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Undaunted Spirits
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Dr. Baures research Undaunted
Spirits – Portraits of Recovery from Trauma was
published in 1994 by Charles Press. In 1996 she contacted
Oscar winning film makers Cambridge Documentary Films
and together they worked on a documentary - Strong
at the Broken Places- Turning Trauma into Recovery.
In 1992 toward the end of her doctoral work, to escape
the wordy, cerebral side of school, Mary Baures took
night classes at Montserrat College of Art.
The landscape of her paintings mirrors her writing
on trauma recovery. Both are worlds of magical transformations
where vivid and connecting things emerge from dark
backgrounds. The forces that comfort and support
are animal guides and winged spirits. Bulls, lions
and polar bears are tenderly entwined with people
lending them strength and agility while angels play
banjos and dogs guard the moonlit landscape from
rooftops.
Her paintings have been shown in numerous places
around the North Shore of Boston. In 2004 Ditto
Editions of Marblehead
started making museum quality prints of Baures paintings.
Eight, signed, limited edition prints are available
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