew up.  Mahoney works with vivid colors in oil, acrylic, chalk and graphite on canvas and paper in a style influenced by modern American “realist expressionist” painters such as Mitchell, Diebenkorn and DeKooning. “Working quickly, continuously layering paint and medium down and pushing it around with brush or hands, keeping no area sacred…always baiting accidents, playing with the medium and striving to achieve a balance between accident and control.  My images are derived from nature and remembered feelings of the landscapes from my travels and home.”

After studying Fine Arts at the University of Florida with the likes of Hiram Williams and Lenny Kesl, she moved to the northeast where she developed her style of painting around Chaddsford, Pa, Princeton, NJ and the New York area.  Martha has returned to Central Florida where she works out of her studio and continues her exploration of painting. Mahoney’s paintings have been in many of the leading art festivals across the Northeast and Florida as well as private collections. Her work can be seen at Miller Gallery, 2715 Erie Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio and Gallery M., 238 Park Avenue North, Winter Park, Florida.      Her studio is 1600 Alden St., Orlando, Fl.  She is a member of Crealde Arts, Maitland Art Center and Orlando Museum of Arts.