29 July – 28 October 2025
1441 Monterey Ave., Victoria, BC V8S4W1
MWFS 10am-6pm / TTh 10am-7pm
About the Artist and Work:
I am a visual artist, painting and drawing being my chosen mediums at this time. I work both in my studio and directly outdoors: painting with oils and watercolours, and drawing with multimedia.
I love to be out in nature and am a keen gardener and walker.
Having attained a BFA many years ago, I then worked and raised a family, and am now retired and able to re-engage my art practice.
Most of my work of late has been landscape based and I am very interested in contemporary landscape painting.
I often document my rambles with my iPhone camera. When a particular image catches my interest, I use it as a starting point. As I paint from a photo I reinterpret and reembody my experience of being there…the quality of light, the mood, the textures, the scale of nature.
I often juxtapose the built and natural world in my work: the organized, geometric hard-edge constructs against the wild, natural abundance of the natural world.
The formal concerns of contemporary painting is an ongoing reference for me as the painting progresses, with the instinctive and intuitive responses to the paint, the colour palette, and the dynamics of the composition.
The painting usually lets me know when it is finished; I am no longer needed!
https://www.margarethantiuk.com/
