Maggie Starcher
Greenhouse View, 2012
Watercolor and Acrylic on Hand-Dyed Canvas
15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Currently on exhibition at The Art Store through April 20, 2012. View the entire Kindred Spirits exhibition online.
"Late Bloomers" By Malcolm Gladwell
“But she believed in her husband’s art, or perhaps, more simply, she believed in her husband, the same way Zola and Pissarro and Vollard and—in his own, querulous way—Louis-Auguste must have believed in Cézanne. Late bloomers’ stories are invariably love stories, and this may be why we have such difficulty with them. We’d like to think that mundane matters like loyalty, steadfastness, and the willingness to keep writing checks to support what looks like failure have nothing to do with something as rarefied as genius. But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it’s just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.”
Maggie Starcher
Towards the End
Watercolor on Paper
5 x 8 inches
Recipient of the Award of Excellence in the 2011 West Virginia Juried Exhibition presented by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and The Stifel Fine Arts Center. It is now part of the permanent collection of the West Virginia State Museum.