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 Margaret Warren
 158 Oakwood Road, Kerrville, TX 78028
  margaret@ktc.com ,  830-896-2973 
www.jumping-goat.com

Margaret Warren is a native of Galveston, Texas, and a  graduate of  the  University  of  Texas  at Austin.     Her art  study includes work at  S.M.U. and at the  University   of  Colorado at Boulder.  Milford Zornes was an early teacher. More recent work concentrating on color and  design has been  with Wolf  Kahn and Alberto Mijangos.

 Margaret has earned Signature Status in Texas Watercolor Society, Southwestern Watercolor Society and the Nevada Watercolor Society.  She is a regular prize winning exhibitor in local and regional shows, most recently taking the San Antonio Art League Museum Purchase Prize for 2001 and the Guadalupe Watercolor Group’s James Avery Purchase Prize in 2002.  Her work has been featured in one and two person shows in Dallas and San Antonio galleries  and in the San Antonio Art League Contemporary Art Month Invitational for 2003.

 Milton Avery, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn are favorite artists.  Following in the tradition of these and others, Margaret uses simple shapes, expressive color and flattened space to talk about the enduring power of chosen subjects.  Recent series have included cypress tree patterns along the Guadalupe, cows in Hill Country pastures, big ships at Galveston Harbor, and impressions following September 11.  Her most current work uses pieces of monoprints and collographs in a series of collages. Boats and ships are the motifs used to explore the nature of different kinds of journeys.

 The Nueva Street Gallery in San Antonio, Texas, has represented her since 1992.  Gallery Soco in Austin, Texas and the 1550 Gallery in Kerrville, Texas are also currently showing her work.  Her work has been included in several issues of "Watermedia Focus" which is now "The Palette Magazine". Her work was featured on the cover of the December 2006 issue.  Her work has also been included in Artist’s  Magazine as well as in Color and Light for the Watercolor Painter by Christopher Schink..

  Gallery Shows

 A two-person show, “The American West”, Nueva Street Gallery, San Antonio, September 1994

 One person show featuring western landscapes, “West of Ft. Worth”, Milagro Gallery, Dallas, September-October, 1995

 A four-person show, Milagro Gallery, Dallas, May-June, 1996

 A two person show, “Seascapes and Mesas”, Nueva Street Gallery, San Antonio, March-April, 1997

 A four person show, Contemporary Art Month, Zara Gallery, San Antonio, July, 2000

 A group show, “Female Power”, Hill Country Art Foundation, August 2001

 A two person show, “Different Strokes”, 1550 Gallery, Kerrville, February-March, 2002

 San Antonio Art League Contemporary Art Month Invitational, July 2003

 

 
Artist’s Statement

 My current work both draws on old impressions of Galveston harbor and reflects current happenings in my world and in the larger world.   I have moved from images talking about changed world views following 9/11 to images using pieces of the big ships perhaps as symbols for timeless strength. These series were followed by pieces derived from graffiti on dockside warehouse walls with their cryptic messages, to a more recent interest in talking about journeys.  This  series uses pieces of monoprints and collographs as collage elements in work  in which boat and ship shapes appear  as motifs  in an exploration into facets of journeying.  Most recently I have begun to use Texas Hill Country images as motifs--cows in Hill Country pastures become stand ins presenting social commentary.  Cypress trees become guardians of the Hill Country and frogs and snakes play out their dramatic roles as predators and escape artists.