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On this last Friday of my show @searspeytongallery I also want to take a moment to thank the three talented artists who help me out in the studio. Nikiirichey @nikiirichey Eva Langsdon @evalangsdon and Sophia Mason @sophiamasonart ♥️ This has been a busy year and I’m so grateful to have such trusted eyes and hands helping to make it all possible.

Shown here:
“Tatting” 2023 by @nikiirichey
“internode” 2026 by @evalangsdon
“Polyps specimen” 2025 by @sophiamasonart by @mayseycraddock

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Tomorrow is the final day to see ‘to the heart of the woods’ @searspeytongallery 🌅

A huge and heartfelt thank you 💛 to everyone at the gallery for creating such a beautiful space for this show, and for everything you have done to bring my work into the world. I only wish I could come up there one more time to see the paintings all together. It was a blast being with you in September! I also want to thank @chipmem for the always fantastic photos of the work and Hope Frames in Brooklyn for the very elegant and exquisite frames. There are more people to thank on the Memphis side, but that will come in a separate post :)

Shown here : ‘The Long Dawn’; 2026; 43 x 30.75 inches; #gouache, #flashe and thread on #paperbags by @mayseycraddock

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We’re about a month out from the ADAA Art Fair. Leading up to the fair, we’ll be sharing highlights of our participating artists, beginning with a few images from a studio visit with Maysey Craddock.

ADAA Art Fair
November 12–16
New York, NY

#davidluskgallery #mayseycraddock #adaa by @mayseycraddock

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This is the final week to see my show ‘to the heart of the woods’ @searspeytongallery ✨✨✨

The ten paintings in ‘to the heart of the woods’ are like an invitation, a signpost, a love letter. As references to place, they are themselves records of the unfurling life cycles of a tree, a copse, a shore. The wind, the water, the weather and time are forever shaping the edges of things, but this unfurling ribbon of natural change is pulled at the edges, pressured by the forces and appetites of human consumption. Out in the world, wild expanses divide and fragment, and in the studio I paint to remember these spaces and find a way to calm the overwhelm that comes with every news cycle. Drawn from my own photographs, I reimagine fragments of wild habitat that persist—despite human impact—within ongoing cycles of death, rebirth, and reclamation. These are spaces of tension and harmony, where the built surface and the evolving image converge. They are windows that open up to a slower register of time—one attuned to seasonal shifts, geological rhythms, and the quiet persistence of the natural world. Through line, color and beauty, a way to breathe.

Shown here: “Cloud becomes Sea”; 2026; 47.75 x 36 inches; #gouache, #flashe and thread on #paperbags by @mayseycraddock

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‘what is the way to the stars’ @searspeytongallery
24 x 28 inches; #gouache, #flashe and thread on #paperbags

Shown in 4th image with beautiful work by @shelleyreedart @andrewzimmerman 💚💛💚 by @mayseycraddock

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A natural shoreline along the bays and creeks of the northern #GulfofMexico is a tangled thicket of brush. Charismatic bursts of palmetto, dappled light in the dense undergrowth, and then smooth soft sands along the shore. So much has been developed along waterways everywhere, and with development comes erosion, and with erosion comes fortification in the form of seawalls and bulkheads: hard borders in the intertidal zone. Where long stretches of shoreline are not impeded, the water gives as much as it takes, and the undulating line shifts, but holds. I was thinking of these rhythms of constant tides and waveforms like a heartbeat, continually shaping and caressing the place between land and sea.

Shown here: “in these bright peripheries”, 2026, 48 x 36 inches, #gouache, #flashe and #thread on #paperbags

See this and other work @searspeyton in my show “to the heart of the woods”, on view until October 17. by @mayseycraddock

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“Cloud and Locust Sun” is the largest work in my show ‘to the heart of the woods’ @searspeytongallery

In my last post about the painting “Blue Mountain” I spoke about how I revisit places over time, both through real-world visits and also by continuing to let the imagery speak through my work. This piece is referencing the same very old live oak tree, but in a more imagined form - one that has emerged through iterations of drawing and internalizing the shapes and curves of this tree. Its canopy patterns against sky, and the surrounding meadow and treelines have morphed into clouds and rivers. With such an expanse of painting surface, I worked to control my color urges and keep the palette streamlined. Painting at such a large scale is another kind of experience for an artist - you really are in such a different kind of conversation with the work. It is almost body-scale, and while I always strive to listen to where each painting wants to go, a piece this big is more like the mother tree itself, telling me everything I need to know. In the studio, it was a grounding presence and fed the energy and exploration that went into creating this body of work.

