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Margaret Adams
USA
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“I refer to my paintings as the weaving of layers of paint put together.”
Artist Margaret Adams’ landscape paintings are a result of spending a lot of time outdoors, observing nature. She has spent many years hiking around Ohio, where she lives, and the mountains in Vermont and New Hampshire. She enjoyed their peace, tranquility, and beauty.
Tasumsac Mountain | Oil
$800.00
18 X 24
For this mountain painting Margaret Adams choose exaggerated beautiful colors instead of making this painting a replica of realism of subject matter. She enjoys playing with color.
Just being able to capture even a little of the wild charm of the mountains and making it her own in its colors and textures elates Margaret to a great extent. She is drawn to exaggerated color schemes that add a touch of richness, life, and presence to her paintings. She believes nature has a healing effect on the viewer and it feeds the soul in its search for beauty.
Fanette Island | Oil
$800
20 X 24
For Fanette Island the artist wanted to create a lake scene very inviting to take a swim in, with a hill in the background.
Nature, given its own devices, could have been quite ugly but instead, it is breathtakingly beautiful or at least, very interesting, as if it has been designed by a great artist. Margaret sees this as a kind of love note to the creation for her enjoyment and wonder.
“We live in a fantastic world with all its broad strokes and complexities.”
Sometimes Margaret leaves background brushstrokes to be just a suggestion or hint of form, leaving the foreground to be more fleshed out or expressive and to have a greater depth. Some paintings dissolve in texture and light such as her painting, “Sunrise over Bloomsberry Hill,” hinging on abstraction.
Edge of the Sea | Oil
$800
18 X 24
Here the artist wanted to create a sea painting with a Caribbean color.
Sunrise over Bloomsberry Hill has a nod to abstraction as the subject matter dissolves into darker colors.
Sunrise over Bloomsberry Hill | Oil
$800
18 X 24
Margaret’s interest in art started as a child of three years. One of her grandmothers was a painter highly influenced by the artists Matisse and Cezanne. Even as a child, the artist was fascinated by her grandmother’s beautiful sense of color and composition.
“My favorite painting among all my works is ‘Tasumsac Mountain,’ rendering mountains in all their majestic glory and size.”
“I enjoy observing changing seasons, with a preference for spring and summer scenery where there is much more room for a variety of color palettes.”
Margaret’s grandmother painted still lives and birds, and drew wonderful portraits. By the time the artist attained three years of age, she wanted to be a painter, which, with the passage of time, turned out to be a lifelong dream. As a child, the artist won the first prize in an art show by making a linoleum cut which truly inspired her as a child.
White Frosted Pond | Oil
$800
26 X 22
In this painting plants growing around the pond gives a sense of movement to this composition
Little Margaret spent most of her time playing outdoors, especially in forests, with a fascination with the shape of trees and hills. Hand-sculpting with clay, drawing, and painting in high school were some of Margaret’s favorite activities. As a senior in high school, she graduated with an ‘Outstanding Senior in Art Award’.
Maples in Flames | Oil
$800
18 X 20
Here again Margaret plays with colorful fall scene.
She pursued art in college with a BFA in fine arts from Ohio University with a focus on painting. The different art media she studied include sculpture, hand building with clay, printmaking, two and three-dimensional designs, watercolors, oil painting, figure modeling in clay, and drawing with various others.
Spring Morning plays with shapes and color of a hill and trees
Spring Morning | Oil
$800
18 X 24
“One of my college professors once told me that my paintings have a ‘presence’ to them, a uniqueness that was original to my craft.”
Garden Blossoms | Oil
$800
18 X 24
In Garden Blossoms the background is just a suggestion of forms which causes the foreground to stand out.
In the last thirteen years, Margaret began to paint consistently, almost every day. Beginning with animals, landscapes, and then some man-made landscapes. All that evolved into focusing on natural landscapes.
Gregorin Cliffs focuses on a scene of dark shadows illuminating the middle ground of the cliffs.
Gregorian Cliffs | Oil
$800
18 X 18
The first art show Margaret participated in was in the same city, Athens, Ohio, where she resides at present. Over time, she has participated and won in many other such shows. Laguna Art Gallery Show, NYA Art Center NYC, a page in Spotlight Magazine's fall issue, American Professional Artist League Show are some of those.
Still Pond |Oil
$800
18 X 18
Still pond renders a sense of pease, and quiet calm..
“Natural landscape at present is my favorite subject matter.”
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