About

Paddi McGrath lives, works and plays with gratitude on the traditional, ancestral and unneeded territory of the Coast Salish, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She studied at The University of Victoria, The Alberta College of Art and Design and Emily Carr College of Art and Design, where she completed her BFA.

Currently, as well as working in her studio, she facilitates the art of vulnerable seniors and is a founding member of Magpie's Nest Community Art Space. Paddi has been exhibiting her work for over thirty years.

contact Paddi at: paddi@shaw.ca

Lillies

As I run about

in Mum Mode,

poetic images churn

like butter

in my brain.

I honk my horn to

remind drivers

of large trucks

that I too, have a right

to survive

this day, this road,

this family of wants.

Like someone in

a pith helmet,

I stalk

the grocery aisle-

the endless hunt

for wild

sandwich meat,

eternally linked

by smart phone

to Base Command.

In between aisles

and traffic lanes

run rivers of lillies.

I try to catch flying

insects

as they drift by.

Ideas melt like butter

on toast.