Maggie Williamson

. Margaret ('Maggie') Williamson was born in Manchester in 1946. She graduated from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, with BA Hons. in Fine Art and was awarded the Certificate of Education in Art, at Manchester College of Art and Design in 1969. She has been a painter and art teacher all her working life.

Her works form a link between particular places and times to which she returns regularly with a sense of belonging and trust. The continuity of her surroundings is a continual source of inspiration and discovery. Using oil paint and acrylic washes from a vibrant, well developed palette, she exploits reactions and textures. These are largely created by chance in order to develop the suggestions of a place. Sometimes she finds it appropriate to incorporate found objects or survey maps into the work to link thought and actuality.

The underlying structures and surfaces in cave formations have formed a subject for investigation for many years. Recent work has focused on both the local areas of the Peak District to which Williamson is constantly drawn, and places in Scotland , which are at the edges of the land, shorelines and mist covered moors. Her intention is to suggest the feelings of memory and reliability that these places inspire.

Maggie spent her career in teaching at schools in London and in Cheshire, before retiring from Head of the Art Department, at All Hallows School, Macclesfield. She had both educated and inspired students in the creative arts, as well as developing a personal response to landscape in her own work. Similarly, throughout this time she gained experience organising student art exhibitions and running workshops in a variety of venues. She has successfully undertaken and sold commissions to appreciative private clients throughout the North West.

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