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Acrylic and Silver Leaf on Wood Panel

I immediately landed my first job as a designer after a year of courses

I am uninterested in painting things the way they are

These new works reflect on the desire to run away and search for freedom

Home gold and folkloreDetails About Oil and acrylic on panel 12 x 16 in. 2019 18 x 22 in. (f) Maj Askew is an exhibiting artist who utilizes traditional and digital media to explore ideas of identity, iteration, and archetype. Composing the human figure and gesture in symbolic space to convey emotional experience, she simultaneously taps into both literary and mythological themes. Maj was born in the American Midwest, into a family deeply entrenched in the book business.