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Artist Bio: Margaret Picken |
Cpartographic Draftsman 1968 - 1975 Commercial Artist to Real Estate 1983 - 2006 Studied Calligraphy under Janine Mitchell 2005 - 6. First prize 'Craft Calligraphy & Lettering Arts : Novice'. Royal Melbourne Show 2005. Studied - Oil painting (2013 - 14) Victorian Artists Society Studied - Drawing (Linda Weil 2015 - 16), drawing and watercolour (Julian Bruere 2016 l- 2018) at the Victorian Artists Society. Studying oil painting Hawthorn Artists Society (2019 - present) under Jenny Scholes Memberships - Victorian Artists Society 2014 - present Hawthorn Artists Society 2019 - present MSWPS (Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors) 2020 - present Malvern Artists Society 2024 - present AGRA - 2023 - present Awards - 2021 MSWPS 111 Yearly Exhibition 'Smoke and Dust', 'Highly Commended' 2024 Malvern Artists Society Autumn Exhibition - 'Swedish Solitude' , 'Highly Commended' 2024 Malvern Artists Society Spring Exhibition Winner Best Seascape Landscape 'Wategos Beach' 2024 Malvern Artists Society Winter Exhibition Members Choice Award 'The Road to the Pearl Farm - Broome' 2025 Malvern Artists Society Autumn Exhibition Winner Best in Shoe 'First Snow' Exhibited - VAS - 2017, '18, '19, 20, '21, '22, '23, '24,'25 inc Various exhibitions MSWPS Yearly exhibition 'Changing Perspectives' - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Camberwell Rotary Art Show - 2016, '17, '21, '22, '23, '24 HAS Friday morning Basement Group exhibition - 2019, '21, '23 Boxhill Art Show - 2018 Bayside Art Show - 2019 Sorrento Rotary Art Show - 2021, '22,'23, '24, '25 Hawthorn Artists Society Annual Salon Exhibition - '23, '24 |