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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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Photography
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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