About me
When I’m on a train you can call me Lord Margarita
Hola! I’m Margarita Vásquez Cárdenas, a Colombian artist based in Dublin, Ireland. My practice explores stillness, beauty, and quiet moments drawn from everyday life. Through painting and drawing, I seek to express the subtle interplay of light, shapes, and feeling—offering viewers a space for reflection and connection.
With a background in Fine Arts from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Ohio University (USA) through a Fulbright Scholarship, I’ve exhibited nationally and internationally, across disciplines including drawing, painting, photography, and video.
Over the past two decades, I’ve also worked in arts and project management, leading collective and public engagement projects, always driven by my belief in art as a way to bring people closer to themselves and one another. Also I’m a huge fan of Blues music and dancing.
Steadily, I’ve been coming back to my artistic practice. This website is both a creative home and a space to share what I see in the world. Take a look around, perhaps something here will speak to you. And if it does, do get in touch.
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Artist Statement
Through my creative practice, which often begins from walks within cities, I primarily use digital photography to record images of light, shadow, and repetition, found in architecture and nature. By working this way I document the unpredictable and hold onto tiny moments that would otherwise disappear.
I create layered images that combine these collected moments, on the surface of a canvas. While my process is not about recreating what was seen precisely, it is about revealing the invisible threads between experiences. Through painting I translate these impressions and give them form. Each painting becomes a visual story guided by intuition and emotions, rather than logic. Observing, copying and translating imagery is a release for my busy mind. The repetition of shapes, across a flat surface, provides solace, calm and structure, while light and shadows invite play.
Through my paintings, I invite others into this space of stillness and observation. My practice is where I return to myself, where creativity becomes a space of refuge and reflection. I create to quiet the mind, to listen inwardly and to understand what surrounds me and how we are connected.