Thinkers and Dreamers
For her 2016 show at Calloway Fine Art and Consulting, Maud created artworks inspired by such authors as Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Henry James, Stella Gibbons, Charlotte Bronte, Vita Sackville-West, and Oscar Wilde. Her works particularly feature strong women from literature.
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Oil on Canvas, 48 x 60″, 2016 The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go. -Emily Bronte, "The Night is Darkening Around Me"
Oil on Panel, 12 x 16", 2016 Shy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow, Swift as the swallow along the river’s light Circleting the surface to meet his mirrored winglets, Fleeter she seems in her stay than in her flight. -George Meredith, "Love in the Valley" Available for Purchase:
Oil on Panel, 16 x 20", 2016 ‘Were you happy when you painted these pictures?’ asked Mr.Rochester presently. ‘I was absorbed, sir: yes, and I was happy. To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known.’ ‘That is not saying much. Your pleasures, by your own account, have been few; but I daresay you did exist in a kind of artist’s dreamland while you blent and arranged these strange tints.' -Charlotte Brontë, "Jane Eyre"
Oil on Panel, 8 x 10", 2016 Gwendolen: I had no idea there were any flowers in the country. Cecily: Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London. -Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Oil on Panel, 16 x 12", 2016 Click to read the quote that inspired this painting, and for purchasing info:
Oil on Panel, 18 x 24", 2016 ‘Everything suits her so—especially her pearls. They go so with her old lace. I’ll trouble you really to look at them.’ Densher, though aware he had seen them before, had perhaps not ‘really’ looked at them, and had thus not done justice to the embodied poetry…. ‘She’s a dove,’ Kate went on, ‘and one somehow doesn’t think of doves as bejeweled. Yet they suit her down to the ground.’ -Henry James, "The Wings of the Dove"
Oil on Canvas, 22 x 30", 2016 Miranda: Sweet lord, you play me false. -William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
Charcoal on Arches, 20 x 30", 2016
Oil on Panel, 12 x 12", 2016 Where the bee sucks. there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. -William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" Available for Purchase:
Oil on Canvas, 36 x 48", 2016 Click to read the quote that inspired this painting, and for purchasing info:
Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40", 2016 Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep. -Stella Gibbons, "Cold Comfort Farm"
Oil on Canvas, 36 x 48", 2016 Click to read the quote that inspired this painting, and for purchasing info:
Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40", 2016 Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. -Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"
Oil on Canvas, 36 x 48", 2016 Click to read the quote that inspired this painting, and for purchasing info:
Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30", 2015 Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only – having no desire to teach. -James Abbott McNeill Whistler, ‘Ten O’Clock Lecture’ Available for Purchase: