Maggi Squire

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community artwork

About Maggi Squire

'Happiness' by Maggi Squire - Sculpture Human form Recycled materials maggie squire, recycled art, community art, carnival art, plastic bags,

Art Human form Sculpture by Maggi Squire'Happiness'Buy Art

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Original 'happiness' dancing figures made at Womad festival 2002 for the procession. Many other similar figures have been made for other events since then, often many others joining in with the making.

maggie squire, recycled art, community art, carnival art, plastic bags,

About Maggi Squire

... the world is a complex place, often full of fears on a very personal level as well as world scale. Fear, anger and sorrow can be deep… so maybe we have to go deep into understanding that we also have deep wonder, humour and kindness within our selves. We are good at focusing on failures and sometimes failure is an important key to learning, eventually, when I go deep into the failure I discover it’s often my greatest strength...well, I sort of have to turn it upside down or inside out or even outside in but it seems to work. It just takes me a long time to figure it out!

My titles matter to me… they hold the viewing point of each painting.

I use raw earth collected from the side of roads and on walks as my paint and mix it with glue and water. I use acrylics if I want other colours.
Devon is rich with different earth colours. I have noticed that earth colours are the colours of peoples skin from all the nations of the world. For me the earth paint is a metaphor and a reminder that we are people of earth
We are earth-kind… well a bit more of the kind would be good!

Thank you for looking.

information and images of my community art and other websites:
www.maggiart.com:
www.artuk.com/artists/maggisquire

My childhood experience of going to live in rural India when I was young had an enormous impact on my way of seeing and being in the world. My work is about the Earth...and people of earth, about how we can be aware of its deep problems and its deep wonders. Life is such a range of emotions and experience and sometimes painting and making sculpture and dance puts it right! Over the years I have done a lot of art and dance projects and workshops in schools and communities and carnivals and festivals. This has stretched my work to doing very large pieces and inclusive ideas. In my more personal work I express a deeper part of myself using earth as my underlying material.

dare i by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint & acrylic

oh yes, he nose by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

like a bird by Maggi Squire - Painting earth and acrylic

lets just go by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

man-Kind by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

'oooh' by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

are you ready by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

father and child by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

longing for more by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

simply glow by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

free to be by Maggi Squire - Painting Mixed Media

he he he, by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint and acrylic on canvas

Earth Shield by Maggi Squire - Painting earth paint on calico

Going Green by Maggi Squire - Painting earth, acrylic and collage

dance mask by Maggi Squire - Sculpture Human form mixed media

sheep on the moor by Maggi Squire - Painting Mixed Media

singing together by Maggi Squire - Painting Acrylic on canvas

walking with leapard in the park by Maggi Squire - Painting Mixed Media

'Happiness' by Maggi Squire - Sculpture Human form Recycled materials maggie squire, recycled art, community art, carnival art, plastic bags,

Hope Shield by Maggi Squire - Painting Human form Mixed Media natural materials, recycled, earth paint,

Earth Shield by Maggi Squire - Painting Human form Mixed Media earth paint, natural material,

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