About

About

Artist Bio and Artist Statement

Artist Bio

Maggie Kimlick is a mixed media artist that experiments in both the digital and traditional fine arts. She will often work and combine different artist materials, blending them together into unique textures to create ethereal images that range from contemporary illustration to abstract pieces touching heavy subject matter. Her work draws form her own experiences of struggling with depression and mental health, as well as the exploration of nature and our different environments. Animals and biology also play a central part, as she’s had numerous pets throughout her life. Kimlick has done work on the former developing card game Splice and has had her art showcased at the Spacycloud Lounge in Washington, DC. While she born in Okinawa, Japan during her father’s service with the Marines, she has lived in Northern Virginia for most of her life. Currently she is BFA student at George Mason University’s School of art, living and working in Burke, Virginia.

Artist Statment

 Art is an expression, it is exploration, a force, a language, a compulsion; it is a thing that I must make. My works are a combination of different frontiers that I take myself to, experimenting is essential, and I always push myself to try new materials and formats. Each piece is as much about the process as it’s finished end, in a way each is a transition caught in time, a snapshot of an evolving artistry. The subject matters may range from reflections of my own experiences, contemporary pop culture, highlighting bones, portraits of Frida Kahlo or even the unlimited spiral decent of mental health; every creation is a new challenge to be adapted and expanded upon. My art and I are inherently intertwined, as one cannot exist without the other.

Why do I create? I create because I must.

What I do
I'm a flexible multipurpose artist and illustrator

I work in both traditional and digital art mediums. Often trying to experiment in combine the two together in mixed media works.

I have experience in creating surreal and abstract works.

I have worked with oil, acrylics and watercolor paints.

I aspire to create narrative artworks and comics, using the medium of art to play around with different forms of storytelling. 

I can work in creating concept work and full illustration pieces for a variety of genres.