About Margret Trimborn

Discovery

Margret was born and grew up in Bonn (Germany). Due to her families interest in arts she started visiting museums and art exhibitions as teenager. Margret studied history of art and archeology in Bonn and Vienna (Austria). Due to personal circumstances, she later changed and completed a degree as a financial and investment economist and then as a business economist. In the course of her career in the investment fund sector, Margret started painting to compensate for her very analytical activity.

What began with a few small canvases, a few paints and brushes fascinated Margret so much that she decided to take private lessons from an artist whose work she had seen in an exhibition in Frankfurt. Later, she took courses at art academies in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg with various instructors in order to learn different techniques and find her own style. She was guided by her own feelings, but it was clear from the beginning that abstract painting was her focus. In addition to abstract painting, Margret also learned various printing techniques such as etching and monotype.

The more Margret explored her own painting, the more fascinated she became, and the more she wanted to learn. Painting became her passion, and the logical step was to shift the focus of her work to painting.

Margret is Frankfurt (Germany) based. Her works are shown in single and group shows and art fairs in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg.

PASSION - EMOTION - INTUITION

These three words describe my impulse creating abstract art.

Nature is my most dominant source of inspiration. But also details of old industrial buildings, steel bridges of abandoned architecture especially if it is combined with traces of erosion or rust can be so inspiring for shapes, combinstions of colours and a first impession for the composition.

Also the spontanous decision for a special song when starting a new artwork inspires and effects my mostly expressive and dynamic creative process.

My approach is more intuitive than concept-driven. I love to react on the particular status quo after each step and to sometimes develope a completely new direction in finishing the artwork.

I often work in series while each painting inspires the others, which causes a permanent dynamic and sometimes surprising progress during the creative process.

Mostly I start a new painting with a ground coat - not always in white, sometimes colored - to establish a first structured layer. This priming means a kind of ruminant intro into the painting. All layers can be developed with brushes, scraps or in pouring colours onto the canvas. I love to combine the use of different tools and techniques in one painting - everything is possible and allowed to achieve deepness and vitality in the artwork. All steps shall lead to a painting with many little inspiring and fascinating details.

My preferred material is acrylic, but I also use oil colours, oilpastels, charcoal, grafit, pigments - not only to generate special effects but also to apply voltage into the composition.

Particularly in my colour-reduced, nearly monochrome works I often use ashes, marble dust or other material to create excitement.

I prefer large formats but I also love to create small pieces on paper, usually in series.

My greatest joy is, if the collector falls in love again every day with the artwork in always discovering new details and fascinating parts in the artwork.

If my artworks permanently donate happiness in the same way I feel during creating the artwork, my mission is completed and I am blessed.

Margret Trimborn

Margret Trimborn

60489 Frankfurt, Hesse

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