Nancy Maull has shown her paintings in Maine, on Chebeague Island, where she lives in the summer and in Boston, where she lives in the winter. A recent show in Boston was called “Wouldn’t You Rather Be Outside?”

 

Many of the paintings hold a location in memory and try to catch a moment in time and space. Maine islands reliably offer up the horizon, the motion of water, color, reflected light, and long raked shadows. Island backshores, ocean-facing shores, and inland woods are all very different countries.  Boston is a tougher venue, a whole nation of its own. But structure, grid, intensity, and surprise sometimes justify the effort all the better to see them. 

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< Boston Studio 2019

   oil on canvas 20 x16