Margaret Powell
Classically trained and known for her moody, elegant colour palette, Margaret has been painting seasonal flower still life paintings and landscapes since childhood. Her art appears to exude a feel of a bygone area and invites the viewer to pause for a moment.
In her paintings, Margaret likes to explore a connection between ourselves and the world around us. She prefers to employ traditional techniques, honed in over the years, in her paintings, to depict seasonal flowers, from her own garden, in still life settings.
Margaret’s artwork shows the beauty around us, in small, everyday things in our homes and outdoor spaces. She usually sneaks family memorabilia into her compositions to further connect with her subject/objects.
Margaret began fine art tuition in traditional Italianate oil techniques at the age of 12 and has continued her education ever since.
Over her 30+ years of practice, her style has moved from representational to impressionist, with a strong interest in colour. She remains inspired by early 20th-century European Post Impressionists and Colourists who were the first to consider colour equally as important in a painting as light and composition.
Margaret is inspired by light, how it changes local colour and how colour makes us feel. Her favourite mediums are oil and, more recently, also acrylic.
Margaret has also received recognition for her landscape paintings of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Wales. She is a winner of the 2024 Women Who Create Award; additionally, she offers commissions, whether is painting a client’s special places, people and pets.
Margaret’s interior scene paintings were selected as finalists at the prestigious Broadway Arts Festival competitions in 2024 and 2025.