Maud Bryt

Otis

Website admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:17:00 -0800

These paintings are based on my experience of my husband's family's home in the Berkshire Mountains. I made most of them a few years ago, and am returning to the subject now while reading Remembrance of Things Past which is proving to be great inspiration-- can't believe I haven't read it until now.

News: I just found out that I will have a show of some of these and new paintings inspired by Otis for a month this summer at Sanford Smith Fine Art in Great Barrington, MA, 13 Railroad Street. The opening will be July 24th-- please join us! I will post an invitation as the plans firm up.

Spirit Paintings

Website admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:10:12 -0800

A selection of these paintings is on view at The Artful Sol gallery in Vail, Colorado. The rest can be viewed in the studio by appointment.

Black 2008

Website admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:55:20 -0800

After painting so many beach scenes these past few years, I yearned for darkness and the softness of black.

Drawings

Website admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:54:24 -0800

Coming from photography, as I do, I've learned to draw on my own to a large extent, and in different ways depending on where I am, what I have at hand, and what feels right. I've picked up valuable lessons from various painting instructors-- mostly Sharon Sprung and Lorraine Shemesh at National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts in New York. I just completed a two-week drawing intensive with Graham Nickson at The New York Studio School. It was great-- 12 hour days, drew big, learned a lot. Now I am continuing my drawing studies at the NYSS with John Lees and Ron Milewicz. Here's a VIDEO I made of a week's worth of drawings of an apple.

Memory: Nantucket

Website admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:51:44 -0800

Exhibited at the Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket Island, August 10-17 2007 and Summer 2008.

Sand and salt, dirt roads, dunes, and family. These paintings are based on my family's photographs from our summers at Wauwinet from the 1960's-80's.

Backyard Barbeque

Website admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:30:38 -0800

These paintings are based on a short length of 8mm film from the home movies of a friend, from 1966. When I saw it, I loved the deep shadows, sunlit squares of grass, and the outfits and attitudes of the family members and friends. It made me think of growing up, and of all the adult conversations we overhear when we're 12 or 14.

Color Circles

Website admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:32 -0800

People

Website admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:26:13 -0700

Interiors

Website admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:18:32 -0700

Landscape

Website admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:04:52 -0700