Margaret Lockwood Featured in Community Foundation’s Winter Exhibit

“Trees” by Margaret Lockwood.

The community is invited to attend a reception on Jan. 23, 5 – 7 pm, at the Door County Community Foundation to open its Lobby Gallery Winter Exhibition featuring works by artist Margaret Lockwood.

Lockwood has a constant desire to paint canvases that create the feeling of space. Her tools are color relationships, layers of atmosphere, and rhythmic interludes. She says, “I want each work to gently welcome viewers into a peaceful place within the painting and within themselves. My work sometimes begins with looking at the surrounding landscape or often begins as a conversation with the painting before it.”

No matter how they are started, the real work comes in the doing, while she is in the middle of it all. Lockwood is required to have trust in the unknown and yet-to-be, remaining open to change and chance along the way, but also to direct the creation.

She shares, “I respond to the atmosphere and the private spaces and moments still to be found in our environment and daily lives as we have entered the 21st century. I am concerned with the layers of connection between our external world and that of our inner worlds, and how we relate to and are informed by our precious environment, each other, as well as our hopes and memories. I want to make visible the mysterious atmosphere of landscapes and spaces within us, our spiritual homes.”

The Community Foundation’s reception is being coordinated with the You Draw & Paint on What? exhibit at the Miller Art Museum that same evening.

Each quarter, different Door County artists will be invited to exhibit their work. The gallery is normally open to the public from 8 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. The Community Foundation is located at 342 Louisiana Street in Sturgeon Bay. For more information visit GiveDoorCounty.org.