VICKI P. MAGUIRE

DURING her childhood in rural Massachusetts, Vicki Maguire discovered her first art classroom where the woods ran deep and ponds of fish were abundant. Nature was an inherent passion explored in her poetry, drawings and songs, and all of God’s creation was her inspiration.

After graduating from New Mexico State University, her career in technical writing took her to the Bay Area—and yet another classroom with an abundance of coastal landscapes. During an exploration of the beauty of Carmel, she realized her desire to paint. Her many and far-reaching travels, including plein air painting in rural France, as well as her 23 years residing in Charleston, add to her depth as a coastal artist.

Painting largely in an impressionistic style, Maguire prefers oil on linen applied with a palette knife for a thicker look and multidimensional feel. “Painting is a diary of the beauty seen and felt on canvas,” she says. Maguire’s work can be found online and in the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and Atrium Health’s Breast Cancer Lobby in Pineville, North Carolina, in addition to fine art galleries and private collections around the country.