Surrounded by evocative paintings of cliffs and wild seascapes, Margaret told us of her love of painting outdoors, of wild weather, and depicting the relationship between land, sea and lake, her pictures are a direct response to what she sees.

Using different surfaces, including brown paper, linen board and wood panels, she also experiments with different inks, gesso ,acrylic and oil paint and shellac inks, which interact with one another, creating textural effects. In the demo Margaret applied these with various brushes, handmade reed pens, and fingers making an exciting range of marks which is an important element in her work.

She also demonstrated painting the same image, but this time onto wet watercolour paper, again breaking all the rules with her mix of different media to create movement and drama. This time she included scraping into the wet ink, and watercolour, with the end of a paint brush and with tailors chalk!

A lot of inspirational new ideas for us to try.