Maggie Wilder & Art’s Alive 2024

My desire has long been to feel deeply at home in the places I have lived. Those places, like the people and animals I have loved, seem less and less about the way they reflect light, and more and more about something glowing from within, and a flowing and energetic presence.
By using a limited, neutral palette and by using both left and right hands while I work, I hope to invite information that does not come from my intellect alone. I hope to make something that is not simply a product of my will. I invite the energy of place to become a wild gesture from the common wilderness we share, and I cultivate that gesture as I continue painting.
Over the last several years I have become intimate with a nearby beach. I enter the water and become part of the space I love. It is an uncommon view, perhaps, for a human, but one shared with other mammals. As I bob in the swells, I feel myself being breathed by Mother Ocean. I am eternally grateful to the Dan family for this privilege.