Maggie's career started out as both a ceramicist and painter in Brighton, her sole focus for many years now is to paint. She has recently moved to Sancreed in Cornwall, a place of great inspiration for her, where she will continue to paint, teach and create a beautiful edible garden.
Statement
The untamed, ever changing nature of land, sea and sky are the inspiration behind her desire to paint; to express through colour and texture those feelings of freedom and abandonment felt when out in the landscape. The intention of her work is to evoke in the viewer similar sensations of spaciousness and wonder.
Her work is a process of creating a moment where colour and form work in harmony, echoing similar unfettered experiences in the natural world. Maggie works mostly from the memory of places she has walked and sketched, for her this enables more freedom for abstraction of marks and choice of colour.
EXHIBITIONS
2012 Cornwall Arts Festival
2012 Brighton Arts Festival
2012 Battersea Affordable Art Fair Exhibition
2011 Maggie spent a year on retreat painting in Devon
2010 Battersea Affordable Art Fair Exhibition
2009 Limetree Gallery Bristol
2009 Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2008 Bailey's of Petworth Gallery
2008 Bristol Art Fair
2008 Brighton Festival Open House
2008 Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2007 The Lennox Gallery, Fulham
2007 Unit03 Gallery, Winner of the Award for 'Best 2D Artist in The Artists Open Houses'
2007 Cambridge Art Fair, Jointure Studios
2007 Queen Street Gallery, Emsworth
2006 Showroom 53, Pimlico
2006 Brighton Festival Open House
2005 Brighton Art Fair
2005 Brighton Festival Open House
2004 Grapevine Gallery, Norwich
2004 G. Gallery, Sussex
2004 C.C.A. Farnham
2004 Brighton Festival Open House
2003 G. Gallery, Sussex
2003 B.A.G. Brighton
2002 Lewes Contemporary Art Fair
2002 Brighton Festival Open House
2001 Professions Supplement to Medicine HQ London.
2000 Brighton Festival Open House
1999 Artist in Residence, Margaret River, W. Australia
PERMANENT ACQUISITIONS
2005 Haywards Heath Villa Ward, 'Enhancing the Healing Environment Project'
2005 Southlands & Worthing Hospital, Art in Hospital's Project,
2001 Professions Supplementary to Medicine HQ London.