Artist: Maggie Hasbrouck

Medium: Photo-encaustic

Size: 38" X 4" x 42"

About the Artist:

Maggie Hasbrouck has been living and working as an artist in Atlanta for almost thirty years. She began receiving major national acclaim in the early 1990s when her work was collected by celebrities including Elton John, John Mellencamp, Faith Hill, Jon Bon Jovi, and Courtney Cox, as well as a broad cross-section of collectors across the United States. Her work is the epitome of the intersection of classical beauty and contemporary concept. To this day, Maggie Hasbrouck remains one of the best-collected female artists in the South and a growing force on the national stage. She is represented in Atlanta by the Bill Lowe Gallery.

In her latest body of work, Hasbrouck returns to dramatic depictions of flowers - often single blooms - at the apex of their transformational beauty. The vibrancy and sensuality of these images is heightened by the artist's technique. Hasbrouck combines digital imagery, multiple layers of oil paint, dry pigment, and organic beeswax, resulting in a lustrous layer that enhances the mystery of the work. Throughout the course of her career, Maggie's technical ingenuity and imaginative subject matter have helped her gain recognition from collectors and critics alike. Her paintings possess a deep emotionality that is achieved through a rich, dark picture plane illuminated by an enigmatic light source. The flowers seem to exist in a state of Grace, in-between reality and a dream-like state of transcendence.