Margaret immigrated to Australia from the US in 1983 with her husband and small daughter. She has experienced a broad sweep of Australian lifestyles: the Melbourne suburbs, a sheep station in Central West NSW, by the beach on the Sunshine Coast, restoring a convict-built house in Tasmania’s Midlands, and is now happily settled in the Huon Valley.

“I began painting seriously quite late, around age 50, part of my new-found joy in life after a 15 year battle with a debilitating illness.”

After training in Florence, Margaret prefers using a Great Masters Classical Realism method. Specialising in oil portraits and genre paintings, Margaret sees her art as an act of defiance against the devaluation of individual worth, using portraiture to elevate human dignity and beauty. In the tradition of the Impressionist painters Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, she finds poignancy and meaning in the peacefulness of domestic moments.