{"id":996,"date":"2026-07-12T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:29:44","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":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #cc3333;\">Art Naturally<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #5b5200;\">A Multi-Disciplinary Creative Life<br \/><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #5b5200;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Musings on a life spent making things across paint, pixels, film, installation, and soil. My work moves between the technical and the spiritual, the deliberate and the intuitive, with the garden as one recurring thread among many. Here you&#8217;ll find the highs, the lows, half-formed ideas, working techniques, and the general mess of a complicated creative life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #5b5200;\"><br \/><\/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 v28.2 - 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=\"2026-07-12T21:03:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-15T21:29:44+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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