Mary Alayne Thomas creates luminous paintings that blur the boundary between memory, imagination, and the natural world. Raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico by two working artists and now living in Portland, Oregon, her work is influenced by a lifetime of observing wildlife and landscapes with curiosity. Influenced by the Golden Age of illustration and created through a distinctive layering of watercolor and encaustic, her paintings possess an ethereal softness that feels timeless and dreamlike.

Animals move through her compositions not simply as subjects, but as companions and symbols of our connection to the wild. Every fox, owl, tiger, bear, and bird invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and rediscover with wonder.