Hi. My name is Margot Wiburd and I'm a visual artist (oil paintings, pastels on paper, giclee prints), a frequent film crew member (working with a highly original film director and mentor, Paul Cox), and an author (non fiction and soon, hopefully, a children's book).
I want to welcome to anyone with a strongly beating creative heart who is now reading this blog. I aim to make this a place for you to stop by and get motivated, share woes and hopes and breakthroughs and questions, and get great info to help keep your creative career going from strength to strength. I know from experience that working in the creative arts is not always the easiest thing to do - even though I believe this is truly the most satisfying and life-changing career a person can have, if you are so inclined.
I switched to fine art at mid life when I was not even in a career crisis. I was doing brilliantly in a top advertising job with Saatchi and Saatchi in Madrid, Spain (a country I adore!) but for a long, long time I had nursed a secret urge to study jewellery design, spread my creative wings and especially, be my own boss. This urge finally grew so strong that I felt compelled to return to Melbourne, Australia, where I naively attempted to get into the best jewellery design program available...more about that later. (I was so green!)
Now I not only have a fine art degree in Gold and Silversmithing under my belt, but 9 months of intensive classical oil painting training from France, masterclasses in oil painting from the U.S., creative art residencies in Canada and Malaysia, and I have worked on some amazing feature films and documentaries all around the world.
I hope to share some of my experiences with you in the weeks to come.
Meanwhile, be well, fellow creatives and stay positive in all that you do.
Margot
p.s. Isn't this a great art quote?
"Art is like a green space in a city filling with concrete."
- Jeanette Winterson
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