Margarete Bagshaw

“My grandmother, my mother, and me, each one of us progressed into our own work, “I take a great deal of pride in being different from my family. Yet I know my mother would absolutely love my work. As a woman, I think she’d be very proud that I’ve chosen to do things in my own style.””

““I want my children to be happy. I want them to find their own purpose in life rather than fall into a life that’s already set up for them”

“I had this internal need to be a healer. My mom was ill a lot when I was a kid. When she got cancer, I became interested in the progression of the disease and how she was being treated,”

“I don’t like to feel like I have to stay within a certain style. I like to see things progress and turn into other things. I’m all about adventure.”

“I liked the way they looked. They were easy to work with my hands. The drawings turned into these magical things.”

“I’m in a position where I don’t have to be labeled… I don’t have to call myself an Indian artist to sell my work, and I decided that it was more to my advantage not to label myself as a particular kind of artist, based solely on my genealogy… now I know that I can be part of something, part of that lineage, without being defined by it.”