The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
2017 Membership Exhibition
Gallery 21, Spanish Village, Balboa Park
October 25 through November 6, 2017
Congratulations to our
3rd Place Award of Excellence Winner: Margaret Larlham
Margaret was awarded Third Place in the Guild’s 2017 Membership Exhibition
for her soft pastel painting Retired Professor Peter.
About Margaret
Margaret Larlham is a plein air and studio artist with accomplished inter-disciplinary arts career holding Master’s Circle status in pastel medium:
A history of modern art course undertaken at Natal University in South Africa in 1968 had a profound influence on me. Enveloped in a darkened room by (then rare) slide projections of the paintings of European and American masters did much to bring a small town South African girl to awareness of the wide world out there and awakened my interest, drive and commitment to the arts.
Since completing my Master of Arts at Natal University, I have consistently sought opportunities to improve my artistic skills in many workshops, most recently at the Florence Academy of Art and with international plein air groups in Berlin and Croatia. I enjoyed a rich career in the arts, as a dancer, choreographer, director and designer at San Diego State University and Natal University in Durban, South Africa. At the same time I have exhibited for 20 years at Santa Ysabel Art Gallery and regionally with The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild and the Artist Alliance of the Oceanside Museum of Art.
Margaret has participated in many juried and group exhibitions. Below is a listing of some of the important exhibitions she was chosen for:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Santa Ysabel Art Gallery:
2016-17 Briar Whisper: Pastel Paintings of the Chaparral
2015 PRESENCE
2012 FLOW
Mission Trails Preserve, Visitors Centre Gallery:
2012 TRAILS - Exhibition of Landscapes in pastel and oil
AWARDS:
2016 Masters Circle / International Association of Pastel Societies
2016 Pastel Society of New Mexico, Dick Blick Purchase Award
2016 Degas Pastel Society
2016 Pastel Society of San Diego, Third Place
2015 Artist Magazine Finalist, 32nd Annual Competition
2015 Pastel Journal November Feature in Jamie Markle’s Critique Corner
2014 First Prize. SDMA Artists Guild Annual Plein Air Show
2014 Pastel Society of America, Enduring Brilliance, Holbein Award for Quest
2014 Pastel Society of San Diego Annual Juried Exhibition, Third Place
2013 First Prize, Pastel Society of San Diego Annual Juried Exhibition forCisco Kid
2013 Third Place, Torrey Pines Plein Air Competition for Estuary Mist
2013 San Diego Art Institute International, Tall Award for Imagine, Portrait of Emily
2012 First Place, Plein Air Exhibition, SDAI
2012 Pastel Society of New Mexico, Sponsorship Awards for (Portrait of Emily
2012 Most Outstanding Pastel in the October 2012 Online Boldbrush Competition for Ann-Charlotte’s Lake
2012 Outstanding Pastel, Wide Open Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Association
Publications:
2016 The Drive Home published in Strokes of Genius: Expressive Texture
2015 Phi Kappa Phi Forum Article
2012 Tangled Light (Pastel) publication in Strokes of Genius 4
2012 Rim Trail Hon Mention in Artist Magazine Online All Media Competition.
2011 Artistic Excellence, Hon. Mention for Santa Ysabel After Rain published in Southwest Art Magazine, Dec 2011.
About Retired Professor Peter:
This image, (14x10“) in soft pastel on paper, captures the light at the window and the darkness of the current news swirling through the figure of my husband - Retired Professor Peter.
For more information on Margaret, please visit https://margaretlarlham.com