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BIOGRAPHY
Maureen O'Keeffe was born in Griffith N.S.W. and moved to Sydney in 1972 to attend the University of Sydney.
Maureen has been inspired by the teaching of the late John Ogburn, whose studio she attended in the ‘80s and ‘90s. There, a world of painting opened up for her, and the works of Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, the other ‘greats’ of Modern painting and the earlier painters of the Western world became familiar to her and loved.
In 1987 Maureen became a member of the Harrington Street Artists’ Co-operative and started exhibiting annually at the gallery. The world around her is a source of inspiration and Maureen finds that the spirit of the Harrington Street Gallery inspires her to keep painting in a way that expresses a thought, belief or feeling about her world with an immediacy not expressed in other ways.
“I value the times in my life where I can observe and reflect and which give impetus to my painting."
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“So you see the imagination needs moodling – long inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.” Brenda Ueland
Maureen O'Keeffe was born in Griffith N.S.W. and moved to Sydney in 1972 to attend the University of Sydney.
Maureen has been inspired by the teaching of the late John Ogburn, whose studio she attended in the ‘80s and ‘90s. There, a world of painting opened up for her, and the works of Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, the other ‘greats’ of Modern painting and the earlier painters of the Western world became familiar to her and loved.
In 1987 Maureen became a member of the Harrington Street Artists’ Co-operative and started exhibiting annually at the gallery. The world around her is a source of inspiration and Maureen finds that the spirit of the Harrington Street Gallery inspires her to keep painting in a way that expresses a thought, belief or feeling about her world with an immediacy not expressed in other ways.
“I value the times in my life where I can observe and reflect and which give impetus to my painting."
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“So you see the imagination needs moodling – long inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.” Brenda Ueland