About the Artist & the Work

Marguerite Moreau McCarthy’s oil paintings celebrate the oftenoverlooked beauty of light, shadow, reflection and refraction seen in commonplace objects. As a painter, she manipulates color, line, and form to echo the symbiotic relationship she observes between the mundane and the divine.

Mothers’ Day Bouquet explores the emotional impact of a gift of flowers through textural layers of paint, embellished with gestural sgraffito drawing. The overlapping patches of color reveal dancing shadows and highlights in this joyful work.

McCarthy invites quiet introspection with Apples and Pitcher, layering richly colored brushstrokes to expose a quiet stillness and reverence for surface qualities of this piece’s elements of fruit, glass, and wood.

In Teatime, the artist interprets the properties of light with casually placed objects on a marble table. Here, she applies thick paint as well as engraved lines to describe variations in hue, intensity, and value in this arrangement.