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Maggie McGregor's work is a response to the world around her. Through the physical process of painting; the mixing, brushing, scraping and repainting, she uses materials as a way of thinking, exploring tensions between chaos and containment, fragility and structure, light and darkness and the human impulse to impose order on the natural world.

Recent work centres on the idea of the garden, both as a constructed image of order and beauty and as a longstanding metaphor for hope. These works include an acknowledgment of humanity’s destructive arrogance and our ongoing failure to find a respectful place within the natural world.

Though primarily a painter, drawing and printmaking are an important part of Maggie’s work and she has been a multiple finalist in the Parkin and Walker & Hall Waiheke art awards. Her work is held in private collections in New Zealand and overseas.