Margaret Ann Withers Joins Art Collection NYC

"I start a painting with a story,  a narrative of sorts that is formed as I paint, but as I continue, the original story gets flipped and skewed on the paper and the icons and characters of my story become remnants of the original story.   I like to use tiny houses as a symbol in my paintings because their simplicity obscures the complex and uniquely personal relationship that each viewer has to an idea of ‘home’.  The telephone poles are a universal and quickly fading icon of communication that symbolize emotional connection, formality, privacy, disconnection and alienation. The mouth and eyes - well, that's the real mystery in my paintings. I’m always curious and excited to see how my internalized storytelling when I paint, manifests itself on the paper.I start a painting with a story,  a narrative of sorts that is formed as I paint, but as I continue, the original story gets flipped and skewed on the paper and the icons and characters of my story become remnants of the original story.   I like to use tiny houses as a symbol in my paintings because their simplicity obscures the complex and uniquely personal relationship that each viewer has to an idea of ‘home’.  The telephone poles are a universal and quickly fading icon of communication that symbolize emotional connection, formality, privacy, disconnection and alienation. The mouth and eyes - well, that's the real mystery in my paintings. I’m always curious and excited to see how my internalized storytelling when I paint, manifests itself on the paper".