About

Margaret Orrell is an artist working in the disciplines of painting and drawing. Her paintings, both figurative and abstract, respond to literature, faces, plants, pattern and the grid.

‘It’s simple, I want to join in with the things I’m struck by. I’m quite capricious. After the first marks on paper, paint gets me to where I want to be.’

Personal

Born:

1945

Educated:

Parkfield Cedars Grammar School

St Philomena’s Convent High School

London Institute. Digby Stuart R.C. Training College

Loughborough College of Art and Design

Staffordshire University

First solo show at Repton School in Derbyshire.

Began an association of fifteen years with the Art Schools there.

Married:

James Francis Orrell (March 1944 – January 2025)

Children:

James and Patrick

Currently:

Lives and works in Staffordshire.

Acknowledgements and Thanks

Ian Whitfield

Ally Benson

Jeremy Bournon

Nathan Goult

Gabriel Toso

Keith Thomson

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