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Created during Mary’s disciplined “picture-a-day” practice in the isolating months of Covid, Lifting the Day distils the emotional weather of that period into a single radiant field. The work rises in a blaze of chromatic urgency—scarlets, embers, and unexpected glints of turquoise—suggesting the stubborn persistence of vitality even when the world contracts around us. Its shifting fragments hover between abstraction and emotional notation, offering a visual invocation of what Mary’s book captured in words: the daily act of finding light, however small, and hauling the day upward with colour.
Mary Collis is a Kenyan artist known for her fearless use of colour and her energetic, gestural approach to painting. Working between landscape, abstraction and memory, she builds layers that feel both atmospheric and immediate. Her work reflects decades of experimentation, an instinctive sense of composition, and a deep connection to place.
