Maya Hewitt

Characteristic of a strand of Japanese painting prevalent in the 1990’s Hewitt’s work draws upon childhood darkness – fascination and forlorn – as well as an iconography both vaguely British and Southeast Asian, referencing her own cultural heritage. Her paintings reflect upon the artist’s simultaneous embrace of and ambivalence towards motherhood – from the dual perspectives of parent and child – as well as the place of narrative painting, made in England, in a post-covid, politically fraught time. Not without humor, beauty, even, the paintings are suggestive of an optimistic landscape heretofore unseen in the artist’s practice