Maggie paints...

On site, in the moment, plein air. From the Inland Northwest to Pacific islands, to crowded Asian marketplaces. I'm currently painting out of Spokane, Washington, but you will also find work here from Maui (I'm from there and go home regularly), my years living in Southeast Asia, and other trips and adventures.

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Painting with the wind in my face #pleinairpainting #watercolor #paia #spreckelsville https://www.instagram.com/p/Brbv-vqHswm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1npl404y14jz3

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Afternoon at Baby Beach I found a little place out of the wind by sitting just down below the red dirt bluff on the leeward side. #pleinair #watercolor #maui #spreckelsville #paia https://www.instagram.com/p/Brbq87tn3Yx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=narslwzpkl9w

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“Memory plus oblivion equals imagination.” I sketched, doodled, and took notes in the dark of the audience during the last Green Room event at the MACC, put on by the @themerwinconservancy. What a treat to marinate in the ideas of Matthew Zapruder and Lewis Hyde. #whypoetry #thegift #observationaldrawing #creativity #forgetting #sequentialart https://www.instagram.com/p/BrMtB4nnIzQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s7oskv2xhrep

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Baby Beach #pleinair #pleinairpainting #watercolor #paia #maui #northshore https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq39YgyHISW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8c928zsx9kaz

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Happy Friday! #pleinair #watercolor #maalaea https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq1FbMDnQ3F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h0bqhh5me9bz

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Nu’u Landing looking back towards Kahikinui #pleinair #pleinairpainting #watercolor #hawaiiislandslandtrust #coastline #maui #kaupo https://www.instagram.com/p/BqlxKQaHrzR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5zb1a0y7d34m

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Kipahulu painting today. Absorbing all the beauty and calmness out that way. #pleinair #pleinairpainting #watercolor #maui https://www.instagram.com/p/BqlwBx4nEFj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13wozm0w8c7p8

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Makawao Honwanji Obon Dance! #pleinair #watercolor #upcountry #mauinokaoi #obon #makawao

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I found this Toni Morrison quote after a certain November day two years back. I was driven to turn it into a banner, and I hung it in my art room. Interesting to read it again. Breathe. Create. Don’t be silent.

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A bit of Slavin sunset to keep with me in my sketchbook. #pleinair #watercolor #wetland #sunset #spokane #paintedherealmostahundredtimes

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Looking at the number of paintings I created in the past 3 years... Spokane, hiking trips in Idaho, visits to California, summers and winter breaks on Maui, adventures north to Canada... This is how I record my life. #pleinair #watercolor #travel #artistlife #arttherapy

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When I visited my grandma’s house with my family the day after her service, I found the stack of letters I sent her when I was living in Southeast Asia. Here is one I painted outside a temple during a drizzly evening night market in Chiang Mai, probably in 2009. #pleinair #watercolor #thailand #chiangmai #buddha #previouslife #howlongagowasthis #andwhenamitravelingagain

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Wildflowers at Slavin Conservation Area #wetland #wildflowers #watercolor #pleinair #spokane

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Lake Stevens, northern Idaho. This hike kicks my butt and fills my heart each time. #pleinair #watercolor #hiking #wilderness #idaho

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Paintings are moments, memories stored in pigment soaked paper. ❤️

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Good morning.

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Not a bad camping spot. #kootenays #camping