Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Pen




Email: maursquires (at) gmail (dot) com

Artist Statement
Maureen M. Squires, Painter and Calligrapher

Maureen enjoys taking the words of wonderful writers and poets and trying to express their meanings through the use of the appropriate alphabet in combination with color, illustration, illumination or abstract gesture. Writing whose appearance, as well as content, evokes response in the viewer. Maureen's background is Fine Arts and she was a painting major at Seton Hill University in western Pennsylvania. She first studied calligraphy as part of a Drawing and Design course. Several years after graduation, she went back to Carnegie Mellon University and studied Advanced Calligraphy for two years with noted calligrapher, type-designer, Professor Arnold Bank, a turning point in her approach to the alphabet and painting. Her work since then has consisted primarily of “painting letters and words”. Maureen enjoys interpreting the words of others or simply experimenting with the abstract forms of the alphabet.