MARY CAHALAN : PIXI ART
The Bubble that is Mary
By Lynda Cookson
It was amazing for me to discover that Mary Cahalan loves black and white studies. When I think of Mary, I think of myriads of colour and twinkly smiles, a bubble bouncing along, lightly touching the surface here and there to give you a taste of fun and friendliness. To further intrigue the bubble that is Mary, I discover that she is a trained nurse who concentrated her therapies for a few years, working with people with disabilities.
Finding out about Mary is like agreeing to join a game of hopscotch. We hopped throughout her happy life until I gave up on trying to maintain a chronological order and simply enjoyed the game with her! We began in the usual way of ‘when did it all begin?’ to which Mary replied: “Oh, when I was eight or ten years old, maybe twelve”. I wondered what had happened to nine and eleven in that quick four year span. She would create fine drawings of people featured in magazines and her proud father would hang them up in what Mary calls her first gallery. The door to the Cahalan home was always open to welcome visitors for a chat and a cuppa, so she was never short of gallery admirers.
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