“My interest is in experience that is wordless and silent, and in the fact that this experience can be expressed for me in artwork, which is also wordless and silent.” – Agnes Martin I recently decided to start writing about women painters. While I know this has been done, these blogs focus specifically on women painters […]
Underpainting, as the word implies, is an initial layer of paint that generally serves as a base for the subsequent layers of paint that we, the viewer, regard as the finished work. Underpainting can help connect color values, creating a tonal foundation that adds coherence to the painting as a whole, and can help set […]
Midsummer’s Music has released a new CD, “A Bel Canto Summer,” and they used my painting “It Used to be Red” for the cover! This double CD features two amazing musicians: flutist Jean Berkenstock and violinist David Perry along with the rest of the incredible Midsummer’s Music Ensemble. Margaret, Jean and David will be on […]
Visual rhythm exists around us in all spaces and at all moments. What is meant exactly by the term “visual rhythm?” As an abstract concept, we may perhaps define “rhythm” as the perception of patterns. In music, we perceive recurring metric patterns—that is, events in sound that are separated by spaces—as rhythmic. Of course, the […]
On Sunday, June 11th from 4:00- 6:00pm, Margaret Lockwood Gallery in Sturgeon Bay will host a reading and book signing for Out the Door! by Marianna Beck writing under the name of M.L. Collins. All proceeds from sales of the book will go to benefit Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. A satirical novel set in Door […]