Piece description from the artist
The quiet after a blizzard is the best part. It’s when the snowplows have only made a first or second pass, and people are just beginning to shovel their driveways. Walking at this time feels especially calming, as if we have permission to stop working and look around us. This photograph documents my walk after the blizzard in February of 2026. The snow resting in clusters in the branches reminded me of snowy birds’ nests.
Nicole Maynard is an artist working across media: painting, drawing, digital, and games. She received an MFA in Painting with a minor in Printmaking from the University of Pennsylvania and is originally from Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Northeast and Miami. Maynard’s paintings exist at the edge of abstraction and representation, using landscape and imagery such as houses and moving boxes to suggest environments in transition. Her compositions balance structure and spatial illusions, reflecting themes of permanence and impermanence, displacement, and belonging. Architectural ambiguity is conveyed through shifting forms, which play a central role in her process.
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