I had a very warm opening night of my show at the National Glass Centre with a great introduction to my presentation by Graeme Thompson the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Media at Sunderland University.  It brought me to tears, I could hardly talk for five minutes…

Some of the children I had painted and incorporated into the show were there and it was a lot of fun seeing them next to their portraits. They came back on Sunday to the NGC and had lots of fun, especially with the fabulously colored marbles in the gift shop. I took a video of them, obviously I thought I had a photo camera in my hand…

I am off to my home town of Sunderland for a show that I am very excited about that was inspired by the Seafront where I spent so much time in my youth. Here is an excerpt from a writing by the Art critique Suzanne Brancaccio .
“Mason’s mixed-media pieces are fictional narratives composed of autobiographical elements that attempt to integrate her past and her present.  The works on view represent an accumulation of her influences in her life and career, at different times and in different places, joining the long stretch between her life in Sunderland and her life in New York.  By bringing her dramatic, quirky, and stylish visitors to the seafronts of Whitburn, Seaburn, and Roker, Mason addresses her nostalgia for her childhood in Northern England and the temporality of experience.”