Maggie was born
in the Historic City of Nottingham, in 1958 and began painting and drawing
at a very early age. Many hours were spent in the Art Gallerys at Nottingham
Castle gazing at the mastery of the paintings hung there. Barely a teenager,
she was sketching classmates and notable film stars of the age. Her
development, as an entirely self taught artist came naturally and she
has drawn on her love of the outdoors and the rural landscape for many
of her works.
Whilst it is true
that you can be taught technique and method, without vision and emotion
the observer will be left wanting something, perhaps undefined.
Maggies paintings
embody a quality that draws the eye again and again, discovering more
at each visit.
Having moved to
the west country in 1977 her inspiration has come more and more from
the natural unspoiled beauty that abounds in the Devon landscape.
She has exhibited her works throughout the United Kingdom, including
at Harrods, London, the NEC, Birmingham, the Northcott, Exeter, The
Artists Garden Exhibition for the R.H.S. and regularly at the Winter
Gardens in Ilkley, Yorkshire, where she won the visitors choice for
the best painting.
She has won the Rosensteils award and awards from Windsor and Newton.She
has produced wildlife drawings for the born Free Foundation and her
paintings have been circulated throughout the National Geographic Society.
In 2003 she was entered into Who's Who of Art and Antiques.
Her paintings are much sought after and collected throughout the United
Kingdom.
Some of her work has been reproduced by a London Publisher on a number
of different mediums and sold the world over.