Sedimentary Enigma VIII Painting

What I find remarkable in the paintings of Miriam Maes -and actually even in her preliminary drawings, who are exercises, training, an invitation to externalize a thought, a basic inquiry- is the fact that her works are worn by the profundity and an equally spiritualized as gestural passion and also undeniably demonstrate a fully fledged plastic strength and appearance. It is not often that form and content so intense, harmonious and expressive are connected. Miriam Maes likes entities and things that in her philosophy, are also entities, such as plants and stones, trees and rocks, the skin of mother earth and all what is safely bestowed into her lap. That is, what she renders in a captivating way, in her ... paintings. That soul is depicted in a series of ever-changing emotions and a lasting visual power and brilliance, wherein symbolism and message and an eloquent colouring, nestle in a delightful way. Hugo Brutin (a.i.c.a.)