Storm of a Lifetime © Margo Cavis
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| "I love to paint in oils and to scuba dive, and it all comes together in my art." Margo paints metaphorical dreamscapes inspired from underwater sights and her personal struggles and emotions. Each painting twists and floats, pushes and pulls without gravity in a vivid weightlessness, submerged in a colorful place as recognizable as it is strange. |  |
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Influenced. Margo takes underwater photographs as she glides
by a shipwreck, school of sharks or an octopus. She also loves
to photograph the other divers and later in the studio, these
photographs turn to paint and become important parts of her paintings.
Margo began scuba diving in 2002 and fell in love with the sport.
Instantly she fell in love with the other world, below the surface
of the sea. The physical feelings when floating weightless, the
sounds of your breathing and the bubbles influence her painting.
Many of the strange and beautiful animals that she encounters
while diving excite and become her artistic muse. Margo’s paintings often mix together realistic underwater scenes with a nude woman with long red hair. The woman is sometimes bound or surrounded by her protecting companions, the fish; sometimes the woman is half invisible or swimming happily like a mermaid near a shipwreck like the one Margo visited in Cyprus. “Since my work usually begins as an inspiration, idea or just a "flash" it generates an instant desire and need to paint. Sometimes I envision an image of a finished piece and work towards that. Most of the time, just a sense or a feeling is my motivation for starting and then the painting seems to take on a life of its own. It evolves and changes, almost as if it is telling me what to do, therefore the result, is not always what I expected to happen. My best art happens when I surrender myself to the creative process without worrying what the finished painting will look like.” “One of the hardest things about the art that I do is what to say when people want to know the meaning of one of my paintings. I would much rather allow people to draw their own conclusions, come up with their own story - personalize it. If I can get the viewer to do that, if I can get each person to interpret the images in their own way, then I feel I have accomplished something really special. It is a piece of me - my soul, my vision, left vulnerable & exposed for everyone to see and to decide for themselves what it means to them.” |
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Margo is currently working on a project using underwater photography and her surreal painting style to help promote marine conservation. Check out the INFORMATION page for more updates! |
"I
just recently started a new painting series about the troubles
the ocean and lake population is facing today. I will be exploring
the devastating amount of "by-catch" as well as the unsustainable
fishing practices & more... still in my surrealistic style.." |
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| RECENT ART-RELATED TRAVEL | |
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Above - Margo photographing the fur seals in Tasmania,
Australia. Margo & her husband recently took a 3 week dive trip to
Australia - with diving in Tasmania & on the Great Barrier Reef. |
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EXHIBITIONS: Details Here |