Marga Hayes-Ingram

"Surrealism…old botanical prints…Thomas Hart Benton and Botticelli…Italy, Spain and East Tennessee…God, growth, and miracles...the influences come and go, but one does follow something – like the tracks of an animal leading off into the woods. "I am always on the trail of whatever I see that brings me to a place of awe. Our world, known and unknown, so filled with beauty and mystery, and a feeling of at-one-ness, too. Like the saying 'one moment in nature makes the whole world kin.' How can we see this more often?? That we are all kin…with every one and everything." Marga was a winner of the prestigious Niche Award for Mixed Media, winner of the First Place Award for Mixed Media at the Coconut Grove Art Festival and selected participant of the International Sculptural Objects and Functional Art (SOFA) Show on Chicago's Navy Pier. Her work has been featured on the Home & Garden Network (HGTV), "Country Style" television show.