Maeve Cotter
Maeve Cotter is a PNW-based trans woman artist and instructor specializing in realist portraiture, figure drawing, and painting. Thoroughly grounded in the discipline and technical excellence of Russian, Soviet, and Chinese academic art, Maeve is passionate about giving visibility to themes of queerness and resistance to oppression. The daughter of local artists Joe Cotter and Kolieha Bush, Maeve has been drawing and painting since childhood. Past ventures include working as an artist for McMenamins and being lead artist on the 2016 Estacada Artback mural "Illumination,” numerous private portrait commissions, and multiple gallery exhibitions. Maeve spent a year studying classical drawing in master artist Juliette Aristides’ atelier in Seattle, WA, completed the extensive Russian Academic Drawing Course on New Masters Academy, and has taken workshops with Ivan Loginov, Iliya Mirochnik, and Gilberto Geraldo. In addition to her commissioned work and studies, Maeve is enjoying teaching academic drawing/painting at High Low Art Space and developing a body of work for gallery submission. Check out Maeve’s Instagram to see more of her work!