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Maudsley is known for her work in oil on canvas, however prior to 1967 she worked predominantly in gouache, watercolour and ink. This was largely to do with space and time constraints, as she did not have a personal studio in her home while raising four young daughters. In her more recent work, each
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before the design is transferred to tracing paper, and finally completed with oil on canvas. Because of the abstract and symbolic nature of her work, Maudsley believes that the audience plays an active role in viewing and understanding her art. In a 2018 interview, she explains how she values her
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Maudsley has a distinct personal palette, often described as "subdued." Her work often contains figures, landscapes and buildings that emerge from initially ambiguous graphic constellations. Drawing on the history of
Western art, Maudsley includes many symbolic references in her work. For example,
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in 1927, Maudsley has had regular solo exhibitions since 1957. She is best known for her complex paintings and drawings that use abstraction and visual analogy to describe inner and outer worlds. Maudsley describes her paintings as “visual essays,” in that they are focused, methodical attempts to
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explore a concept. Through exploration of visual language, Maudsley uses lines, numbers, shapes, letters, geometry and symbols to construct geometric labyrinth-like compositions that explore her everyday experiences.
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audiences putting in effort: "the energy that it takes to try and hear what somebody is saying, that's the virtue... it's not an intellectual thing; it's the act of trying to hear what's being said."
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the recurring reference to the musical tenor in
Maudsley's work connects the non-verbal nature of music with painting. This may be due to her time spent studying at the
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