Margaret Saylor
Mt Penn, PA
Designer, instructor, artist. Fungi, mushrooms, plants. Watercolor, graphite, egg tempera. Contemporary naturalism, botanical art, graphic design.
MessageMargaret Saylor is a working studio artist who creates paintings and drawings inspired by mushrooms and fungi. She teaches botanical painting in person and online, emphasizing the importance of observation, good drawing skills, and enthusiasm. A graphic designer, Margaret holds a BFA from Kutztown University and a certificate, with distinction, in botanical art from the New York Botanical Garden. Since 2013, she has been the editor and designer of The Botanical Artist, a quarterly journal published by the American Society of Botanical Artists. Her work on vellum, Rabbit’s Foot Fern, will be included in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation’s 17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration in Fall 2024. She is the co-founder of the Contemporary Naturalism Guild of Art.
Botanical art is a beautiful fusion of art and science. In Margaret’s artistic practice, she is drawn to mushrooms and fungi and their surrounding environment. She works on calfskin vellum or deerskin parchment, using watercolor sparingly and graphite primarily to create ethereal and intricate representations of her subjects, achieving the desired level of crispness, highly defined detail, and exacting interpretation of botanical subjects that she strives for in her work. Her egg tempera work explores the juxtaposition of botanical images over modern spaces.
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