About the Artist
Margaret Grosspietsch began exploring photography during wilderness vacations and by documenting homegrown subjects—her own garden flowers. Time is wonderfully suspended while tending plants, providing Margaret with a sense of peace in her garden.
The goal of her photography is to create more than an identifiable "plant portrait" and render the feelings experienced in the garden or in the wilderness. She focuses intently on unusual characteristics, color, and textural combinations to read a plant's "body language."
Specific, distinguishing plant features are the initial entry point for Margaret's images. Her compositions translate human traits with which we can empathize, such as strength, vulnerability, innocence, or humor. Emotions can be hidden in larger scenes yet unexpectedly resonate in plain sight when she looks closely at her subjects.
Now making images in several new environments, Margaret continues to be inspired by emotional connections she interprets from the scene or object in her current photographic work.