Maidy
Morhous

An accomplished printmaker and painter as well as sculptor, Maidy Morhous was born in New York and currently creates out of her studio thirty minutes north of San Diego. Morhous received her Master of Fine Arts degree while studying at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris in the mid-1970s. Before returning to the States, she then traveled to Italy to further her studies in casting techniques at the Fonderia Artistica–Marinelli Foundry in Florence.

 Maidy Morhous expresses herself through the medium of acrylic and oil; whether totally abstract, or an expression of abstraction by pulling in elements of nature. Her paintings are meant to engage the viewer and allow them to contemplate and pull from within, and for a moment disengage from the outside world.

Referred to as contemporary abstraction Morhous continually searches to portray her environment in the world today. These paintings expose the view to and pull them in to react and question what is being viewed – be it life and one’s existence, or the world’s