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Margaret Clarkson, Artist
Margaret was born in Rotherham. She lived and trained in Rotherham then at Bromley College of Art in Kent, and was an art teacher for many years in South Yorkshire.
She has had several exhibitions throughout the North with her pictures featuring in regional and national magazines. Commissions have included book illustrations, designs for greeting cards and prints for the York Theatre Royal restoration fund.
Working mainly in watercolour Margaret is an accomplished and well respected artist who is always developing new ideas. Much of her current work has evolved from the enjoyment of observing people and their surroundings. Remembering the pace and detail of growing up in the 1940’s - 50’s Margaret has produced a number of limited edition prints depicting family life from the post-war period. Margaret’s prints are limited to single editions of five hundred copies and several of her prints have recently sold out.
Margaret Clarkson’s nostalgic art has been described a powerful and important historical record of life in Northern working class households in the 40’s and 50’s.
Her paintings make people smile as they remember Friday bath-night and queuing for the outside loo.
A former art teacher, Margaret has gone from selling a few prints locally to 4000 prints, a year, nationally. Her publishing company, Mayflower House launches new work three times a year. In 2006 & 2007 Margaret was a finalist in ‘The Best Selling Artist of the Year Award’, an annual award arranged by The Fine Art Trade Guild in London.
Margaret who is delighted with her success said that most people who bought her prints could associate them with their own memories of the period. ...'It was a lovely time when we had nothing but we had the world - when time stood still and people were important.'
Margaret and her husband Mac now live in Nottinghamshire where they run their publishing company, Mayflower House.
They have recently published a series of 16 greetings cards distributed by Selective Prints in Whitchurch.
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Many thanks to Selective Prints for their kind help in preparing this feature.
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