New Works by Mason Owens

at Common Ground Cafe

Website /// Instagram /// mason.w.owens@gmail.com

Works on Display (corresponding to numbered pushpins)

  1. “a good hike in maine” egg tempera on panel, 8in x 8in, 2024, $1,000

  2. “went snorkling, if not back by 9:30, call the coast guard :)” egg tempera on panel, 8in x 6in, 2025, $800

  3. “a place in my mind between greece and maine” egg tempera on panel, 10in x 8in, 2024, $1,200

  4. “paul’s little blue room”  egg tempera on panel, 8in x 8in, 2025, $1000

  5. “the baron in the trees” egg tempera on panel, 10in x 8in, 2024, $1200

  6. “we got 16 feet but we needed 6 more” egg tempera on panel, 8in x 6in, 2025, $800

  7. “the cat and I waiting for breakfast” egg tempera on panel, 8in x 8in, 2024, $1000

  8. “birthday dinner”  egg tempera on panel, 10in x 8in, 2025, $1200

  9. “wicker and web”  egg tempera on panel, 8in x 8in, 2024, $1000

  10. “sleeping with the window open” egg tempera on panel, 8in x 8in, 2025, $1000

  11. “the stars were inside that morning” egg tempera on panel, 48in x 36in, 2025, $8000

  12. “the field across the street” egg tempera on panel, 8in x 8in, 2025, $1000

Artist Statement

I’m particularly drawn to experiences that I share with friends and loved ones, and those that are imbued with a warm sense of nostalgia, humor, or childlike curiosity. Those moments persist in my memory and act as the initial inspiration for many paintings.  Through the course of developing a work I often end up changing the elements completely. With a playful trial and error mentality, I will paint over sections and scratch others.  I will pursue interesting lighting, a particular landscape, or add narrative elements and objects from other moments. I will change colors and characters until I feel the painting more truthfully translates the magic of the original inspiration, despite sometimes having less in common with it in reality.  Ultimately I feel like I am making paintings for the friends and family who are depicted in them, or those who are familiar with the places, objects, and sentiment that is involved. My paintings are journal-like objects that visualize moments I cherish and are meant to share a familial bond that is created through shared experience.

Artist Bio

I am a multidisciplinary artist working in Baltimore, MD. I received my BFA from the University of the Arts in 2013 and studied abroad at The Glasgow School of Art, in Glasgow, Scotland.  After college I completed Maryland's Beginner Farmer Training Program and worked as a farmer, gardener, or landscaper for the next seven years.  In my free time throughout this period, I slowly developed an art practice focused on drawing and painting.  In 2021, I began working with egg tempera, finding its naturalness and beauty an apt extension of my previous interests, and have continued using it exclusively.