See this and other work @searspeyton in my show “to the heart of the woods”, on view until October 17.

Shown here: “Cloud and Locust Sun”, 2026, 54 x 70 inches; #gouache, #flashe, #thread and #paperbags - plus a few studio shots by @mayseycraddock

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This piece, “Blue Mountain”, is a recurring image in my work. I have known this particular tree all my life, and the draping branch comes from a photo I took while standing under its canopy. It is an old tree, a live oak whose arms undulate and cross and sometimes touch the ground. I’m drawn to the drama of its riverine forms tethering earth and sky, the Spanish moss lending a sense of gravity. All of my work is based on my own photographs, which are turned into intricate line drawings that are transferred onto the paper bags with carbon paper. So a lot of drawing, a lot of line, a lot of time to think about the image. This process is labor intensive, so I end up re-using drawings to experiment with different color palettes or scales. The image therefore goes through its own kind of evolution, the lines morphing and changing along the way, like a shoreline shaped by waves, so that each iteration becomes its own moment in time.

See this and other work @searspeytongallery in my show “to the heart of the woods”, on view until October 17.

Shown here: “Blue Mountain”, 2026, 61.75 x 45.5 inches; #gouache, #flashe, #thread and #paperbags - plus the source photo and a few studio shots by @mayseycraddock

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Maysey Craddock: “to the heart of the woods” is on view now through October 17th!

The wind, the water, the weather and time are forever shaping the edges of things, but this unfurling ribbon of natural change is fraying at the edges, pressured by the forces and appetites of human consumption. Out in the world, wild expanses divide and fragment, and in the studio Craddock paints to remember these spaces and find a way to calm the overwhelm that comes with every news cycle. She reimagines fragments of wild habitat that persist, despite human impact, within ongoing cycles of death, rebirth, and reclamation. These are spaces of tension and harmony, where the built surface and the evolving image converge. In to the heart of the woods, the title piece of the show, Craddock leads the viewer into this tension, an electric meeting point of deep fuchsia and orange, the place where sky meets land and land meets water.
#mayseycraddock #searspeytongallery by @mayseycraddock

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My show ‘to the heart of the woods’ is on view now @searspeytongallery through October 17 🌚

Shown here: “find beauty, be still”, 2026, 48x36 inches, #gouache #flashe and thread on #paperbags by @mayseycraddock

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I am thrilled to be heading to New York this week for the opening of ‘to the heart of the woods’, my sixth solo show with @searspeytongallery ✨ There will be an opening this Thursday September 10 from 5-7pm. New York friends I hope to see you there! The show will be on view until October 17.

The ten paintings in ‘to the heart of the woods’ are like an invitation, a signpost, a love letter. As references to place, they are themselves records of the unfurling life cycles of a tree, a copse, a shore. The wind, the water, the weather and time are forever shaping the edges of things, but this unfurling ribbon of natural change is pulled at the edges, pressured by the forces and appetites of human consumption. Out in the world, wild expanses divide and fragment, and in the studio I paint to remember these spaces and find a way to calm the overwhelm that comes with every news cycle. Drawn from my own photographs, I reimagine fragments of wild habitat that persist—despite human impact—within ongoing cycles of death, rebirth, and reclamation. These are spaces of tension and harmony, where the built surface and the evolving image converge. They are windows that open up to a slower register of time—one attuned to seasonal shifts, geological rhythms, and the quiet persistence of the natural world. Through line, color and beauty, a way to breathe.

Shown here: “to the hearts of the woods”, 2026, 46x55.5 inches, #gouache, #flashe and thread on archivally treated #paperbags by @mayseycraddock

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