Mary Visser

MARY VISSER (b. 1971)

Cape Town, South Africa

BIOGRAPHY

Mary Visser is a Cape Town-based visual artist known for her large-scale gestural paintings that merge abstraction and figuration. Drawing from post-war American abstraction, German Expressionism, and the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, her work embraces humour, awkwardness, and risk.

She holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Rhodes University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art from the University of Cape Town. Her work is represented in local and international collections, including the University of Cape Town, Nando’s, HSBC Bank, and the Constitutional Court of South Africa.