12th-21st SEPTEMBER 2025
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2024

Maggie Hargreaves

Painting/Drawing

Artist Statement

The romantic sublime in nature is a theme I frequent; our place in the grand scheme of things, connection to nature, the power of natural forces.
I delight in exploring new processes and materials. Working from photographs and sketches made while walking, as a starting point, I create large-scale charcoal drawings, paintings and etchings, which evolve in the making.
I am interested in that vacillation between entering the pictorial space of a painting or drawing, and surface or marks bringing you back. My paintings become partly abstracted, as mark-making and the object produced are as important as the image inside.

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Title 'Dancing through the Woods', charcoal on paper, 70x100cm framed. Based on the woodland around the Black Rocks above Cromford, Derbyshire, this large drawing places you in the magical woodland where the light falls across the trees and paths, seeming to dance as the branches move.
Title ‘Quarry Shift’, Charcoal and acrylic ink on paper, 100x45cm framed. Sitting quiet, sketching the monolithic old quarry above Wirksworth, feeling small, I become part of the resurgence of life; birds twittering and flitting, catkins, plants, mosses, buzzards mewling overhead. The old workplace shifting, nature regaining its place.
Title ‘Quarry Shift’, Charcoal and acrylic ink on paper, 100x45cm framed. Sitting quiet, sketching the monolithic old quarry above Wirksworth, feeling small, I become part of the resurgence of life; birds twittering and flitting, catkins, plants, mosses, buzzards mewling overhead. The old workplace shifting, nature regaining its place.
Title ‘High up on wild boar fell’, acrylic , 60x80cm framed. Mallerstang in Cumbria is wild and there was dramatic weather that day’s long walk. Distant clear skies were overshadowed here with the dark threat of rain and snipe stood motionless as I watched, then blended into the textures of the land.
Title ‘High up on wild boar fell’, acrylic , 60x80cm framed. Mallerstang in Cumbria is wild and there was dramatic weather that day’s long walk. Distant clear skies were overshadowed here with the dark threat of rain and snipe stood motionless as I watched, then blended into the textures of the land.
Title ‘The Red Trees’, acrylic, 50x40cm framed. Sunbiggin, Cumbria, sheep farming land. The Hawthorns dotted across the hillside glow red as berries linger after the foliage dropped.
Title ‘The Red Trees’, acrylic, 50x40cm framed. Sunbiggin, Cumbria, sheep farming land. The Hawthorns dotted across the hillside glow red as berries linger after the foliage dropped.