Peggy Trigg

painting

I was raised on a ranch in New Mexico; the land is what I love.

Bio

I paint the Southwest because I love the land! Being raised in the country, I have a strong tie to it. It’s a sense of deep emotions, of memory, and of history. While I am painting, I try to capture the feeling of the place, what is all around me: the smells, what I hear, and what I see – a complete picture.

My abstracts represent “My Other Side.” I play with emotions through color, shapes, and energy to make playful compositions.

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Peggy Trigg

About My Art

My goal when painting the landscape of the Southwest is to capture the essence of my senses. Most often I paint on location and work toward trying to capture what that environment tells me. I’m not worried about capturing exactly what I see, but rather the feeling of the place, maybe the breeze, the hot sun on my back or maybe the history of the scene. I work loose, trying to capture the essence fast, before it slips away. Most often, I complete most of the painting on location with just a few touch-ups in the studio.

I was raised on a ranch in New Mexico; the land is what I love. The materials I use vary. Sometimes I want the fast intensity of a larger brush stroke while working in acrylics and at other times, I work in oils using a spatula or large palette knife. The colors I lay down are not often the exact colors I see but rather, what the environment asks of me. I like to “push” the color.

I either work on cradled panel boards or, in my larger work, canvas. For paints, I use either Golden acrylics and mediums and Holbein WS Oils. My favorite tools include house-painting brushes, spatulas, and palette knives.

Viewers should feel a contemporary sense of place when they look at my work. I want them to feel that same breeze, hot sun, or cool wind. I want them to be immersed in that specific environment.