Margo Maeckelberghe nee Margaret Oates Try (11 August 1932 – 10 January 2014) was a CornishBard and artist.[1][2][3]
Biographyedit
Cornish Garden No.1 (Margo Maeckelberghe's Garden) by Peter Liddle, 1988
Maeckelberghe was born in Penzance, where she grew up and lived for most of her life. She studied at the Penzance School of Art, and the Bath Academy of Art from 1949 to 1952.[1] She returned to Cornwall after spending two years teaching in London and Gibraltar. Maeckelberghe was best known for her dramatic contemporary landscapes and seascapes in oil.[4] For many years her studio was at "Carn Cottage" at the top of the moors between Penzance and Zennor. "For me, the coasts, seas, moors, skies and rocks of Cornwall offer inexhaustible painting material," she told an interviewer in 2008.[2] In 1963 she organized the first show of Belgian artists in West Cornwall, at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Penzance.[5] In the 1990s she was elected Chair of the Penwith Society of Artists and was elected a Cornish Bard in 1997.[1] In 2008, "Extended Landscape," a major exhibition of her works, opened at Tate St. Ives.[6]
Personal lifeedit
Margo Oates Try married a Belgian-born doctor, Willy Maeckelberghe. They had two children, a son Paul and daughter Nico. Widowed in 2007, she died in 2014, aged 81 years.[7]
^ abcTooby, Mike (31 January 2014). . The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^ abRuhrmund, Frank (16 January 2014). . Western Morning News. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^Williams, Michael (November 1963). "Margo Maeckelberghe". Cornish Magazine. 6 (7).
^Peta-Jane Field, "Margo Maeckelberghe and Rose Hilton: Two Penwith painters" ArtCornwall.org (2008).
^Melissa Hardie, 100 Years of Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery (Hypatia Publications 1995): 1962. ISBN9781872229225
^Angie McDonald, "Notes for Teachers: Margo Maeckelberghe, 'Extended Landscape'" (Tate St. Ives 2008).
^. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
January 01, 1970
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