Peggy McGivern currently lives in Taos, New Mexico. McGivern comes from three generations of artists in her hometown of Denver, Colorado, where she maintains a studio. Peggy first began selling her work in a pub in Manchester, England and has now had one-woman shows across the United States. She is represented in galleries in California, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, and has been published in Southwest Art magazine, Western Art magazine, and American Art Collector. Peggy McGivern was a founding member of the Tulsa Artist’s Coalition and the Tulsa Center for Contemporary Art. The artist’s work is reminiscent of the 1940s in her color palette, often combining muted tones of burnt orange, rust, mossy greens and warm plum with bright pops of cool pink, red, yellow, or teal. In her plein air and studio paintings, Peggy McGivern depicts the people and places she encounters in her travels around the world. Her Dreamscapes series consists of a theme Peggy has had on her mind almost from the time she began painting. These paintings are the artist’s most personal paintings. They may be flying horses representing a child’s imagination or flowerpots and furniture being thrown out of a twisted house. In 1975 when Peggy lost almost everything in a bitter divorce, she left her Colorado home with her two children and began a travel adventure that would last into the early nineties. More recent abstract works have received honorable mention at the Colorado Plein Air Show. The artist has earned commissions from the Denver Children’s Hospital, the Anschutz Diabetes Center, the Shadow Mountain Institute and was chosen for the Denver International Airport Exhibition. In the book, Finding Your Visual Voice, Peggy McGivern is a featured demonstration artist.