Taking time
For several years, Margot worked in marketing for large companies. It was a fast world, where everything is launched, measured and replaced.
One day she wanted a different pace, and work that felt more like her own. She picked up a dip pen and a bottle of Indian ink again.
Ink can't be rushed. Every shadow is made of hundreds of small lines, laid down one by one, and nothing can be erased. You have to look for a long time before you draw. Margot draws the things we no longer take the time to look at: an agapanthus at the end of summer, a ginkgo leaf, a pine cone picked up on a walk, the underside of a mushroom.
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This work became the Limited editions: each drawing is printed 50 times on fine art paper and numbered by hand.
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Then her children were born. For their rooms, she drew their cuddly toys with the same patience: a lion with a tousled mane, a lamb made of curls, a little bear. Each child's name is written just below. That became The Menagerie.
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The children are growing up, and Margot is giving herself time again. She is exploring painting, colour and texture, slowly, in one-of-a-kind pieces. They aren't ready yet. They will be in time.
The StudioA few pieces, made slowly, made to last: that's all she is after.
Margot lives and draws between Uzès and Brittany.
