Artist in Training….Artist at Work

We knew Meg was destined to be creative from a very young age. She loved her crayons and markers…..but she did struggle with the concept of confining her ideas to a sheet of paper. Sometimes crayons would "drift" over the edge of the paper, across her play table and then up the painted wall.
She was probably four and I remember we had many "discussions" and "explanations" about the proper use of artistic materials. (Some of those explanations were probably much louder than others.)

She had finger paints, she used clay, there was Play Doh. Art class at school was a favorite and early on her teachers told us she had talent and imagination. We encouraged her by finding art teachers after school so that she could take lessons. In high school she was an art major - that meant she enjoyed two classes of art every day, a select few students who did so.

Meg's interests helped her decide on a college and also decide to major in graphic design. But after graduation and working in the field for a few years she found that she did not enjoy the computer-generated-art that was graphic design. So she moved on.

Raising a young family her art took a "back seat" for a while…..but it was always part of her life. Her home decor reflected it. Her imagination came out in creative ways with her boys. And then, as they started school, she began to move back to exploring her artistic muse.

She found new ways to express the ideas floating around in her imagination and now does some wonderful pieces with multi-layers and ephemera put together to create collages. We love them and have several pieces hanging around the condo (no surprise there)! And she now has a studio space in West Bend and a piece hanging in an exhibition at MOWA and pieces at a gallery in Cedarburg.  Yesterday she was one of the guest artists invited to create a piece in real time at the Cedarburg Cultural Center. One of six artists displaying their creativity to the public as people wandered through the center. The goal was to have the pieces finished for a future fund-raising event.

We walked into the Center at the beginning of the busy day, and there was our daughter putting her ideas to canvas, creating a one-of-a-kind piece that will live in someone else's home. Crayons wandering off the edge of the paper - creativity spilling out - our artist at work.