edie Maney | Art Down Under

Many of us dream of taking a trip that will somehow change our lives, but few of us are able to let our travels affect us to such a degree. It’s different for artists—for them exposure to new environments often takes their work in entirely new directions. That’s what happened when edie Maney—she prefers all lowercase letters for her first name—looked over her photographs from an extended trip to Australia and New Zealand in February 2011. She wanted to paint something based on the images, but since she doesn’t work in a representational manner, she found a way to translate the scenes into her abstract style.

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