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New England: Fleeting and Intimate Spaces

When I paint a space that touches both the interior and exterior world, I am shifting between both realms of what I can control: the paint that adorns the wall and the curtains that hang from the window; and what I cannot: the pounding of the rain and the wind shaking branches from a tree.

New England is a place tethered to sentimental traditions and architecture. However, the effects of time constantly bring in powerful seasonal change that works against holding on to something.

How can I engage with a set of unsentimental principles that regards the uncertainty of the future and unpredictable weather changes while also maintaining a psychological anchor to my home? My paintings are about navigating both feelings at the same time. An array of childhood and household objects which continue to be cherished and the reflective surface of my mirror looking to the outside world—pulling me outward—moving forward to whatever lies next.

Bio

Grace Maybury-McIntosh grew up on the north shores of Cape Cod and within the western mountains of Maine. Amongst the dunes of Sandwich and the panorama of distant blue mountains in Farmington, Grace remembers a constant overwhelming reaction to the natural scapes that felt just out of her reach. Painting from observation is symbiotic to describing her overwhelming reaction to nature. Grace paints year-round outside. When the cold becomes truly unbearable, she positions her easel against the window of her studio and paints her view. Grace currently maintains a studio practice between Farmington, Portland, and Sandwich Massachusetts.