Maya Andreic
 Maya was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia and immigrated in the USA in 1992. She livesin Issaquah, with her husband, 2 kids and 2 dogs. Maya is a member of Parklane Gallery, ArtEast and EAFA.
Artist Statement
It is not always easy to understand why you do what you do. I paint because I like it, it relaxes me, and makes me happy when I like the result, but it is also frustrating at times... The whole process is more about feeling than about thinking, so, until now I never thought about why I paint what I do, and the way I do. In order to write this statement, I had to analyze myself and my art, and around the same time a friend who saw my art for the first time commented on it, and one of the terms she used to describe it was ‘childlike honesty’. That is when I started really, really looking at my art, and for the first time I realized this: the scenes in my art are pretty ordinary (people, dogs, but mostly landscapes, cityscapes or single trees)... but always more colorful, shinier and happier than they are in actuality (‘childlike’?). I am not naïve, or inexperienced… as most people, I have seen my share of happiness, but also sadness and tragedy. And, unlike most, I have also seen what a civil war can do to a beautiful country (the one I was born in). However, I do not have the least bit of desire to eternalize the evil or the sad side of reality in my art. It seems to me that my most recent work can be separated into two main categories: the peaceful, serene kind (e.g. single trees, frequently 'prettied up' with silver, gold, bronze or sparkly accents, occasionally with patterns and textures), and the cheerful, upbeat kind (e.g. landscapes in bright, dissonant colors, and my whimsical Seattle cityscapes, usually in bold colors, with a 'dressed up' Space Needle ). My current art is very different from my work from a few years ago. I believe that all the worrysome events going on in the world have caused this need in me to start creating a prettier, lighter, brighter, almost fairytale-like version of what I see around me... that, and my general belief that the colorful, the happy and the innocent inspire positive thinking and awaken the good in people. And we sure could use that long lost child in us to make this world a better place
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