This is a 3″x4″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ and are painted lilac blue.
This painting is $40 and is available HERE.

Last night while my children lay in bed and I sat on the little stool in their room reading them the book ‘Witches’ by Roald Dahl, two teenagers were struck and killed by a transit train just blocks from our house.
The juxtaposition of two children safely tucked into bed while only blocks away two lay under tarps was not lost on me.
Two young lives gone, just like that
Today I will hold my babies a little tighter and a little longer when I think of you.
I dedicate this painting to the girl and boy who died. I feel so sad for their families and for the driver of that train.

This is a 6″x6″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise.
This painting is $70 and is available HERE.

When I was growing up, I had two framed prints on my wall. They were old, even when I got them, with beautiful gold frames. I am thinking they are from around the 20’s. The were of a young girl and a harlequin in a beautiful garden at night.

I was never sure which picture was first and which one was second. I would lie in my bed and look at these paintings making up stories about what was happening in each picture.
The story would change, I would get confused: Why does he have his mask on in this one and off in the other? why does he look sad? Is he waiting for her or did she just leave him? My story was never complete before sleep would take me.

Perhaps this is why I have a fascination with Harlequins.
Perhaps this is why I always paint first and then make up the story of what is happening in the painting afterward. I am reading my subconscious. Maybe I am just trying to justify my painting by giving it a story.

I still have these framed prints hanging next to my bed but I can be honest, there is seldom a time when I lie in bed looking at them. One weekend morning, while still asleep, Imogen, who is often in my bed by the morning, woke me by saying, “That part looks like a horses head’. She had found an optical illusion within the print.
It made me smile because she must have been lying in bed looking at these prints, just as I did. Two little girls, 30 years apart staring at the Harlequin and his love. It makes me wonder if there was a little girl before me that had done the same thing.

This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise.
This painting is $75 and is SOLD

The Old Owl is wise, but not a comfort
He seems to speak in riddles
And answers my questions with more questions
He was rather annoying, to be honest
“My Mother has sent me here to see if you can help me sleep”, I implore him.
He turns his head away from me and shrugs.
“Why would you want to sleep at this time of day?”

maria@mariapacewynters.com

Come out and see my art this month and support the local art scene in Edmonton!

THE NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Nov 4- 27, 2010
Reception: Thursday, November 18, 5-7 PM

“Just living is not enough”, said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower”.
Hans Christian Anderson

This show features brand new paintings by myself and Deborah Cardinal,
whom I mentored this year at The Nina Haggerty Centre.
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri: 10-2 PM
Thursday 4:30- 8 PM
Sat: 1-3 PM
ALSO…
THE VARSCONA THEATRE LOBBY
NOVEMBER 3- 22, 2010
My paintings will be displayed in the Varscona lobby for the run of Shadow Theatre’s production of WOMEN WHO STEAL by Carter Lewis
When frustrated suburban housewife Peggy confronts Karen, an eccentric businesswoman who just happens to have slept with Peggy’s husband, this mismatched duo is sent careening through a wild night of fighting, flirting, gunfire and fishing.

With time for a little girl talk as well. And if luck is on their side there might some well earned retribution before the evening is over. A fun-filled Thelma & Louise for the stage.

“Put down those remotes, people, you’ve got to see this!

– Austin Chronicle

Show Times
All evening shows start at
7:30pm
All matinees start at
2:00pm

Shadow Theatre
10329 83rd Avenue, Edmonton
TEL: (780) 434-5564
shadowtheatre@interbaun.com

maria@mariapacewynters.com

This is a 6 “x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” and are painted turquoise.
This painting is $110 +shipping and is available HERE.

I have missed painting my red head.

maria@mariapacewynters.com

This is a 5″x7″ mixed media painting on wood. It is 1.5″ deep and the sides are painted red.
Available HERE

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”
Picasso

Ahhh, Picasso, you were so smart.

maria@mariapacewynters.com

Here are the three images I am considering for the November give away !

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Imogen Harlequin

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Lilly Williams, alias “Harrington” was a housekeeper arrested for ‘suspicion’ in 1901. Her mugshot is part of a traveling exhibit called Arresting Images through The OOP Museusm.
I don’t know, looking at mugshots of people from the past just sparks my curiosity. There is so much that they look like they want to say. Their eyes haunt me.
This is a 4″x8″ x4″ 3-D mixed media canvas painting.
It is $95 + shipping and is available HERE.

This is a mixed media diptych on canvas. The sides are painted electric blue and 1.5″ deep.
This painting is $700 and is available HERE

The last painting for my show at The Nina Haggerty Centre For The Arts …it is being hung at this very moment.
Very Excited!

Tomorrow I drop paintings off at The Varscona for my show there. Maybe I should try to stagger my shows a little more in the future! Phew!