Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows

Maud Lewis overcome great difficulties to become one of Canada’s foremost primitive painters. Her simple scenes of life around Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, invoke the beauty and joy with which she viewed the world.

Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of 30. She had never seen a work of art and had never attended an art class but her paintings captured the simple strength, beauty and happiness of the world she saw – a world without shadows.

You can read more about her life at the Art Canada Institute and in the picture book featured below.

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