When she moved to Pakistan with her husband, artist Mary Lou Crerar had thought that her inability to speak Urdu was going to be a problem. But the main problem turned out to be culture. A sixty year old Canadian woman could not just get into her car and drive out to an area to paint by herself. Fortunately, a group of Pakistani women who had been educated abroad helped her. She was able to paint the Himalayas. Every painting has a story to go with it and this book tells those stories. It includes her her paintings and photographs of Pakistan.
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Mary Lou Crerar had a long and distinguished career as an artist, painting landscapes in oils, acrylics, watercolours and Japanese sumi-e. She attended the Vancouver School of Art Design, studying with the artist, Molly Bobak. In Toronto, Ontario she studied Sumi-e, the art of Japanese brush painting, with Kaz Hamasaki and Priest Tanahashi and her Sumi-e paintings of Banff were accepted in the Academy of Sumi-e in Osaka, Japan. Her paintings have been displayed in galleries and shows in Japan, the U.S.A. and across Canada from Victoria B.C. to Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Her books include "Sketchbook of the Rocky Mountains", "West Coast Sketchbook" and "Journal of Alien #25: A Painter in Pakistan". As well, her writing has been published in many chapbooks. (Portrait photograph by Denise Bull)