Southwest Art Selects

Artists to Watch

Margret E. Short

My works of art represent the profound excitement I feel when light touches objects in a dramatic way," says painter Margret E. Short. "Color and lush paint are tools I use to bring lasting light to moments of tranquility." Short Paints in the chiaroscuro style of the Dutch School, which emphasizes the effects of light and shadow by illuminating the focal point with strong light and painting other areas with less detail and lower values. Short uses the materials of the old masters: lead-primed linens, pure pigments, and resin/oil medium. "Technique and materials in painting are as important as the result," she says. One of Short's floral still lifes, PRELUDE, won the 1998 Salmagundi Club Award at New York's Salmagundi Club Exhibition. Short is represented by Contemporary Southwest Galleries, Santa Fe, NM; Huntsman Gallery, Aspend, CO; Chasen Galleries, Sarasota, FL., and Richmond, VA; Heritage Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; and Yoshida's Fine Art Gallery, Troutdale, OR.

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* After just three months as a member of the prestigious Salmagundi Club of New York City, painter Margret Short of Milwaukie, OR, won the Salmagundi Club Award at the club's Member Summer Exhibit for the Painting PRELUDE.

Southwest Art * November 1998