Mesmerism: North Coast Asylum curates

A fascination with bronze casting began for Maxine whilst studying Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art. It eventually led her to rural Suffolk on the east coast of the UK, where she now lives and works.

She has vivid childhood memories of traveling through landscapes which now have become reoccurring themes in her work. These remain resonant and meaningful to her to this day. Rolling Italian hills, architectural shapes, flat Romney Marshes, Cornish cliffs, urban materials, Suffolk skies.
Her surroundings are the basis for the shapes and structures in Maxine’s work. Making calm compositions is a response to the way that she lives. The pace of Suffolk life is slow. Through the use of abstract landscape interpretations, she plays with the ideas of layering shapes to describe her internal and external experiences.

Maxine’s journey has taken many turns to make it work, just like the windy roads of an Italian hillside. Putting, as most of us do, the need for practicalities before honouring her creative release. But, her recent diagnosis and subsequent months of treatment for breast cancer unblocked any doubts she has had about the need to be creating such work.

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