ARTIST BIO

Margaret Kathleen Lacey
ARTS EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Margaret is an impressionist realist artist, painting in oil, watercolor and pastel. Margaret commenced her painting career as a student of the late Alan Martin of Eltham. In recent years she studied under Collin Johnson. She is currently continuing to expand her artistic development, attending numerous workshops and university summer schools locally, interstate and overseas. Margaret particularly enjoys plein air painting and was inspired with a trip to Corfu in 2005 with Warren Curry. Recent workshops include Alvaro Castignet, the late Agata Lelek, Greg Allen and David Taylor.

Margaret is the invited art tutor for Tuscan Sun art experience painting tours in Tuscany Italy, in 2014 and 2015. Margaret currently teaches pastel and watercolor at her studio in Sandy Point.

Exhibitions
Solo
1992 Camberwell Honda Gallery
1998 Stockyard Gallery Foster
* Both solo exhibitions were considered sellouts, with over 75% of paintings sold.
2015 Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte
Group 1992 – 2015
Victorian Artists Society
Latrobe Regional Gallery
Australian Guild of Realist Artists, Camberwell
Town and Country Painters
Various Rotary Art Exhibitions (Bright, Camberwell, Leongatha and Box Hill.)
Fish Creek Art Group at Stockyard Gallery, Foster
New Energies 2000, Leongatha
Bass Coast Artist Society
Meeniyan Art Galleries
Leongatha Gallery, Stockyard Gallery, Inverloch and other local galleries
Art Space Gallery, Wonthaggi

Membership of Art Societies
The Pastel Society of Victoria
Australian Guild of Realist Artists
Peninsular Artists Society
Bass Coast Artists Society
Member of Town & Country Painters

My paintings are the expression of a passion for the landscape, the seascape and the environment. They are endeavoring to capture fleeting moments in time, of light, beauty and atmosphere. My delight is to express a feeling on canvas or paper, where you, the viewer, can lose yourself and escape into a place of harmony and peace.

Margaret has won many awards including recent commissions for surfboard sculpture paintings at Sandy Point. Recent awards include:
2012, 2013, 2014 People Choice Bass Coast Art Shows
2013, 2014 Best Pastel Sandy Point Art Shows
2014 Best Oil Sandy Point Art Show
2014 Highly Commended Best Pastel Bass Coast Art Show,2016 H/C Sandy Point & Inverloch Art Shows
2015 Highly Commended Best Watercolor Bass Coast Art Show
2015 Highly Commended Best Watercolor Sandy Point Art Show,
2016 Highly Commended Best Watercolor Sandy Point Art Show , Inverloch Art Show
Margaret’s work is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.