Margaret Scott, Oakura Tropical Garden

Description

Margaret Scott
Oakura Tropical Garden
Acrylic on
700 x 700mm
$1800

Margaret Scott was born in Opunake, Taranaki in 1947 and has lived all her life on the Taranaki coast in New Zealand. She is the 7th child from a family of seven children. For 35 years Margaret lived on a dairy farm with her husband Ian, and bought up their four children, painted, and helped with the running of the farm.

Margaret describes her work as personal symbolism, as it is based on personally acquired and assimilated experiences of her life and the environment where she lives. This environment, between the mountain, Mt Taranaki, and the Taranaki coastline is reflected through the symbols she paints within her work.

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Shellfish, such as Paua and the ocean, feature strongly in her work as it symbolises the memories of her childhood growing up on the coast at Oaonui, and the coastal environment itself.