Maggie Clifford-Bandstra

Maggie Clifford-Bandstra (she/her) was born in Michigan in 1970. Clifford-Bandstra currently lives and works in West Michigan. Her paintings are nature abstracted. The human connection to nature inspires her paintings and pottery. She extrapolates the simple forms and colors in plant life and the landscape. Her work uses an exaggerated scale, movement, and patterns. She encourages us to notice the beauty in the world around us. Her work is in many public and private collections. Bandstra also works in clay, creating functional and non-functional pieces. Her ceramic works and paintings encourage us to notice the beauty in the world around us. The unifying undercurrent in Maggie’s work plays with ideas and concepts surrounding nature, healing, serendipity, stories of love, and the human connection.

She earned her M.F.A. in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2021. Clifford-Bandstra holds a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Michigan State University(2002) and a B.S. in Education from the Loyola University of Chicago (1993).