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Maya Rickert Skene (b. 2006, Australia) is an artist working between coastal Maine and Brooklyn, New York, where she is currently studying at Pratt Institute (’29). Working primarily in dip pen and ink with watercolor, she complements her practice with sewing, writing, and illustration.
Drawing has been a constant throughout her life, but after discovering dip pen and ink in high school, she found a medium that matched the way she wanted to work. She is drawn to the methodical process of fine line and detail. Influenced by early twentieth-century illustration and decorative design, her art values craftsmanship as much as storytelling.
Her work explores the complex relationship between the internal and external worlds, where memory, dreams, nature, and lived experience intersect in ways that are both elegant and uncanny. Recurring symbols weave throughout her work, creating connections between individual pieces while forming a larger visual language.