 Welcome from Marie Laywine
The next art therapy day, 'Giving Feelings a Form', will be held on Saturday 10th March 2012. Please see the Events section for details.
I am an artist, born in Canada and presently living and painting in the U.K. My studio is an old chapel situated in Abbotsbury, a 600-year-old village in South West Dorset. This is where I work and exhibit my paintings. It is also the place where I hold my Art Therapy workshops. The studio is open to the public all year round.
In my painting I work with what I call the 'interior landscape'; I use images and ideas from my dreams to help me represent visually the mountain ranges and coastal plains inside a person. It takes time and reflection to collect this information and then to develop it as an image. I build the image up slowly on paper, board, canvas, using materials dictated by the image and its complexity. I apply the paint with a palette knife, followed by layers of transparent glazes. This process is repeated until the desired textural effect is achieved. This sometimes means that a work will remain ‘in progress’ for several years. I like to refer to this process as an ‘archaeological dig’ on a psychic level. My travels were a period of time when I was able to increase my knowledge in both dream material, exterior landscape and culture.
MY TRAVELS
Florence, Italy: home of the Renaissance Period; Quimper, Brittany, France: working with the dream symbol active in the exterior landscape.
Middle East: the horizon line in the desert has similar characteristics with the dream – continuously changing in shape and movement.
The Himalayas: dreams are very different at this height. This gave me the idea that there is a space where dream and life meet.
Great Britain: exploring the space where dream and life meet and translating that information into an image.
Read Marie's CV and qualifications
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Contact Marie LaywineThe Old Chapel, Back Street, Abbotsbury, Dorset, DT3 4JP, United Kingdom T: +44 (0)1305 871175 E: info@marielaywine.com |
