Maggie Quinn Art – Spring Garden of Artists on Chaleur Bay

From 2014 to 2024
During the month of May
Art along Chaleur Bay

Art Day 3 – Wednesday May 3 2023

I’ve been preparing my art for this festival since sometime in April, deciding what I’d be working on this year, making sketches for the video we are working on and gathering material for the sculpture component.

The overall theme is still Spring Garden of Art & Artists. This year I am venturing out into the water and including seaweed, whether as a mulch or a thriving plant. Either or both would be just fine I think.

I began the sculpture on Monday using mostly recycled material I’ve been saving over the past few years. I’m happy to have finally found the right idea. Hopefully it will work. I continued working on it most of yesterday and did a bit of research as little ideas presented themselves, a typical process in my art-making. Today I did a bit of research on a woman sculptor I relate to, Eva Hesse. She died at a fairly young age and I’ve never seen any of her actual work. Pictures of sculpture don’t work well for me. I need to see it in the round.

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    A little over a year later I try to recall what sculpture I was working on then. Ah yes, the grape vine circles, the knotted recycled fabric and the cedar trees. Well that piece kind of fizzled out. Happens sometimes. I guess it had to do with weather and since I was working outside … Then bug season began early. Ah well … I continued with the painting part, inside, out of the rain, behind bug screens working on them all month before realizing it was all just not coming together well. A month of work and nothing much accomplished. The video did not materialize since there was no worthwhile content to work on. I plodded on into the summer, putting into storage all those pieces I worked on in May and by mid-June was well into my next series. These would eventually be part of my November exhibit, entitled ‘Don’t Forget You’re Human’. A video was made around this group, all small acrylic paintings 8″x10″ and 12″x12″. I intend to post them in a gallery on this site.

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Maggie here … waiting … waiting … who wants to speak first? Maggie is listening.