For 25 years painting has dominated the world of Marise Maas, as she continues in her chase to capture beauty within the ordinary. The act of painting has become her daily medication helping to douse feelings of worry or concern, as she filters and processes the many things that capture and hold her attention in the everyday.
The appeal of Maas’ work lies in their admission that life, for the most part, happens within the rather uneventful ordinariness of daily routines and interactions; the bath is run, the phone is answered, the light bulb is changed. It is while surrounded by these small things that the greater highs and lows of life unfold.
Flinders Lane Gallery
19 April to 7 May, 2016
Melbourne
Dangled, 2015, oil on canvas, 150 x 200cm
Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
