BIOGRAPHY![]() A native of Berks County, PA, Margaret earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Penn State University, where she majored in printmaking with a specialty in etchings. She then moved to New Orleans with her husband, where she continued her education at Tulane University, earning a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking. While at Tulane, she taught adult classes in printmaking and watercolor. She also worked in the French Quarter as a freelance watercolor artist. Moving to Houston, Texas, she studied at the University of St. Thomas, achieving a Master of Education degree in Elementary Education and Art Education. She taught elementary school for 22 years in Houston,TX and Lititz, PA, and retired from teaching in 2010. She now works full-time as an artist. From April through November, you can find Margaret at many outdoor art shows around the mid-Atlantic region, including Frederick, MD, Manayunk, Mount Gretna, and Bethesda ROW Outdoor Art Shows. She also shows her work at Lititz Framing and Fine Arts. She has had shows and exhibits at Red Raven Art Gallery in Lancaster, and Accent Gallery in Ocean City, New Jersey. AWARDS:2021:
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GICLÉE PRINTSMargaret takes special pride in the quality of her limited edition giclée prints. Each print is made using the giclée process, as opposed to the offset lithography method. A giclée print (Discussion of Term) is an invented name for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using inkjet printing. Each of her original paintings is digitally scanned at full size. The digital image is software-adjusted so that colors, brightness, contrast, and tone exactly match the original painting. Each image is individually printed in her art studio on textured, heavyweight, matte finish fine art paper, using an Epson Stylus Pro printer. The printer uses UltraChrome K3 ink, which is a pigment-type ink rather than a dye-type ink. Pigment inks are renowned for their very large color gamut, excellent water fastness and superior longevity (permanence rating as high as 200 years). Each limited edition print is individually signed and numbered. |