Epiphany Art
Mary Pye
Mary Pye is a London-based oil painter — a Slade School of Fine Art graduate — whose large, luminous canvases explore stillness, trust and the threshold between the visible and the unseen.
Mediums: Oil on canvas
Themes: Stillness · Trust · Light · Threshold · The Annunciation
Location: London & North Lincolnshire, UK
Available for all types of commissions
About Mary
Mary Pye studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, graduating in 2025. During her time there, her practice underwent a decisive transformation: painting became a deeper spiritual and personal commitment — a daily practice of loving attention and discipline.
Studio work, community life, hiking, monastic retreats and a growing attentiveness to the world have all drawn her toward a quieter, slower way of working. Painting reveals itself gradually, rather than being forced toward completion.
Mary works between London and North Lincolnshire.
In their own words
"Layering pigments, laying them down, shifting them from one part of the surface to another, sometimes withdrawing them — here and there allowing them to settle and resettle over time — each work emerges through a slow and repetitive rhythm of deposition and erosion.
"With respect for my materials, I am asked to listen closely to what arrives on the canvas, and what wants to remain and what asks to stay unseen.
"Perception is naturally sharpened through my sustained presence with the work, so I do not need to begin with a rigid plan or predetermined form. Painting is a meditative process for me. It is my whispered conversation between presence and discovery, between what can be seen with the human eye and what is unseen within the human spirit, between silence and light and matter. Each meet and intertwines in their own time, as they come."
Faith and the creative act
For Mary Pye, faith isn't a theme applied to the surface of her work, it's the inner foundation from which she works, the ground she stands on in the studio. She's never experienced faith as separate from painting. Her practice is one of listening: attending to the world with love and humility. She allows painting to be a form of prayer — a conversation between presence and discovery, between silence and light.
Selected works
