This is what I'm dreaming up these days:

My technique - beyond collage
The Presence of Art: Energy, Healing and Powerful Transformation
Exhibitions, exhibits, and shows

First of all, if you saw the interview I did with Julianna, please let me know if you have any comments or questions. I'd love to hear from you. Please email me here.

"The Presence of Art: Energy, Healing and Powerful Transformation" is a thought provoking series about how art comes into and changes people's lives. Julianna Poldi probes 21 varied art professionals searching for the elusive properties that make art so important and meaningful for so many people. I took the easy way out, and confirmed that art is magic. Ha ha. But honestly, check out the series, available through March 9th.

In the interview I talk about my process and how I ended up painting with paper. It is still mixed media. I have listed "Mixed Media" as the medium for all of my paintings for many years. But now the mixed media is less varied - it is paper and acrylic medium. I realized some people call this collage. But to me it is just painting with paper and another mixed media piece. But for clarity at least right now, these are collages. Fine Art Collage with high quality paper and materials and the end result - fine art.

When my new website comes out - that's very soon I hope - there is an entire article on the History of My Technique. It really goes into the full history, which surprised me as much as anyone. The benefit of having made art for so long is that I can review my history and learn from it. When I wrap my head around what is going on from a historical perspective, it propels me to make more and better art.

So what am I saying here? I'm saying that by the next newsletter I'd like to have that article available for you to read, and my new site up and running. It's about time.

Needless to say, I love my paper.

Little known fact. I had my graduate exhibition in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One large wall was all red. Red prints, red paintings and a huge mixed media fabric piece that I sewed together myself - all red prints printed on cotton. When a young child entered the room and ran toward the wall yelling "Red!" I new my job was done. College was worth it after all.

I will have a large scale Solo Exhibit in Pasadena in May.

It's been a tough year for me so far, to be honest. I have the tendency to run deep into depression without warning and though I'm very practiced at climbing my way back out, sometimes I get stuck. Things just weren't getting clearer. It was so bad I was afraid to commit to anything - like the new show I've been promising. But thanks to good people and plenty of perseverance, I am happy to be back and I'm ready to announce....

A huge solo show of my work at the Rosebud Cafe in Pasadena in May!!!

I will be sending more info on this one as it approaches. If you are anywhere around the Los Angeles area, please mark your calendar for Friday, May 8, 2020. "Natural Alchemy by Maureen Maki" is about to be live!

Rosebud is more than just a place with lots of nice walls to show art. It has a unique story of social consciousness and an owner committed to helping homeless youth. Read about it here.

Maureen Maki

www.maureenmaki.com

Fine Art Collage - Coming your way