M’Liz Keefe is a painter living on Fogo Island. She moved to the Island from the States, making her home in the community of Barr’d Islands.

The paintings of the North Atlantic, the movements of the sun and the moon, speak at once to the dichotomy of the repetitive life of water and sky and their ever-changing states. They speak to a powerful and literal fullness, visual linear existence, and the state of lightness vs darkness. These are integral to Keefe’s perceptions of life as witness to nature, that constantly reshape and re-define beauty.

As metaphors, they speak to aloneness, autonomy in journey, and inner spiritual strength in the endless nowhere-ness of exploration, contemplation and wandering.