Margriet Hogue

The Curiously Strong, Abstract Painting

2019

Artist Comments
Margriet Hogue paints a black tree over a lively collaged composition. Birds nest within its meager branches. Margriet affixes pages from various materials to add bold points of interest. She cuts pages and arranges them in an ascending direction. Accents of pink pop from the distressed background.

About the Artist
Artist Margriet Hogue creates layered mixed media paintings inspired by "the contours of the land, the distressed surfaces and the colors of the different seasons," as she explains. Born in the Netherlands, Margriet's family moved to Venezuela when she was 6 months old, and then immigrated to Canada when she was in middle school. As a child, her mother taught her various fiber crafts. Buying her first loom allowed Margriet to pay her way through college, and after graduating, she spent years producing textiles and clothing. Unfortunately, the dust from weaving aggravated her child's asthma, so she started a needlework business called The Essamplaire (old French for sampler). "Whenever we would be on holidays I'd make appointments with museums to see their sampler collections and would request licensing agreements to reproduce them in the form of needlework kits," explains Margriet. "Samplers were part of a girl’s education from the 1500s to the early 1900s and consisted of them stitching alphabets, pictorial images and quaint verses." In 2014, Margriet attended an acrylic painting workshop, which she describes as very freeing after the fine and detailed work involved in needlework. Today, when she's not painting, she enjoys road trips through the mountains to the west coast, visiting family who live far and wide, and continuing to oversee her needlework business.

Words that describe this painting: abstract, mixed media, collage, branches, script, text, abstract, mixed media artwork, grey

The Curiously Strong
Margriet Hogue
Acrylic paint and paper collage on wood
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2019
36 in. h x 36 in. w x 1.5 in. d
8 lbs. 7 oz.