Margriet Hogue: Through My Window

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Margriet Hogue, "Early Morning Sun," 2018

mixed media and cold wax, 20" x 20"

First Friday Red Deer February 1^st from 6pm to 8 pm.  Musician Jaydin Vonkeman will be performing.

Artists will be in attendance.

Margriet Hogue’s series of mixed media works blends photorealism with abstract characteristics to illustrate her unique view on nature. 

Hogue uses her own photographic images of flora and fauna as the focal points of her work. A number of images were literally taken through her window, overlooking her garden. Others were shot in Red Deer’s park system or while travelling through the mountains. Observing the natural world, whether in the wilderness or an urban setting, offers a different experience of time and how the cyclical seasons have so much to teach about the significance of life.

Originally, I start with abstraction and use it a great deal for backgrounds, but then I add photo-transfers to this from my own reference photos that I take when I’m out and about. I find I like a certain amount of realism and find that, generally, people relate to it better and it’s important to me that I use my own photographs.  

I’m finding that my work is becoming more abstract and larger but it is all still influenced by line, colour and texture, which comes from my textile background. - Margriet Hogue