Margaret ‘Meg’ R Head is an accomplished artist who has exhibited in England and the United States for over twenty years. Her work in graphite, watercolour and oil is unified by her drive to capture the nuanced play of light across nature as she melds the ephemeral quality of light (captured through traditional oil painting techniques) with the immediacy of impasto contemporary work. Following last year's successful exhibit at St Mary the Virgin, Dalham, this will be her second exhibit in Suffolk.
The study of JMW Turner’s method by Martin Kinnear drew her to learn oil painting at the Norfolk Painting School. Drawing on her experience of studying past masters and contemporary artists during the NPS Diploma, she melds the ephemeral quality of light (captured through traditional oil painting techniques) with the immediacy of impasto contemporary work. For Meg, plein air painting inspires a marriage of place and emotion within the painting. One of the hallmarks that guides her vision is the belief that art and its expression is cumulative; that a vignette of a place opens a window for the imagination to dwell and travel — whether in the act of painting or in the act of observation.
