“You know how you keep a [little] of your childhood inside of you, a place to go when things aren’t going right? That’s what you see when you look at one of Maud’s paintings. It’s that world from when you were a child.. with no shadows in it.”
I seriously love the National Film Board of Canada… so many quality films and animations – I’ve spent a lot of time on their website over the years. About this video (from nfb.ca): “Set against a background of her paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscapes they depict, this short documentary is a portrait of the life and work of one of Canada’s foremost primitive painters, Maud Lewis. 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.”