Margaret Crutchley - 2022

‘A painter who distils the essence of a landscape’ - Margaret loves the countryside and also loves using oil or acrylic paint to produce an individual interpretation of a beautiful or dramatic location. By means of simplification, good composition, bold colour and expressive marks on paper or canvas, she concentrates the visual and emotional experience of the scene. Trees often feature in her work. Sometimes bordering on the abstract, her paintings still have a strong connection to the land.

Margaret also enjoys the challenge of painting human and animal portraits. Studies of movement, stance, gesture and features, help her capture, not only a likeness, but also the character of the sitter.

This year, for the second time, she has had work accepted for the annual exhibition of The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and has also exhibited twice at the annual exhibition of the Royal Watercolour Society. Her work has been exhibited in the Hertford Open exhibition and the Artsdepot Open, where she won a prize for a portrait.She has completed commissions and sold work in Group exhibitions in London. She is a member of the London Painters and Sculptors Group and Studio Fridays.