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"In my practice I employ various media and means to touch the nerve and glimpse at the mystery of being alive and connected to land and people across time. I try to evoke a sense of place through my paintings, collages, handmade paper, photography and artist's books. I try to notice what is vivid and link that with a sensual and well-crafted process."

Mary Heebner's studio is in Santa Barbara, California - visits and interviews by appointment. mary@maryheebner.com. http://www.instagram.com/maryheebner

AEGEAN,, 2026-27 Heebner's multi media tableau including collage, artists book Persephone Down Deep and hand-pigmented aluminum sculpture, all referencing Classical Aphrodite sculpture, and a wall-sized video montage of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA.

Bridging: Image & Word / 25 Years of Simplemente Maria Press, 1995-2020 98 page catalogue full color, index, essay by Danelle Moon, Head, UCSB Special Collections

Exhibition catalogue The Venus Paintings, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA with an essay by Dr Bruce Robertson, "Venus on Paper"

Through her imprint, simplemente maria press, Heebner creates limited edition fine art books with handmade paper, original text, artwork, letterpress. www.simplementemariapress.com

Heebner's artists books arew always derived from her studio and site-based work including drawings, photographs and paintings. All of her book projects and collages include paper she has made by hand.
The 2026 artists book MYTHOS QUARTET re-imagines four Greek myths in images and words. The book's images are derived from the CUT-UPS series of large handmade and pulp-painted collages. Her 2024 ARCTIC TRILOGY is a three book set exploring the landscape, ice, and vanishing tracks in the changing world in the Arctic. The 2019 artist's book is Prayer Flags & A Tale of Longing. Handwritten invocations to a distressed planet in the form of prayers to the elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Aether, are based upon traditional Tibetan prayer flags. It was featured in the 2021 IAPMA bulletin. Her 2017, INTIMACY: Drawing with light, Drawn from stone, 2017, features a suite of watermark drawings, with letterpress on recto and hand tinted with watercolor or graphite on verso. It is on display in Museo della Carta e della Filigrana in Fabriano, Italy, where she made ivory toned paper, 2015, complimented by ultramarine pigmented paper made at Dieu Donne NYC, 2015.

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Looking back: Cut-Up series of handmade and pulp painted paper collages. Who are we? Where do we come from ? Cut-up shapes from Cycladic, African, Mycenean, Upper paleolithis figures

Ledas Swan Dance 77" x 38", collage with handmade and pulp-painted paper. Leda's Swan Dance is the source for Book One of MYTHOS QUARTET

Triad of Naiads. 72" x 72" Collage with handmade, and pulp paintedpapers, cut out shapes based on Venus of Lespugue and Roman torsos and profiles

BrotherLove_Dioscuri. 80" x 62" Collage with handmade and pulp-painted cut-out shapes. Also the source for Book Two of MYTHOS QUARTET, reimagining the myth of Castor and Polydeuces.

Birdwoman over Cenote, 53" x 40" CUT-UP collage on Black Murillo and Stonehenge paper , handmade paper, paste-painted paper, and graphite wax/tissue, monotype fragment. Source: Pre-dynastic terra cotta 3250 BCE

MYTHOS QUARTET: edition 20 copies, images derived from four Cut-Up collages, original text reimagines four Greek myths, letterpress, handmade paper covers, and details in the collection. 10" x 5.5" x 6.5"

Thetis of the Wine-Dark Sea 50 x 38" Cut-Up collage, acrylic ink, graphite, handmade Sa paper, letterpress printed pattern on blue with white pigment border, drawing, Mediterranean Sea map, inspired Book Four of of Mythos Quartet series

Mary Heebner

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Looking back: Cut-Up series of handmade and pulp painted paper collages. Who are we? Where do we come from ? Cut-up shapes from Cycladic, African, Mycenean, Upper paleolithis figures

Ledas Swan Dance 77" x 38", collage with handmade and pulp-painted paper. Leda's Swan Dance is the source for Book One of MYTHOS QUARTET

Triad of Naiads. 72" x 72" Collage with handmade, and pulp paintedpapers, cut out shapes based on Venus of Lespugue and Roman torsos and profiles

BrotherLove_Dioscuri. 80" x 62" Collage with handmade and pulp-painted cut-out shapes. Also the source for Book Two of MYTHOS QUARTET, reimagining the myth of Castor and Polydeuces.

Birdwoman over Cenote, 53" x 40" CUT-UP collage on Black Murillo and Stonehenge paper , handmade paper, paste-painted paper, and graphite wax/tissue, monotype fragment. Source: Pre-dynastic terra cotta 3250 BCE

MYTHOS QUARTET: edition 20 copies, images derived from four Cut-Up collages, original text reimagines four Greek myths, letterpress, handmade paper covers, and details in the collection. 10" x 5.5" x 6.5"

Thetis of the Wine-Dark Sea 50 x 38" Cut-Up collage, acrylic ink, graphite, handmade Sa paper, letterpress printed pattern on blue with white pigment border, drawing, Mediterranean Sea map, inspired Book Four of of Mythos Quartet series

In Arctic Light-book 3 in ARCTIC TRILOGY, accordioin fold, imagery and text by Heebner Edition 15 copies, letterpress. 12" x 6" x 9"

Bacchus: VEILED-UNVEILED series. Collage on Khadi paper base, rose gampi, marbleized and handmade paoers, graphite, photo fragment, 39" x 39"

*Dionysus from VEILED-UNVEILED series. Collage on Khadi paper base, rose gampi, marbleized and handmade paoers, graphite, photo fragment, 39" x 39"

Member Galleries

Mary Heebner

Heebner_Venus_watermarkFabriano

Intimacy_bluewatermarkwithtext-11

Looking back: Cut-Up series of handmade and pulp painted paper collages. Who are we? Where do we come from ? Cut-up shapes from Cycladic, African, Mycenean, Upper paleolithis figures

Ledas Swan Dance 77" x 38", collage with handmade and pulp-painted paper. Leda's Swan Dance is the source for Book One of MYTHOS QUARTET

Triad of Naiads. 72" x 72" Collage with handmade, and pulp paintedpapers, cut out shapes based on Venus of Lespugue and Roman torsos and profiles

BrotherLove_Dioscuri. 80" x 62" Collage with handmade and pulp-painted cut-out shapes. Also the source for Book Two of MYTHOS QUARTET, reimagining the myth of Castor and Polydeuces.

Birdwoman over Cenote, 53" x 40" CUT-UP collage on Black Murillo and Stonehenge paper , handmade paper, paste-painted paper, and graphite wax/tissue, monotype fragment. Source: Pre-dynastic terra cotta 3250 BCE

MYTHOS QUARTET: edition 20 copies, images derived from four Cut-Up collages, original text reimagines four Greek myths, letterpress, handmade paper covers, and details in the collection. 10" x 5.5" x 6.5"

Thetis of the Wine-Dark Sea 50 x 38" Cut-Up collage, acrylic ink, graphite, handmade Sa paper, letterpress printed pattern on blue with white pigment border, drawing, Mediterranean Sea map, inspired Book Four of of Mythos Quartet series

In Arctic Light-book 3 in ARCTIC TRILOGY, accordioin fold, imagery and text by Heebner Edition 15 copies, letterpress. 12" x 6" x 9"

Bacchus: VEILED-UNVEILED series. Collage on Khadi paper base, rose gampi, marbleized and handmade paoers, graphite, photo fragment, 39" x 39"

*Dionysus from VEILED-UNVEILED series. Collage on Khadi paper base, rose gampi, marbleized and handmade paoers, graphite, photo fragment, 39" x 39"

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