Abstract Oil Paintings
I work in Series, here are a few latest groupings. For availability, check "Purchase" right up above on the menu, or email më directly. (maery@maerylanahan.com)
Tether the Star Series
A selection of paintings accompanied by original songs written by më. Music released as "Tether the Star".




Fault Lines
30" X 30" Oil on Canvas




Suspiration Series
A selection of paintings made under the idea of Suspiration. The definition of Suspiration is "to fetch a deep breath, breathe out, exclaim with a sigh."
They are painted using an intuitive process of allowing each layer of paint to inform what comes next. In this collection, deep explorations of psychological archetypes and symbolism help create meaningful, non-objective work.



Of Maps and Fears Exposed
30" X 40" Oil on Canvas





Flora Series
Using flower-like shapes as a launchpad for exploration of color/form and how it interrelates to meaning.

The Source of My Intent
30" X 30" Oil on Canvas




Rescue Relinquish
12" X 12" Oil on Canvas

Atticly Collect
12" X 12" Oil on Canvas

Vivid Drift Lifting
12" X 12" Oil on Canvas

Fire Plume Delving
12" X 12" Oil on Canvas

Bound Recognize
12" X 12" Oil on Canvas

Patient Siren
12" X 12" Oil on Canvas






Blossom + Climb Again
8" X 8" Oil on Wood


Collisions Series
A series of paintings made under the idea of Collisions.
The vision kept coming to me, kept slipping away, kept changing. It is of light coming down and crashing like a glowing wave, like a graceful slide. The glow of hope, blur and clarity dancing the dance of eternity. I kept reaching for it and it kept slipping through my fingers.
I decided to paint it over and over because it moves like clouds. It is never static. It is some kind of Divine dance between clarity and obscurity; between logic and nonsense, between knowing and wondering. There is a line drawn like a horizon but it is not. It is a line between the dualities that sway inside us. The dream and reality that mixes up and makes us human. The collision that affirms that we are alive!
I will keep painting it for as long as it keeps tapping my shoulder.



Crashing Flash
12" X 16" Oil on Arches Oil Paper

Dance of Eternity
12" X 16" Oil on Arches Oil Paper

Sky Dwell
12" X 16" Oil on Arches Oil Paper

Knowing and Wondering
12" X 16" Oil on Arches Oil Paper

Sway Inside Us
12" X 16" Oil on Arches Oil Paper

Tied Know Down
12" X 16" Oil on Arches Oil Paper

Affirming Life
12" X 16" Oil on Arches Oil Paper