Maggy was a very late comer to painting, although she loved art even as a tiny one, she was banned from painting at the age of 6, for being messy – and says she still is! After a very different career, in the RAF and consulting internationally, that ban stayed in place for nearly 50 years.
It was not until fracturing many of her vertebrae in a riding accident, with the encouragement and support of a tutor in spinal rehab, that she dared to pick up a brush again.
Moving from London to the Cotswolds, as an absolute novice, she was lucky enough to be adopted as an ‘old girl on the block’, by the John Blockley Group. Over the next seven years her passion grew and with their generous encouragement, she was lucky enough to have her first work selected for by Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 2007. Since then , her work has been regularly selected, hung and sometimes sold at the Mall, almost year on year, by the Royal Institute and The Society of Women Artists.
She also exhibits in the Cotswolds and the East Midlands. This year, her work was selected and sold in the Tarpey Open and she has also just been selected as a finalist in the Broadway Arts Competition.
Maggy is an alumna of a US master’s programme on abstract expressionism and her story has been featured in two books. Despite her increasingly wonky legs – she still loves to learn and explore!