Beach Bums Maura Allen The compulsion to make aesthetic

The compulsion to make aesthetic objects displays the creative spark that distinguished Homo sapiens form Neanderthals

is considered a carrier of prayers

17 x 36" oil on panel

cowboys had many roadless rough miles to travel over the range to care for cattle herds

2 1/2” x 4”

Beach Bums Maura Allen The compulsion to make aestheticAnguilla, Caribbean 2022 Large 56 x 97 Unframed, 71 x 112 Framed Edition of 12 Standard 37 x 64 Unframed, 52 x 79 Framed Edition of 12 In my deliberation over the Pirates in the Caribbean project, there were two overriding personal filters. The first was to avoid being formulaic and the second was my sense that it would be commercial suicide to be too earnest. Pirates are mythological figures and whilst what they did was very serious, I was only too