Mal McCrea is a photographer, abstract painter, and mixed-media artist exploring repetitive and derivative patterns as they emerge throughout life and in nature. Her photography explores the overtly ordinary yet remarkable qualities of the natural world. As a painter, her work is about the experience and connection with the process through intuitive mark-making and the exploration of nature, and emotions. She has an MA from Kent State University, is an internationally published portrait photographer and college instructor, and teaches photography workshops at the Canton Museum of Art. Mal currently works from her studio in the Canton Arts District in Canton, Ohio.