ABOUT: Eighty year old Mary, a long-time bike enthusiast, is safely seated in her all-terrain wheelchair at her computer, dishing out designs to cheer bike riders on and on. "My bike tees keep me talking to others who still ride the trails and avenues and feel the wind in their hair. I hope many can join me and like my bike tees."
BIO: Mary Margaret is not a trained artist. She learned how to draw in the fifth grade by doodling in her notebooks while her teacher lectured. She never thought of herself as an artist, but continued to doodle. She'd like to say that these doodles were being saved and then sold for thousands of dollars, but that's not true. Dr. Mary, as she is sometimes referred to, went on to real life. After earning four college degrees and working tons of different jobs across the United States, everything from legal secretary to school bus driver, college professor to V.P. on Wall Street, partner in a software development firm, and home designer to name a few, she finally retired to a small town on the north coast of Oregon.
Her athletic tortured knees and back soon gave her a different lease on life and she turned in her roller skates and bicycle for her now more comfortable all-terrain wheelchair. She greatly misses her bike rides and the adventures that they brought, so back to doodling she went. Soon, her pencil, pen, and acrylic musings became actual art. Now, drawing on her computer she has gone back to include her love of bicycling by designing bike tee-shirts. From grandmas to toddlers, and tricycles to recumbent, mountain, competition and three-wheelers - all types of bikes. You name it, Dr. Mary can draw it. Sometimes, she may illustrate dynamic white bikes on black cloth. Other times, Dr. Mary draws cartoon of bike riders caught in amusing situations. She keeps her imagination alive by living through all of her drawings and still savors the thrill of her long-ago bike adventures.