{"id":996,"date":"2025-09-21T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:22:26","slug":"mary-ahern-artist-art-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/mary-ahern-artist-art-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ahern Artist &#8211; Art Naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #cc3333;\">Art Blog<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #5b5200;\">My Art Starts In The Garden: Musings on my Life as an Artist<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #5b5200;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>My Art is inspired by the gardens surrounding my studio. There is a complexity to my work in both the spiritual and technical parts of my mind. Enjoy this meandering journey with me. The highs, the lows, inspiration, ideas, techniques and general musings about the complicated creative life of an Artist.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Naturally, a blog about Musings of Life as an Artist.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/mary-ahern-artist-art-blog\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-artist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art Naturally, Musings of a Life as an Artist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Art Naturally is an Art Blog containing the musings of a life as an Artist.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/mary-ahern-artist-art-blog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Art Naturally, Musings of a Life as an Artist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Art Naturally is an Art Blog containing the musings of a life as an Artist.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/mary-ahern-artist-art-blog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Art Naturally\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-21T13:00:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-23T17:22:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mary Ahern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mary Ahern\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.maryahernartist.com\\\/art-blog\\\/mary-ahern-artist-art-blog\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.maryahernartist.com\\\/art-blog\\\/mary-ahern-artist-art-blog\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mary Ahern\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.maryahernartist.com\\\/art-blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7f5ed8309ff99d121288dc7d5dcc28b\"},\"headline\":\"Mary Ahern Artist &#8211; 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