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C.J.M. (Max) Elliott, B.F.A.
Photo by Roy Andersen
Max Elliott has lived and worked in the mountain parks of Western Canada for most of the past 26 years. Educated at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Max has created drawings, paintings, mixed-media collages, prints, mosaics, ceramic pieces, and poetry reflecting her love of an ever-changing and inspirational mountain environment.
Max’s recent exhibitions include the solo show Glacier-fed and the group show Elemental Inspiration: Out of the Wildfire, both at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff. Her work can be found in public and private collections world-wide.
Artist’s Statement
Water, rock, ice, clouds. Why is it that we can feel least encumbered in the high, wind-scoured, barren and most desolate of places — is it because they are stripped bare, in stark contrast to the meaningless sea of choice with which we are sometimes confronted in daily life?
Is it because our senses are stimulated by constant change, though as we stare at the glacier’s headwall imagining its movement over time, we know that to all appearances it will remain almost exactly the same?
Perhaps it is the recognition of a sense of age, and of one’s small place in the workings of this wondrous planet.
Or maybe it’s just a matter of savouring the Silence and the Freedom.
— Max Elliott, journal entry, 2002