Mary Vaste
Gillis

Mary Gillis completed her BA in both painting and art history at Florida State University and in Florence, Italy, where she was particularly moved by the works of Fra Angelico and how he communicated PRESENCE through his figures as well as the re-emergence of THE FEMININE in the art of that same period. Mary began exhibiting in 1980. In 1986, she completed her master's degree from JFKU in Orinda, California, in transpersonal counseling psychology.  Making art and studying consciousness are deeply intertwined for her, one informing the other.