Maggie Dawson
The inspiration for my work comes in many ways; it may be the challenge of a print exchange, an exhibition or the response to a life event. The content is inspired by a deep love of the natural world, living a simpler life, and a regard for the multiplicity of life that surrounds me in my garden. I have a collection of natural objects ranging from sculptural seed pods to broken parts of insects to feed my curiosity at the amazing structures nature has built.
A chance comment while studying art led me into printmaking and then joining the Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand which provided many opportunities to learn from experienced printmakers both national and international.
Inspired by UK artists Deb Wing and Joshua Miles I have been using reduction linoprint in a less graphic, more informal way. Using transparent colours and multicoloured layers, spontaneously responding to the print as it comes of the press with each new layer
I have had the pleasure of seeing my work exhibited most recently in New York and also Japan, Spain and the UK as well as NZ.
“The inspiration for my work comes from a deep love of the natural world, living a simpler life, and a regard for the multiplicity of life that surrounds me in my garden.”
— Maggie Dawson
Breathe
Reduction linoprint
230 x 347mm
$450
Halfway up
Reduction linoprint
250 x 347mm
$450 unframed
To a Rose
Reduction linoprint
158 x 185mm
$180 unframed
Rock Garden
Reduction lino print
285mm x 285mm
$265 unframed
Whatever the weather
Reduction linoprint
230 x 343mm
$450
The Lunch Queue
Reduction lino print
283mm x 280mm
$265
Breakfast at Granny Smith's
reduction lino print
SOLD
Into the light
Reduction linoprint
157 x 345mm
$265
Pondering
Reduction lino print
298mm x 205mm
$250
Splash
Reduction lino print
215mm x 120mm
$153
Godwit
Reduction linoprint
175mm x 250mm
$153
Humpty Dumpty and the girls
Reduction linoprint
175mm x 250mm
$180