Drawing in Life

Maud Guilfoyle is an artist who writes about art. She is a third generation artist of five from a family of arists. Maud teaches privately and in a private art school, the Art School at Old Church, Demarest, New Jersey. She has been writing download-able books since 2004 and her first ebook, Art School Portfolio Handbook, was written to address the needs of her students seeking admission into art schools and college art programs. When this first ebook was released, her students encouraged her to write a book that would speak to a wider audience. As a child, Maud spent summers by the sea on Fire Island and in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Her mother, artist Peregrine Higgins, took Maud to museums, gallery openings and artist's studios. One of her earliest memories is sitting in front of a large painting by Monet of water lilies at the Museum of Modern Art and getting lost in the color and light. In her twenties she lived in the Southwest and painted the incredible vistas of sky with dusty pink-colored mountains and silver rivers running through the landscape. She accompanied her husband, an archaeologist, as he traveled through New Mexico and Arizona visiting ancient ruins. At present, Maud Guilfoyle maintains a studio near the Hudson River where she paints and writes about art. The quality of light in the Hudson Valley is soft, at times luminescent. Nature and the delicate balance of human interface with the environment are threaded throughout her art and writing.