Artist Maya Hewitt's Heartbeats Collected by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts

oil and acrylic on canvas，152.5 x 152.5 cm｜60 x 60 inches（Courtesy of the artist）

We pleased to announce the news that artist Maya Hewitt’s Heartbeats has been included in the permanent collection of the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. 

Maya Hewitt's paintings often possess a special atmosphere of tranquility and alienation. Time and space condense on the canvas with a scene between illusion and reality. She sets a unique balance between surrealism painting and urban realism, composing harmonious dream space with illogical objects.  

In Heartbeats, Hewitt appropriates Utagawa Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e painting Hodogaya Station and Shinkame Bridge as if a set stage. However, Hewitt uses different perspectives, creating an entrance to a space of another dimension. With similar color tones and a certain degree of flatness, the integration of the scene allows the three mothers in the painting to have a self-evident emotional connection with the remote city of Edo period.