Meet Me in the Flower Bed
Maevis Chamberlain
Feature Wall
May 27–August 9, 2025
In Maevis Chamberlain’s dreamy oil paintings, she creates softly textured worlds in a palette of tinted earthy colours, melding natural forms with tender portraits to build in-between spaces of comfort and belonging. Showing on the Feature Wall, Meet Me in the Flower Bed speaks to the vital refuge we find in the garden, the forest, the bed, and the people we love.
PARALLEL PROGRAM
Mending with Maevis
Saturday, July 5, 1-3pm (register here)
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is inspired by the processes of dreaming and the ways that our minds blend forms together in those psychological states. Through oil painting and mixed media I use the natural world as my visual language to investigate these ideas. I am interested in how processes like decay, growth, and rust relate to how dreams take our daily realities and alter them.
Built in layers, my paintings often have many predecessors underneath that were essential in the understanding of where it needed to go to communicate my idea. This constant reworking is similar to the natural processes that inspire it, like lichen growing over tree bark.
I like the idea of creating secret languages with the people we are closest to, a melding of these dream worlds. It is in these mutual liminal spaces where we can find the most belonging in this world and create safe spaces within people when the physical world may not feel as protective. I hope my paintings feel both familiar and strange, giving you permission to detach from the material world.
Maevis Chamberlain is a recent graduate from the Queen's Bachelor of Fine Art program with a focus in oil painting. She has been cultivating a body of work inspired by dream states and interpersonal relationships for her graduating class's final exhibition titled Obsolescence, and looks forward to expanding upon these ideas.