Marguerite Takvorian-Holmes

"My field studies are faithful to the scenes that surround me. These sketches are the notes i use for my studio paintings. However, It is there that improvisation takes a central role, defining a visual concept which better renders the impression I received in nature. Although I try to be faithful to the images I represent and to nature’s harmonies, I often find myself simplifying and abandoning details and learned formulas that encumber the directness of the experience felt in nature to reach the essence of the vision that stroke me."

"I came to this country at 25 years old and studied At the Art's students League in NYC for about 10 years. I studied painting with Frank Mason, and drawing with Robert Beverly Hill. Latter on I play with abstractions in the class of Richard Poussette-Dart and stayed with it for 14 years. However, when I moved to Washington County in early 2000 I got charmed again by the beauty of the landscape of the area and picked up realism again. Voila!"