Maggie Rudd is both a mixed media painter and contemporary drawing artist, creating from her Taupo-based studio in Waikato, New Zealand. Her mixed media art usually has a strong sense of line and colour and is carefully built up with many layers of paint, pencil, ink, collage and markers.

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Her background in geography, maths and cartography all contribute to the composition and texture of the work she creates, being at the same time, loose and intuitive but having areas of fine detail within.

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She has also developed an individual way of contemporary drawing, influenced by the work of Georges Seurat, using tonal variation and shading, setting light against dark, using both geometric and organic forms to produce work that challenges spatial awareness. Her work is exacting and intricate, drawing the viewer into its depths.  

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Recently Maggie has delved more deeply into collage, hand-printing the papers she uses, ripping and cutting them, and adhering to watercolour paper, which has previously been drawn onto. She overlaps the papers, both when printing and during composition and uses transparent paint to great effect. 

 

Although these three areas of Art appear quite separate, Maggie has managed to bring her individual style and intuitive sense into each.