Page 8 - Giv'er Miramichi Magazine - Winter Issue 2022

March Morning, South Barnaby
Painting by Anne Maloney Assaff

Anne Maloney Assaff

Painting the Beauty Around Her

Contributed Article

Miramichi artist Anne Maloney Assaff hesitates to call What do you hope your art achieves?
herself a self-taught artist. While she hasn't had formal art I just want people to feel good. I hope it invokes a good
training, she has long been an avid student of art books and memory, or a desire to get outside and appreciate nature. My
videos. "I don't want to ever stop learning. Painting is a skill hope is for people to realize that painting is not a magic trick
like any other and can be learned. Once you understand the that only a select few know how to do. It is accessible to
fundamentals, you're free to allow your personality to come everyone. All you need is the interest and the willingness to
through so it becomes a rich form of self-expression." learn.
She has used that approach in teaching art lessons at
Boys and Girls Club, and in local schools and also in giving What are your artistic goals?
lessons to adults. I'm working on some paintings for another exhibit,
hopefully in the not-too-distant future. (continued on pg. 10)
How long have you been creating art?
Since I was old enough to hold a crayon. For awhile, I
was more interested in writing poems and stories, but it all
comes from the same place. I've always had the need to create
something.

What medium do you work in?
I paint in acrylics. It is a very versatile medium.

What inspires you most?
As with most realism artists, it's the light... how it
transforms a scene, sets a mood. Many of my recent paintings
are scenes around Barnaby River, where I grew up. I'm
inspired by the changing of the seasons, spending time in
nature and having opportunities to see wildlife...whether it's
the more common moose or a rare snowy owl. I paint what
I've experienced firsthand.
Anne painted this Snowy Owl, which is also featured on our cover,
for the Atlantic Wildlife Institute in Cookville to raise funds.

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