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An improbable staircase is currently spiraling out from a hole in the ceiling of the upper floor in Maya Hewitt’s Edwardian mid-terrace house. It lands in a narrow corridor, in front of a pillowy little bedroom that was, last year, a store room for little paintings made sitting at the kitchen table, but is now a bedroom for the artist and her two small children while renovations for a new attic-studio are underway. Lately the artist and her three-year-old have been sleeping on the carpeted floor, while her six-year-old sleeps above them on the twin-size bed. Elsewhere in the house there are stuffies and toys, a TV by a sofa, books, records, a table with benches before a lovely kitchenette, and a bike by the front door.
The rest of the house is paintings. Everywhere, paintings. Stacked, shelved, leaned and hanging on every available surface. They are rendered, compulsory archives of everyday life, memory, and imagination in radiant states o…
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An improbable staircase is currently spiraling out from a hole in the ceiling of the upper floor in Maya Hewitt’s Edwardian mid-terrace house. It lands in a narrow corridor, in front of a pillowy little bedroom that was, last year, a store room for little paintings made sitting at the kitchen table, but is now a bedroom for the artist and her two small children while renovations for a new attic-studio are underway. Lately the artist and her three-year-old have been sleeping on the carpeted floor, while her six-year-old sleeps above them on the twin-size bed. Elsewhere in the house there are stuffies and toys, a TV by a sofa, books, records, a table with benches before a lovely kitchenette, and a bike by the front door.
The rest of the house is paintings. Everywhere, paintings. Stacked, shelved, leaned and hanging on every available surface. They are rendered, compulsory archives of everyday life, memory, and imagination in radiant states o…
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