Meet Margret Trimborn

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Margret Trimborn. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Margret, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

Oh, this really was not only a long journey, it took me also a long way round …
My family, especially my uncle, took me to museums when I was a teenager and introduced me to the masterpieces of painting. Over the years the engagement with art and architecture became more and more important to me and I decided to study history of art and archeology after finishing school.
After a serious cut in personal life I felt that I needed to work in a very structured surrounding and at the end I found myself in the financial industry and decided to study economics part-time. After finishing these studies and working in a very analytical and number affinity job I was looking for a kind of balance or compensation and started painting. If you are wondering about this contrary, this is always part of my life! At school my preferred subjects were history, arts and mathematics.
So when I startet with individual tuitions with some artists and later on studying at art academies in Germany and Austria to learn different techniques and find my own style, there was no intention to make it my profession, just to have a creative counterpart to my analytic business life.
During the years I felt more and more confident and happy not only with painting but also with my development that I decided to change the focus from economics to my creative work.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

My passion is abstract painting!
For me it is so fulfilling to paint, to create. And so, at some point, it was clear to switch my focus from the analytical to the creative and one of the most fulfilling parts of my life.
This step was not as easy as it seems because especially in my combination of professions I had to handle the fact that the results in art are not „measurable“, my results in the analytic financial job are. So it was a process of learning to only follow my intuition e.g. in deciding whether the artwork is finished or not and the quality of my art in general.
The most challenging learning process was to let go, to give up the permanent control and instead let creativity flow.
My approach in creating art is more intuitive than concept-driven. I love to react after each step of building the painting and to often develop a completely different direction in a painting. I often work in series, letting each artwork inspire the others, which causes a permanent, dynamic and sometimes surprising progress during the creative process.
By combining different tools and techniques in one painting I can achieve more depth and vitality in the painting. This leads to paintings with many small inspiring and fascinating details to discover.
Next to creating large formate abstract paintings I enjoy to work in small format on paper with charcoal or oilpastels but also using printing techniques like monotypes, which I really love.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Looking back shows that for me it was important to get a wide overview of different techniques on a variety of substrates either to find my preferred technique but also to discover my own style. None of these things I learned are useless, everything has an impact on my artistic journey and my current work.

Starting something new without having the ambition to create the perfect piece is the best way to not only get more practice e.g. in a not often used technique but also leads to exciting results that I never expected. The more fun in creating, the best results will be achieved. Let go is the key.

Going through the world with my eyes wide open is such an endless source of inspiration. Having a look at nature, architecture, colors, details always effect the desire to start a new artwork immediately. But caution, you‘l never stop creating 😉

Tell us what your ideal client would be like?

For me it is so fulfilling having collectors that fall in love at first sight with a painting – that’s like it should be!

My wish is, that the collectors enjoy every day looking at the painting and always start a new journey through the artwork to discover more details in the painting.

If my joy in creating the artwork skips to the collector in feeling permanent joy with this artwork in his /her private surrounding gives so much back to me. This means a lot to me and motivates to go forward on my way.

So the most important thing for me is an everlasting positive feeling my collector has with owning the painting.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.atelier-trimborn.eu/
• Instagram: margrettrimborn_art