Inspired by place and word, Marguerite Malwitz designs pictures in fabric. Coastal imagery, roadside New England, boxy architecture, stories of faith, and cross-cultural travel inspire narratives of experience and belief.
"Often when I travel, I am inspired by a single image.
Back in the studio my work table is spread with my own photography, sketches, creative materials, fabric, and other documentation collected on the trip. Then it begins!. . . the wonderful challenge of reducing inspiring imagery into simple hardedge, colorful graphic designs."
Inspired by trips to art museums from an early age she counts
Homer, Breugel, Matisse and Rothko among those who have most challenged her own artistic journey with color, design and inspiration.
Marguerite Malwitz's fabric art has been shown in museums, art centers and galleries around the US and abroad. She has traveled with her work internationally. Her art work is displayed in US, South American, European Central Asian and Pacific Rim collections.
She has been an artist all her life and works in a large studio designed on the east wing of her Connecticut home where spectacular sunrises greet her early creative hours.
