ABOUT MAUREEN

Maureen C. Berry, photographer, standing in the doorway of a mud and stick home in Masai Mara Camp, Kenya, wearing pale green and tan safari clothes, holding an iPhone in her left hand and a Nikon Camera around her neck.

“My deep respect for the natural world is the essence of my art.”

Maureen C. Berry

 
 

Kentucky-based Maureen C. Berry turned to art after life-threatening cancer in 2019 when she was fifty-seven.

She found her voice by drawing, painting, and exploring 2D media to support ocean and plastic pollution awareness. She’s traveled to five continents and twenty-eight countries worldwide to snow ski, snorkel, hike, and sightsee. Her experiences influence her artistic style; her paintings lean toward realism yet are sometimes whimsical. Her black and white photography is influenced by nature photographers Ansel Adams and Clyde Butcher, and her color images by travel photography masters Art Wolfe, Christina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen, and Richard Bernabe.

Her upcoming solo art exhibition, Wild African Adventures in Art, is an immersive journey with a mix of eighty pieces of photography, watercolors, ink, and a film, showcasing the majesty and awe-inspiring world of animal conservation and life in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. This six-week exhibition is hosted by the Anne P. Baker Gallery at Glema Center for the Arts in Madisonville, Kentucky, from April 12 to May 16, 2024.

She writes the Substack newsletter pARTake: Art, books, food, and middle-aged badassery. She wrote the cookbook Salmon From Market To Plate: When You Want to Eat Salmon That Is Good for You and the Oceans and Midlife Cancer Crisis. She is writing her memoir, HUNGRY. To learn more about Maureen’s podcast Green Fish Blue Oceans, its complementary speaking program, and more information, please visit www.maureencberry.com.

When she’s not in her studio, you can find Maureen at the local arboretum with Cooper, her wire fox terrier, or kayaking on the lake.