About Me - Margaret Bird, Birdscapesart

Many years ago, while training to be  teacher and studying geography I discovered a love of the landscape, how it evolved and how humans have impacted on it. As a teacher, I loved teaching art to seven year olds. When I left teaching I had two goals in mind. One was to learn how to paint like a grown up and the other was to research my family tree. I have successfully completed the second, the first is ongoing!

Researching my ancestry reignited my interest in local history and led to a course at Oxford University, The two interests combine into a deep connection for the landscape here in my native Lincolnshire, in the Derbyshire Peak District where I have spent many happy hours, Northumberland and Durham where I went to college, and indeed anywhere and everywhere I go.

My aim is to paint  the landscape, my feeling of the place, its layers of history, human and geological. And to paint like a seven year old, with no fear!

Exhibitions

I have exhibited at the Sam Scorer Gallery in Lincoln, The Gallery at Saint Martins, The Carre Gallery, Sleaford, The Stableyard at Doddington Hall, The Ropewalk at Barton on Humber and Victoria Hall in Oakham.. Three of my paintings were accepted at an open Exhibition at the Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln - “Art Out of Isolation”. Details of one of my paintings, “Allotment”, and the story behind it can be found in a book about the event, “What Inspires Art?” collated by Kevin Byron.

My Painting of entitled “Rubicon Wall” recently won an award at the Willoughby Gallery Open Exhibition. And I am pleased to announce that I have recently been accepted into the Lincolnshire Artists Society.

News of future exhibitions can be found on my blog post .News