12/15/2025
Behold the earthen portals of Portland’s own, Maggie Irwin.
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We are honored to host a selection of captivating color studies from this buoyant restauranteur-artiste.
Irwin is perhaps best known for her delectable & longed-for St. Johns haunt, Pastificio d’Oro - though lately she’s been exploring a newfound culinary project in the form of a French Cajun pop-up called Ma Cher, with her partner Chase, from inside the acclaimed Dame restaurant. But Maggie’s creativity clearly expands far beyond her coveted salad dressing, while still holding the same humble, well-considered, and deceptively-complex ex*****on as her food.
Painted in acrylic & pastel, these “Portals” explore radial color theory in a way that simultaneously awakens, transports and grounds the viewer. They are meditations on curiosity and acceptance, translated in a style that lives outside of time, while nodding to mystical painters of the past like Hilma Af Klint and Sonia Delaunay.
Consider us enchanted.
As we go into our darkest season during the darkest time this country has seen, celebrating what connects us & makes us human -the arts- seems more important than ever.
View Irwin’s work in-person during our shop hours, and coming soon, online at shoplyko.com.
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