Maslak McLeod Gallery - Margaret Florence Ludwig
Bio:Margaret is an artist who goes out into the field with her oils and shingles to sketch. She then comes back to her studio on Palmerston and works the sketches into the finished canvases. Margaret's fields are the fields of the high Arctic: Pangnirtung, Dorset, and Arctic Labrador. Margaret Ludwig is a vital seventy-two years of age. Her studio is a wonderful place filled with the artistic accumulation of an art lifetime. Margaret is professional, strong minded, and dedicated to the classic approach of creation in oils.
OCA,
Member of the Arts and Letters Society,
exhibits widely both in Canada and internationally.
Woman - Early woman in a straw hat. A warm, romantic, early work. Woman
Oil on Canvas. 10" / 12" - 1990's
- Arctic, glacial, shore ice. Steely exposition in disorder
Landscape
Oil on Canvas. 10" / 12" - 1990's
- Ludwig has always claimed that there is much more colour in the high arctic than we realize. She frequently paints onsite as the sun alters the colouration.
Landscape
Oil on Canvas. 10" / 12" - 1990's
- Floating ice masses to an indistinct horizon. These smaller paintings are done onsite in one sitting, and not altered in the studio.
Landscape
Oil on Canvas. 10" / 12" - 1990's
Ð Ludwig is a master at the quick sketch nude. No one in Canada captures shape, movement, and content better. (series available)
Nude
Oil on Canvas. 10" / 12" - 1990's
- Painted at the same time as the girl in the straw hat - a valiant presence.
Portrait
Oil on Canvas. 10" / 12" - 1990's