Maria Barry

I have been teaching in Central Florida.

I have taught Watercolor classes for the Osceola Library System, at the Gallery in Kissimmee, in Clermont, and at Sam Flax in Orlando. 

I am self-taught.

Being self-taught, I started teaching the skills I have learned to my students, the way I would have liked to have been taught myself.  I was asked to teach at Stetson University in Celebration, Florida. 

Painting is a learned skill that a good teacher can enable.

I volunteer my time each year through their enrichment program, teaching watercolor classes and giving lectures. I also teach watercolor classes on a weekly basis at several adult communities. 

Being self-taught, I have witnessed that painting is a learned skill, and a good teacher can enable these skills in a person who might not have thought it possible.

Teaching while traveling.

Living my dream, I also teach several times a year on cruise ships on sea days, affording me travel I so love, taking me to exotic places, and inspiring others to paint through my classes.