Artist
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"I have always made images and expressed
myself visually, but had no conscious
intention of becoming a painter. Then
in my early Thirties, I visited a gallery
and was angry with myself for the next
three weeks. I eventually realized that
I would have to paint. I was scared to,
because it requires honesty, a loss of
control to some degree, and no doubt criticism
from within and without."
The
Artist
Her oils often depict people but it would
be wrong to simply describe Magerl as a
portrait artist. She is more a painter of
feelings the fact that there is a person
in the picture is not exactly accidental
but rather than being obsessed with line
and shape. Magerl seems much more concerned
with getting the mood right. The result
is truly a picture from the heart as well
as a window in to her private and public
worlds.
These days Magerl's outer world is a house
in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, a few
minutes drive out of Eumundi. She and her
family moved there several years ago in
response to a need to get out of the tightness
of suburbia and to follow a dream to live
a more unfettered life with chooks, a dog
and a rural view from the front deck. The
move was one factor that has affected the
content and mood of Magerl's paintings over
the past five years.
By Sandra McLean
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