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Purpose:
Why make art? Since our culture certainly doesn't need more stuff, I'll just defend Beauty and Truth. If, as I believe, truth
and beauty require the best of us, then aren't we always in need of more evidence, more information about them? Aren't we always in need of their acolytes?
Don't we need artists in all fields who might evoke, in physical space and time, some of the restorative power of these great Abstractions?
I believe the vocation of art is inherently spiritual.
By responding to the chaos and order we see around us and within us--the terrible beauties and simple truths of our lives
an artist constructs a record of facts, connections, and relationships. An honest walk in beauty lends grace to our lives.

Process:
It's not that subject matter is unimportant. Everything matters.
Artists will examine anything entering our field of vision. We make our particular paths flourish by paying attention and choosing for our work whatever stays with the heart and mind. Carl Jung put it eloquently:
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the object it loves."
I continually ponder the forces and the forms of nature.
I am besotted with certain large abstractions such as space
and time, also with formal and poetic abstractions of line and gesture and rhythm and contrast.
I love both delicate contours and raw slabs of color.
I seek to speak everything with the language of color.
The pictorial image will reflect whatever it is that engages me wholly; I do not wish to alter anything. Nor do I want to
capture or control or even describe the subject of my attention.
I do seek connection, discovery, a conversation, a dance...

Marguerite Fletcher