Maggie McKean

Painter

Maggie McKean is a member of Shropshire Art Society, exhibiting regularly in Shrewsbury and Church Stretton. She has also exhibited paintings at Oswestry Open Art Competition, the Shropshire Open Exhibition, and for the last four years has been selected for the Ellesmere National Art Exhibition. Maggie enjoys painting in acrylics,  pastels and gouache, as well as mixed media with collage. Inspired by landscape, urban scenes and people, every subject through Maggie's eyes is enlivened with a rich and expressive use of colour.

The poem was composed, by  the artist to accompany the  painting above "And the Cuckoo sang near Cranberry Rock" on Monday June 1st 2020.

And the Cuckoo sang

Near Cranberry Rock,

And we from Town

Were in Lockdown,

Fearful of illness and

Faces with masks

But Nature heads not

Our pointless tasks

to keep apart in isolation,

Helpless victims of desolation.

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The cuckoo sings to find his mate,

And Nature burgeons in full spate

Scattering golden blooms

On Shropshire hills.

And Lark ascending into blue

Fills my heart with joy renewed,

That Spring will come again each year

With fresh colour, hope and cheer

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