MARINE GALLERY AT MAEM Do you remember Mr. Andrew, who painted twelve beautiful pictures for us, from which we created the MAEM 2021 calendar? If not, please go back to the eighth edition of our M Magazine, where you will find an interview with the artist. Or maybe a MAEM calendar decorates your desk in your office or cabin? We gave out hundreds of calendars over the New Year period, sending them out to ships along with ordered parts and giving them to our friends as New Year's gifts. A calendar, however attractive it may be, will lose its sparkle with the arrival of another year. Fortunately, paintings are timeless and can be easily saved from oblivion. These paintings will fit perfectly in our factory, giving some artistic magic to its industrial interiors. T h e o p enin g of th e gall er y of Mr. Andrew's paintings is a perfect culmination of a stage in our cooperation. Let us take this opportunity to go back to its beginnings for a moment. In March 2020, when the world was shaken by a pandemic, we decided to reprioritize Christmas gifts. In the face of the difficult situation that affected us all, we allocated part of the previously reserved funds to help animal shelters. We also decided that we would focus on support and that the magic of helping would be the theme of Christmas gifts in 2020. One of the elements of the gift was to be a calendar with seascapes of twelve countries, from which MAEM's major clients come from. We wanted the paintings to be created by someone special and that is how we found the
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