Born in Perth W.A.

STUDIES

  • Studied Art (Illustration) at the Royal Melbourne Technical College (RMIT) under the tutelage of Murray Griffin, William Frater and Harold Freedman 1957 – 1960.
  • Studied Italian at the University for Foreigners in Florence 1964.
  • Studied oil painting at the Victorian Artists Society and Malvern Artists Society under Shirley Bourne OAM 1972 – 1973.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Solo exhibition, oils, Abacus Gallery, Ashburton 1976.
  • Water colour exhibition with fibre artist, Dorothy Payne, Highway Gallery, Mt Waverley 1983.
  • Water colour portraits were hung in the Portia Geach Memorial Award Exhibition, Sydney 1993, 1994, 1997.
  • Exhibits in solo and group exhibitions.

ACTIVITIES

  • Is a Signatory member of the Victorian Artists Society. Member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc.
  • Was an Assistant to the State Artist Harold Freedman, the History of Transport Mural and the History of Geelong Mosaic 1977 – 1978.
    Artist in Residence, Melbourne Grammar School 1992.
    Taught water colour and life drawing. Conducted painting tours to mainland Italy and Sicily 1993 – 2009.
  • Painted in Sicily and Northern Italy September and November 2013.
  • Painted in Thailand October 2014.
  • An assistant to Artist, Fern Smith – “The Sea is Sinking”, a Community Immersive Installation using recycled, non toxic and decompostable materials 2019.
  • Is a watercolour painter and paints and draws en plein air and in the studio from the subject.

REPRESENTED

In private and public collections in Australia and overseas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • “More than Just Gumtrees”, Juliet Peers 1994. Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors; Dawn Revival Press.
  • “The Australian Encyclopedia of Art”, Alan McCulloch, Revised 1994. Alan and Unwin.
  • “90 Years of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society” 2008 TMPS.
  • “Mavericks and Masters” Centenary of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society 1918 – 2018 TMPS.

AWARDS

  • Artist of the Year, Victorian Artists Society 1990, 1992.
  • “Special Award” AME Bale Trust 1988.

 

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Paintings for sale by Margaret Cowling.

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        Title: “Winter Lake”.
        Medium: Watercolour.
        Size: 17 x 28cm.
        Price: $600

        Title: “Opal Lake”.
        Medium: Watercolour.
        Size: 13 x 37cm.
        Price: $600.

        Title: “Rosebuds”.
        Medium: Watercolour.
        Size: 26 x 26cm.
        Price: $750.

 

 

     

      Title: “Embankment”.
      Medium: Watercolour.
      Size: 17 x 28cm.
      Price: $600.

 

 


      Title: “Winter, Flagstaff Gardens,
      xxxxxxMelbourne”.
      Medium: Watercolour.
      Size: 27 x 18cm.
      Price: $750.

 

 

 

 

General Comments: 
Plein air painting is exciting and the Victorian winter has always delighted me. With little glare on the paper and a need to work in haste I enjoy the speed required to capture maybe the glimmer of winter light with elongated shadows and dark undefined shapes, before my subject is lost in the change of light.

 

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