Margie Sheppard lives at Kangarilla, in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where she works in her studio as a printmaker and painter. Her practice now spans 30 years. In that time, she has spent a long period working exclusively as a printmaker, making large densely coloured etchings for which she has become well known. In recent years she has returned to oil painting and she is currently dividing her time between painting and printmaking. Both these practices hold different but equally strong attractions for her.
Margie Sheppard’s new paintings and etchings show a transition to the simplest forms, leaving behind the figuration of her previous work. Simplicity and strength dominate.
Margie’s new work has the same sensibility as her previous figurative images. The stillness and dream-like quality remain.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Image above: Margie Sheppard Bright Turn woodcut on paper 71 x 107 cm, 100 x 135 x 4 cm. Margie …
Image above: Margie Sheppard Monument 2 2017 etching edition 25 90 x 79 cm ‘Abstraction allows me to glimpse a …
Image above: Orest Keywan That Line 2023 steel 168 x 271 x 190cm Congratulations to Orest Keywan, Michael Snape and …
