Marg’s art is an eclectic mix, to say the least. Instead of a series with similar topics and colours, Marg has worked with recurring themes of figures, encroachment i.e., farms being lost to cities, old cities being replaced by condos. She has done a series about Canada ranging from realistic to semi-abstract. An enduring love is the Inuksuk, a symbol of our Inuit culture. Most work is in acrylic but collage is sometimes there as well.
Marg began her artistic career as a watercolourist and, like others, has “gone to the dark side” and taken up acrylics and mixed media, print making and collage.
During the second stage of her artistic journey, she has had the wonderful opportunity to explore acrylics for several years, with both Steve Rose, Kim Lee Kho and Kal Honey at Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke, Ontario. Acrylic abstracts, semi-abstracts and figurative works have allowed her to explore her artistic soul as she hasn’t done since she was a child. It is exciting to follow the ideas that seem to come from some uncharted inner source and to see what happens on a canvas. Painting with acrylics, creating abstracts or semi-abstracts, working with collage and exploring the figure in acrylics, are the joys of her life now. Recently she studied print-making with Jane Geard, Victoria Cowan, Agustine Rojas and John Ming Mark.
In the last several years, she has been proud to show her work at the Twist Gallery, The Art Square Cafe, the Kumf Gallery, The Laurier Gallery, the Glenn Williams’ Gallery as well as at The Holcim Gallery at the Milton Centre for the Arts and at the Headwaters Gallery at the Alton Mill with groups called Critical Mass and Art by 9. She has had recent shows at the Imagemakers Gallery in Port Credit and the Second Cup in Mississauga with three others.
Marg continues to take classes to improve skills and to connect with other artists. After being side-lined from her teaching career with rheumatoid arthritis 20 years ago, Art has become her life and a driving force in keeping her moving and creative.
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