BITTERSWEET BRANCHES WITH LEMONS

Artist: Maggie Shepherd

Medium: Oil on canvas

24" x 30"

Maggie’s work is available at Beckett Fine Art in Hamilton, Canvas Gallery in Toronto and Art and Light Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina. Her work resides in private and corporate collections across Canada, the USA and abroad. She has shown her work in many area galleries and is an alumni of Dundas Valley School of Art, where she completed the fulltime Advanced Studio in Fine Art program. Maggie studied at the International School of Art in Italy and attended painting courses in Umbria Italy and the USA.  

Artist’s Statement  
I love using light and line to create paintings. The forgiving and dramatic oil medium allows me to experiment and hunt for connections on the canvas, allowing the work to evolve in an abstract expressionist way. I seek to express a unique interpretation of the subject, always trying to make a better painting. I work in painterly style, loose and spontaneous. My landscapes are often completed en plein air. 

Bonnard, Morandi and Matisse have all inspired me to find freshness and beauty in the everyday – a bowl or piece of fruit, a fold of cloth, and capturing elements of landscape. 

I spend a lot of time in nature. I collect information on site and work on small sketches. When satisfied, I start painting with a big brush and the shapes and patterns emerge. The fun and discipline is choosing which to enhance and which to tune out. It is this “process” stage of painting that I love so much, when all the possibilities and options are vying for consideration. 

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