Maggie O’Neill
BIOGRAPHY
Maggie O’Neill began O’Neill Studios LLC with a Renaissance ideology of creating a business based upon commissioned artistic needs. This would allow her clients to commission artisans in all fields in order to facilitate and realize their individual creative visions. This would also allow her to simultaneously work on her own artwork while reaching a more extensive network of collectors and clients.
After earning her BA in Political Science from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA Maggie continued her education at Trinity College, Washington DC with a focus in Photography and Digital Imaging. After realizing her need to indulge her creativity, she pursued a Masters Degree of Fine Art at the University of Georgia, specifically the Cortona, Italy program. Maggie was moved by the rich art history of the Renaissance and the integration of commissioned fine art during this period.
During her studies in Italy she focused on drawing and painting (specializing in portraiture) and the decorative arts. Part of her studies included Fresco painting and the restoration methods and the chemistry of manufacturing and mixing her own pigments and plasters.
Maggie continued to travel, eventually living and working in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, where she completed her first commercial exterior mural. It was at this point she fell in love with the creation of utilitarian and public artwork that the surrounding community could enjoy. Returning to DC, she decided to continue working in the vein of utilitarian artwork and opened O’Neill Studios in 2001.
O'NEILL STUDIOS:
O’Neill Studios is a boutique decorative painting company operating from our 2500 square foot studio on Antique Row in historic Kensington, MD. Our team is comprised of professional artists from a variety of creative backgrounds who work together to provide our customers with a one-of-a-kind experience. We specialize in one-of-a-kind decorative finishes custom designed to your specifications.
O'Neill Studios works with and supports a wide range of talented
artists and craftsmen. Our professional network of creative minds and
unique resources is precisely what sets up apart from your average
decorative painting company. In addition to our extensive menu of professional decorative finishes, we are able to provide an larger menu of artistic goods and services.
* Custom Artwork:
* Commercial artwork for restaurants, office spaces.
* Staging for real estate or re-sale purposes
* Theatrical or Decorative Backdrops for Events
* Custom Accesories :
* Hand Painted Furniture/ Cabinetry
* Custom Built Utilitarian Artwork ( tables, sculpture, wall hangings)
* Headboards/ Footboards
* Light Fixtures
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Maggie and O’Neill Studios have completed many high-end commercial and residential decorative painting projects
*Over 180 private residential projects
*Commerical projects include:
- Hotel La Colina in Costa Rica, 72ft x 42ft mural 2001
- Tommy Joe’s Bethesda MD 2001
- Dakota Cowgirl 2006
- C-Vent office spaces 2006
- Boone and Sons DC, McLean VA locations 2007
- Panache Restaurant Washington DC 2007
- Panache Tysons Corner,VA 2008
- Wink Boutique, 2004
- F.U.S.A Showroom, 2005
- VRMCA Show home 2004
- NSO showhouse in 2005 and 2007.
- National Jean Co, Reston VA 2008
- SEI Restaurant, Washington DC 2008/09
The O’Neill Studios team was selected by Creative Edge Studios to design and execute a 60ft x 35ft Video Game and Movie Set in 2006.. O’Neill Studios has worked closely with many local builders including Natelli Homes, BOWA Builders and Sandy Spring Builders to execute high end durable finishes for many of there luxury homes. Maggie was invited to feature her faux woodgraining work in the HGTV Special showcase “The House That Faux Built.” Maggie was also “Featured Contractor” on the Contractor.com radio show and in the Washington Examiner in June 2005.
Fine Artwork
 Her fine art can be found in many private collections. Maggie participated in the “Washington’s Unseen Eros” exhibit with actor Paul Sorvino. She was featured in the 2004 Artomatic and The Funky Furniture exhibit: Washington DC, as it WAS, IS, and COULD BE. She was selected by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities as a featured artist for the public art project “Pandamania.” Maggie spends any free time she has her on her fine artwork.
Artist Statement
I am a “ reactionary” painter and I rely on the colors and textures use to push me in one direction or the other. I usually have a basic plan and sketch that is my roadmap for the painting. However, that can change with one brush stroke. I am drawn to a literal composition with an expressive and colorful approach. I believe that color affects us in ways we're not even conscious of most of the time. People react to and experience color much like music. It is a language of felt experience, memory and emotion. I paint quickly with layers of colors and quick gestures. I react to what is left on the canvas pushing or instigating the next action in the painting process. I can tell that one of my paintings is finished when I stand back and squint my eyes. If all the colors work with or even against each other to keep my eyes searching for the next "great moment", then I know I’m done.
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