Hold On Ink and Color Pencil on Obonai Paper Framed Size 9" x 9" Click image to enlarge $900.00

Fireflies ! #5 Original Ink, Colored Pencil and Gold Leaf on Obonai Paper Framed Size 17" x 17" Click image to enlarge $4,800.00

Suite: Autumn Original Ink and 23kt. Red Gold Leaf on India Silk Paper Framed Size 5.00" x 5.50" Click image to enlarge $600.00

Sunlit Original Ink and Gold Leaf on Ichimatsu Paper Framed Size 14" x 20" Click image to enlarge $2,150.00

Guarding God's Acre Original Ink, Colored Pencil, Bronze Ink and Shell Silver on Unryu Paper Framed Size 21" x 21" Click image to enlarge $4,500.00

Snowfall - SOLD Original Ink, Colored Pencil and Shell Silver on White Unryu Paper Framed Size 5.75" x 6.25" Click image to enlarge $650.00

Mary Serfass

     Pen and ink artist Mary Serfass was born in New York City and grew up in Palmerton, Pennsylvania.  She received a B.A. in Fine Art from Penn State University in 1978.  While pen and ink has remained her medium of choice, she has also worked in watercolor, oil, stone lithography and etching.

     Images are rendered in black and white, using the finest technical pens available.  Color is sometimes added via colored pencil, watercolor, or both.  Some drawings are enhanced with 23 karat gold leaf, 12 karat white gold leaf, copper leaf or palladium leaf. Serfass' signature style includes extending parts of the image onto the surrounding mat.  A single drawing may take hundreds of hours to complete.

     Her work has been described as elegant and uplifting.  A few written quotes: "...[Serfass] shows her command of her medium as well as her ability to draw, a skill not to be taken lightly."  "With their firmness yet delicacy of expression,...they powerfully evoke the natural world that inspired the artist."

     The drawings of Mary Serfass are included in many collections, both private and public throughout the U.S., Europe and South America.  In 2004, two of her mixed media drawings were recently part of the World Exhibition of Miniatures, held at the Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.  In 2008, two more of her works were selected for the World Exhibition of Miniatures, held this time in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia.  She also recently received 2nd place in collage/ mixed media in the MPSGS 76th annual International Miniature Exhibition in Washington, DC

Robert Paul Galleries is proud to be chosen to show the works of American artist Mary Serfass.