Artist-led tour by Margaret Kelley through her exhibition ›Tapestries from the Cycle A Leap of Faith‹

Since her first stay in Worpswede, the artist Margaret Kelley, who was born in Los Angeles, USA, has been deeply inspired by the light of the Worpswede landscape.

She first came to Worpswede in 1991 through a scholarship at the artist houses founded by Martin Kausche. After a few more stays, she returned to settle there, continuing and developing her artistic work at this place that became so special to her. Over the years, her work has gained depth and scale—both literally and materially, as well as in terms of conceptual understanding. Many of her motifs originate from the experience of a landscape impression, such as the pearling of the waves on the Isar. The emotions and excitations triggered by these experiences are integrated into her monumental

Magaret Kelley, The river and the shore, 1997