And so it goes...

Maggie Beresford

I live on an old vineyard in the historic Goldfields in Victoria, Australia with unspoilt views of a forest of green and gold. The solitude and wonderful ambiance are never lost in ingratitude, when I think back my previous mode of existing in busy Melbourne.

Born in Greece in 1965 to cotton, wheat and tobacco farmers, I emigrated to Australia in 1970, and continued to study Greek. I grew up in Balwyn, and after graduating from Canterbury Girls Secondary College in 1980, I moved to Toorak. I pursued a career in dentistry, studying at the Lincoln Institute. At the same I studied Classical, Contemporary and Jazz Ballet at the Dance Factory in Richmond, Victoria.

Life took a different turn and I found myself in the business world as Managing Director of a distribution company during the 1980's, where I met my now husband, Paul, who was General Manager. We now have six beautiful children.

After years living in Templestowe in Melbourne, and all the hustle and bustle of that lifestyle, we made a major decision to adventurously move to rural Victoria. This "tree change" has given me inspiration to revive for my lifelong passion for photography.

What began as a way of promoting our historic, isolated little town and to assist my eldest son, Benjamin, an aspiring film producer, has blossomed into a new and exciting artistic challenge for me.

I began collaborating with Avant Garde artist Carlos L. Romero in the U.S., using the artistic tools and techniques of today in order to create a contemporary expression of art.

Artist Statement:

"You have an eye for the minuscule and the grande"...

"I was instantaneously taken to the beauty of nature"...

"I thank you for bringing blissful joy to me. Keep spreading happiness to the wide world"...

"Maggie has a talent for uncovering and capturing the rare events that occur in nature. On her solitary walks in the countryside, trips to nearby areas, and visits to the city, Maggie magically comes upon grand moments and brings them back to us. The sensitivity that is evident in her work is echoed in her life as well, and the beauty of her photographs is mirrored by her inner beauty. As insightful and tender as her work is, it is only exceeded by the artist herself. She is as her work reveals".

~ Michael Kendrick Brown-Avant Garde Literary Artist and collaborator

She is an Avant Garde Collaborative Artist and Australian Photographer. For Maggie, this is the essence of her primary love; to capture a moment that a person, caught up in the fast pace of the world would ordinarily have no time to notice.

To showcase the natural beauty around her to inspire us to pause and truly appreciate the grandeur of our world.

Maggie has an ambition to instill happiness into peoples lives using her images. She believes that cultural diversities lie at the core of the disunity of humanity and hopes to promote peace by uniting us through a common thread... our appreciation of art.

“Maggie Beresford - a photographer who has the most exquisite shots of flowers, nature and landscapes from her native Australia. A rare talent such as this comes once in a generation, and as it stands no one has yet approached the oeuvre she has in the use of color photography as an art form.”

May 27, 2009
Carlos L Romero,

"What began as an inspiration has continued. I first saw Maggie's photo of the waterlilies and it drew the words out of me. I merely wrote what the picture spoke to me. This is the essence of the collaboration between Maggie and myself. When I do my own writing, life and my own internal images guide me, but when I write to one of Maggie's photographs, it is of a different essence. I hear the image speaking to me, and I endeavor to write the words it speaks to me. My aim always is to bring out the hidden mystery embedded within the photo, and to give voice to that which otherwise might have remained silent.

I began writing free verse and still do enjoy it immensely, but my collaboration with Maggie is something special, something unique, and I hope that people will see these pieces as more than nice words on pretty pictures, but as integrated pieces of art. It is a great joy to be a part of the process, and an even greater joy to be able to connect with Maggie's art in this way".

February, 2010
Michael Kendrick Brown