Based in Bellingham WA, Maze is a surreal story artist conveying her conceptual work through various mediums. Inspired by complex world building and surrealist media, she crafts whimsically alluring worlds that span over drawing, painting, prints and sculptural work.
The Wandering Artist
“I always feel like its within my reach. That feeling when you’re looking out at the point where the sea meets the horizon. Perhaps this feeling, is a feeling that has been felt, for as long as we have been able to imagine beyond the sky.”
Maze was always creating at a young age, with many of her earliest drawings depicting creatures she encountered in her dreams.
Through her school years, she loved getting lost in fictional worlds. Her nose was always in a Warrior Cats book, and her sketchbooks littered with cat drawings. She began drawing from inspiration of worlds she was enamored with and would always be doodling. A glimpse of her curiosity of the surreal began to emerge later in her high school art.
When Maze attended Willamette University, her art history class on Dada and Surrealism were greatly intriguing to her. She was introduced to the artist Leonora Carrington, who is one of her greatest inspirations in depicting subtle symbolism within dreamy realms.
It wasn’t until 2021 when Maze transferred to the Pacific Northwest College of Art to pursue her artistic practice.
Maze graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Animation. She was entranced by the concept of bringing life to her art and found a great passion in making her art morph, ebb and flow through moving image.
Her junior year short animated film, Les Yeux Comme Moi, was awarded Best Animation at West Sound Film Festival and Best Student Film at Cine Paris Film Festival. Through creating a brief short film, she was ignited to delve into complex concepts through world building.
Maze’s senior year thesis project was a world building pitch portfolio for an animated film trilogy titled Return to Eternium. She illustrates the complexity of human emotion within a surreal dystopian world that is stylistically unique, taking inspiration from the organic forms of art nouveau and various worlds in the sci-fi and fantasy genre.
Post-college Maze currently lives in Bellingham WA with her boyfriend and two cats, Zona and Zelda. She’s creating her own studio called Eyewander as a collection of all of her physical media. While she now enjoys being surrounded by nature, Maze continues to create worlds unique to her vision.