Margaret
R. Thompson
Margaret R. Thompson (b. 1990, Washington D.C.) is a painter living and working in Northern New Mexico. Filtering reality through her own mythology, she weaves synesthetic responses to poetry, explorations of ritual, and a reverence to the natural world into small to large narrative paintings. Her paintings—objects made of oil, wax, raw pigment, earth, and varied surfaces—depict fantastical worlds where the spirit reigns. Each piece is a tribute to the artist’s interest in the sacred - a universal sacred that exists in the corners of our psyches. The subjects in Margaret’s paintings live between our physical realm and spaces beyond the categories of known experience. Enigmatic beings, like phantoms, protect boxes holding mysteries, transmute potions into Spring, tell stories in a half deity half bird body, and are birthed from shells to the sound of harp music. Elements mingle to make medicine to heal tired hearts. Wild reeds frame scenes alluding to the divine order of nature. Margaret’s work is a meditation on the mystery and possibilities of our collective life force. Having lived in and constantly in awe of the coastlines of Northern California, the jungle of Mexico’s Yucatan, and the high desert of New Mexico, she makes art that asks us to appreciate the magic of creation.
GALERÍA