Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association

"Over the years I've flirted with working big because it's a challenge— and because it's harder. to ignore art that takes up most of a wall. But big art stacks up at home much faster than small art, so I've had to make some ground rules, such as no more using barbed wire to make a textural statement. And definitely no more pieces of art too big to fit in my car. Now I break up images into smaller pieces: think diptychs and triptychs, or maybe a dozen sheets of watercolor paper pinned up side by side. I'll be talking about the process I use to—for example— turn a bad photograph into a. life-sized deer collaged from scraps of paper."

Julie Maynard’s work is a form of painting with paper on two- or three-dimensional surfaces, building up layers thatincorporate bits and pieces picked up along the Potomac River and city streets. The works on paper are collages of advertisements and illustrations torn from magazines and catalogues. Found objects add texture and shadow lines. The three-dimensional pieces often begin with a shape from nature — a bird, a leaf — cut from wood. Maynard has been a member of TAG/The Artists Gallery in Frederick, Md. since 2011.  She lives near Burkittsville, Md. More at www.juliemaynard.com.