Marie Laywine

I was born in Canada and have been living and painting in the UK for 30 years. My studio is in Abbotsbury, a 600 year old village in south west Dorset. This is where I work and exhibit my paintings. Viewing is by appointment only.

In my painting I work with what I call the 'interior landscape'; I use images and ideas from my dreams to help me represent visually the mountain ranges and coastal plains inside a person.

It takes time and reflection to collect this information and then develop it as an image. I build the image up slowly on paper, board or canvas, using materials dictated by the image and its complexity. I apply the paint with a palette knife, followed by layers of transparent glazes. This process is repeated until the desired textural effect is achieved. This sometimes means that a work will remain 'in progress' for several years. I like to refer to this process as an "archaeological dig" on a psychic level.

My travels were a period of time when I was able to increase my knowledge in both dream material, exterior landscape and culture. I have lived and worked in several very different parts of the world:
Florence, Italy: home of the Renaissance Period;
Quimper, Brittany, France: working with the dream symb...

1976 - 1980 ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART, FINE ARTS,
Toronto, Ontario
Third-year off-campus Study in Florence, Italy

1974 - 1976 McMASTER UNIVERSITY,
Hamilton, Ontario
Art: Full Time Studio
Art History: Renaissance Period

1970 - 1974 Studied with ROSSLYN REED
Ceramics, its art and technique

1960 - 1961 MONTREAL MUSEUM SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS Montreal, Quebec
Studied with ARTHUR LISMER
(Group of Seven, Canada)