Maggi Squire

Biography

My childhood experience of going to live in rural India when I was 8 years old  had an enormous impact on my way of seeing the world. My work is intuitive, I just start and see what comes sometimes its completed very quickly and sometimes it developes and changes over long stretches of time mapping changes that are happening within myself through changes of colour, shape and subjects, its about being aware of deep problems and deep wonders. Life is such a range of emotions and experience and sometimes painting and making sculpture and figures small and large and dance puts it right! Over the years I have done a lot of art and dance projects and workshops in schools and communities, carnivals and festivals. This has stretched my work to doing very large pieces and inclusive ideas.

In my more personal work I often use earth as my paint, the ground of my being that underlyes life and after large work small detailed work brings me back to my own self and now i love to do very small figures that are like touch stones of a particular expression or feeling, something magical about small things.

I am intersted in myth, story and movement literally and metaphorically.and love a touch of humour.