Having several wonderful gay friends who are drag queens, she has been exposed to private dressing rooms before their show. Pastels are sparingly used to define line work, suggest movement and create texture. She builds layers of paint with broad brushwork. With an idea for a costume or form in mind, Margaux starts her paintings with a rough sketch using pastels. The subjects in her paintings are all lively and joyous beings, celebrating their pride. Working almost entirely in acrylic, she creates large-scale figurative paintings on canvas. Margaux finds her inspiration in the eccentric characters, sights, and scenes discovered on a daily basis in the streets of New Orleans. She currently resides in the Garden District of New Orleans, working out of her home studio.Īs a New Orleans local painter, and an original New Orleans artist, her works have been featured in galleries across the city and via websites and organizations like. She then went on to achieve her MFA in painting and drawing from LSU in the Spring of 2012. She received her BA from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2009. Favoring pencils and crayons at first, her go-to subjects for drawings were always people. Margaux Hymel is a New Orleans local artist and New Orleans native, born with a love for art.
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