Artist Bio

Margaret is an architect who has had a lifelong love of painting in watercolor.  She grew up in Northern Virginia and earned an architecture degree from the University of Virginia.  She went on to get her masters degree at the University of Washington in Seattle, and spent a wonderful three years in the Pacific Northwest before returning to the Washington, DC area and pursuing a career in architecture.

 

Margaret's love of historic architecture led her to settle in Alexandria, Virginia.  She became a licensed architect and focused on residential architecture before turning full time to painting.  Her neighborhood of Del Ray is the subject of many paintings and she most recently completing a series for the 2026 Del Ray Home and Garden tour.

 

Her influences include her mother, who taught her to paint at an early age; her 7th grade art teacher David Gillenwater; Edward Hopper; and local artists Steve Fleming and Gwen Bragg.  She believes painting should be joyful and tries to avoid pretentiousness, although she did write this bio in the third person.

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