Recent Work

All of these works with the exception of the ceramics and small painting titled Good Grief were made during Covid-19.

As situation after situation unfolds, making art ricochets between being a comforting outlet and a trough for unsettling feelings. I suppose the goal is to be present and work with what arises. The art and yoga practices are overlapping more and more.

My Covid time started with Jala’s Thailand retreat in February. Those remote crystal days were my calm before. The masked journey home through several airports quickly brought me into step with the pandemic and our interconnected global existence.  — Margie Butler, May 2020

Margie began as a plein air watercolor painter while working in New York. She left in 2002 and spent time working as an arts administrator in New Bedford while completing her MFA at The Art Institute of Boston. Margie and keeps a studio in her Providence home. In addition to art, she consults in the fields of brand strategy, research and community engagement.