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- Relationship status
- married
- College / University
- Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
- Program
- Printmaking
- Graduation
- 1 June 1996
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Drawing, Installation, Painting, Photography, Printmaking
- About my artwork
- Maggie Mowbray’s work encompasses minimalist inscriptions of black and white fragile lines meeting with mass and landscape. The process of mark making is central to her practice, the energy bound in making the mark and in the spaces between, connecting hand, eye and mind in a non-verbal dialogue.
Her current work focus is that of our Coastline, organic growth and movement made solid by nature and our interaction. The continuous deterioration by the sea and wind, but which with every action creates new forms and life.
This process of creation and destruction is echoed in the making of her work. She uses mixed media; inks, pastels, graphite, charcoal, thread, wool, wire, silk, paper pulp and paper cuts, exploiting the distinct qualities of each medium. Images are torn and overlapped, collaged and recreated; the process is a determining factor in the marks made and in the final outcome. The drawings are mainly achromatic which allow the forms to relate with the surrounding paper. She rejects theories normally applied to drawing, in favour of a complete openness towards materials and processes.
- The centre of the artworld is
- Beijing
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Open to all artists in all fine arts media we seek to recognize outstanding quality and diversity in the arts.
The 2009 IJC is open to all artists worldwide, age 18 and older. All works must be original. Entries in the following medias will be accepted: Painting, Drawing, Mixed media, Printmaking, Watercolor, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Photography.
Entry Deadline February 15th 2009.
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A solo show next winter 2009 at Bluebird Art House and $1500 to the winner. 1 work in the show for each one of the 3 runner up.
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(hello from brazil)
i like your drawings,
mainly the two 'untitled'.
best wishes!
Simple as in abstracting taking away the detials and leaving only the essentials. or braking something down till its main structure. or shape, such as say in a cezanne, or a brancusi. , or even say that famous one by Rembrant, of the women bathinh her feet in water, I remember so much topic based just on the paint work of , i think the right arm. or colour. remains, or something remaining pure in thought and atitude
without care for isms. and its known often nieve painters prefers detials
such as adding in each eye lash with the stroke of a good sable brush
But yes, i use this matarial, because of its avialability, and i have no money, to spend on real art shop matariels such as oil paints, and thiers more dust and muck floating about in the air, than thier was in the golden days of oil paint. yes you can get cheap canves on stretchers, but it all looks a bit kitch the way the artshops present art goods these days, all in fancy contianers and rappers, i hate this kind of popularity
i think that the artist has to be like a nomad go the oposit direction of gimicks and fads. but yes, i use it as the same reason as you, but i have other things plaaned i hope for the futcher work. i do not like to be in a closet or pinned downd to i am this kind of artist
Its all a bit art school attitude. though i get the feeling things are changing, with the schools a bit ...yrs... R A
that it might go unoticed in large compostions such as a battle seen.
or a contour of a mountian side, that is what i like about your work
fresh and pure, and something holding both your nature and the matarials,
and catching the elemants of the day for example perhaps some of the dirt got traped in to the paper you had been using, and the damp stians give you the feel of what type of wether you can feel it in thier.
Good greif, Scotland, Nether crossed my mind about showing in scotland!, i have never gone further than the town i live in, and perhaps a small bus journey away, well its all down to finance. But yes i will let you know iff and when i show work up in scotland. next year i should start thinking a bit further a field.... but its all... Finance...finance... finance. yrs... R A
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Pease stay tuned as i will be uploading about 5 new works at end of sep in preparation for a november exhibition. Some of the pieces feature cuttings of painted cork and sandpape and also photographs which might resonate with what you are doing.
Please stayin touch, luke ::]]
please make more - {!!} best, luke ::]]
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