Mary Lou Corn has been painting professionally for the past forty-five years with watercolor.  A native born Missourian, she lives and works in a naturally beautiful environment, surrounded by woods and hills.  Her home and studio are in St. James, Missouri and along with her sculpture garden are legendary for unusual beauty and craftsmanship.

Mary Lou majored in art at William Woods College, in Fulton, MO. She planned to study art beyond that experience, namely at the Art Institute of Chicago, but like many women of her generation she opted for marriage and family, and postponed her serious career.  As her children grew older, her return to painting began, and since the 1960’s she has been honing her methods and style.  She has studied with several noted American watercolorists such as Stephen Quiller and Nina Engle.

Her paintings are in the realist style, hand-drawn without the use of slide projectors, computers or digital enhancements.  Her paintings show exquisite attention to difficult details, like complex reflections and intricate subject matter.  Her vivid color is a trademark, as are her beautifully designed still-life works.  She also paints landscapes of the Ozarks, of the Western  National Parks, and the Pacific Coast.

Mary Lou Corn is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, the Missouri and  Kansas Watercolor societies, and of the Honor Society of Watercolor, USA. She has been in national juried shows for the past two decades, and has collectors all over the United States.  In August of 2005, she was accepted as a signature member of the National Watercolor Society.  Her painting, Manhattan Glass, made the National Watercolor Society show in Los Angeles, CA to finalize her membership. This was the third year she had paintings in that national show, one of the two most prestigious in the USA. In 2006, she had two watercolors accepted into Watercolor, USA, and one into the Regional Watercolor show of the Kansas Watercolor Society.

In 2003, a retrospective show for her 75th b birthday provided a biography in paintings. Over 108 paintings were on display, showing the prolific amount of work accomplished, as thousands of paintings were considered, just from collections here in southern Missouri. 

Since the retrospective of 2003, she has introduced Giclee prints of her originals, which are in limited supply and signed by the artist.  This website is continuously updated as more and more prints are made, and also as new originals are created.