Keeping It

Simple

RIDGEFIELD — Margaret Foxmoore’s work has been shown extensively in New York City and throughout New England. Her works are featured in many private collections including those of Anna Quindlen, Hillary Clinton, Cecilia Bartoli, Janet Maslin, and Michi Katutani.

Using oils, watercolors, gold leaf, wax and lacquers, Ms Foxmoore paints her love of nature and the longing of the human soul that comes from a sight as small as a bee to one as explosive as a bomb. Many of her techniques utilize old-fashioned methods, including making her own paint colors with herbal dyes.

Ms Foxmoore’s work will be featured in an exhibition called “Margaret Foxmoore: Keeping It Simple” at The Garden of Ideas Gallery, July 5-27.

“Art has always been about capturing the terrible beauty and the magnificent truths in a form of permanence — a poem, a song, a sculpture, a painting — and in this respect I am the same as my predecessors struggling to make art that is beautiful regardless of the contents while working in the same materials as painters before me,” said Ms Foxmoore. “My vision, as well as the technologically advanced times we live in, may be different but my conviction to art remains the same.”

The Garden of Ideas is at 647 North Salem Road in Ridgefield, within eight acres of stroll and sculpture gardens. The garden and gallery are open on weekends only, 10 am to 4 pm. Visit www.GardenofIdeas.com or call 203-431-9914 for more info.