Since 1990, Mary Anne Lipousky-Butikas has been
working exclusively in watercolor.  Open to diversity
in both genre and style, she actively creates
watercolors of vintage autos, country images, still
lifes, botanicals and cartoon art for children.   

Butikas has been painting classic cars in watercolor
since 1996.  For Butikas, "These three dimensional
rolling art forms of the past represent the ultimate
paragon in automotive design.  Massive chrome grills
and convex surfaces are an excellent conduit for
lighting effects that capture and create distortion of
reflected imagery."  

Personal experiences and memories of farm life have
always been the source of inspiration behind many of
her country, botanical and still life images.  As
Butikas describes, "they are experiences that have
imbued themselves in my spirit forever and elicit
memories of a time that was less complicated."  It is
her belief that a chosen subject matter does not have
to be anything extraordinary and feels it has more of
an impact when the subject is simple and commonplace.
She loves "showing the beauty in the ordinary and the
transcendent beauty that comes with time, age and the
essential connection with life and the human touch."  

Along with the aforementioned designs, her interests
are subdivided by the whimsical and realistic.
Butikas  has created several lines of cartoon art for
children as well as symbolic watercolors and clock
designs, each of which "allow for the constraints of
realism to become secondary."  Her metaphorical
designs always incorporate humor and movement but
moreover,  Butikas describes it is as an "unbridled
freedom to manipulate space, color, subject and
design."

Butikas is a Signature Member of the Missouri
Watercolor Society and exhibited work at the Winston
Churchill Memorial and Library for the 2004 and 2005
Missouri National Exhibitions.  She is a juried member
of the Illinois Artisans Program and participated in
the 2005 Members Invitational Exhibition in Chicago.
Her watercolors, Harley Davidson and Chicago Theater,
were juried into the Transparent Watercolor Society of
 America for the 26th and 29th National Watercolor
Exhibitions.  Her work has been licensed for use on
fabric and can be seen on the 2006 Collector's Series
wine label at Les Bourgeois Winery.   Butikas has been
published by Watercolor Studio and her watercolor,
Classic Ford #2 can be seen in North Light Books'
Splash 6.

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