Mary Ann Halliburton has been drawing and painting since the age of 12, when she first exhibited her work while living in the Philippines. Currently she has been working with acrylics on abstract landscapes of the Stanford foothills, canyons of the West and on palm trees. The latter were a symbolic piece of the landscape during her youth in Southern California and the Philippines.
Halliburton works in acrylics, often using a very thin pigment that resembles watercolor. She has explored the interplay and the depth of color in the tradition of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Lewis, and Peter Jenkins. Halliburton studied art at UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, where she participated in Nathan Oliviera's classes. Her paintings are in collections throughout this country and in Europe.
In the Bay Area, Mary Ann has exhibited her work at several sites at Stanford including the Faculty Club, at UC Berkeley, Angelico Fine Arts in Menlo Park, and at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. She has shown in San Francisco at the O'Hara Gallery and the San Francisco Artists' cooperative.
