Welcome to my website, I hope you enjoy having a look around
Many of the images are painted with soft pastel and include portrait commissions.
If you're interested, please feel free to make informal contact.
The price of a single subject sized 58x65cm is £385
Please note; all images are copyright
Biography
I became a member of the Pastel Society of France in July 2011
Exhibitions
October 2006
Participated in the exhibition 'Drawn', Stornoway
March 2006 onwards
Work exhibitied in various venues locally, including annual participation in 'Grinneas nan Eilean', An Lanntair arts centre, Stornoway
July 2008
Selected by the Societe de Pastellistes to exhibit at the European Pastel exhibition, Limoges, France.
(Main pastel festival of the year, attracting 20 000 visitors July-September)
July 2008
'Moments', Callanish centre Isle of Lewis
September 2008
Work exhibited in Pastellistes de France exhibition, Atrium gallery, Paris
December 2008
Participation in the exhibition of works of life drawing, 'Exposed', An Lanntair Arts Centre Stornoway
July 2009
Work exhibited in Eastgate Centre, Inverness
November 2009
Participation in Art Fair, Strathpeffer Pavilion, 26th to 29th November 2009
April 2010
Grinneas Nan Eilean, exhibition An Lanntair gallery, Stornoway
July 2010
Prizewinning portrait exhibited at `It's All About Art`, London
November 2010
Art Fair, Strathpeffer Pavilion
Summer 2011
Exhibitions Limoges (Feytiat) Paris and Tournus with the Pastel society of France
July 2011
Prizewinning painting 'Wait' exhibited at "It's all about Art", London (SAA)
November 2011
Art Fair, Strathpeffer
December 2011
Grinneas nan Eilean, Stornoway
February 2012
Exhibited 'Iris' at 'Love Pastels'', ICA Mall Galleries London (Pastel Society annual exhibition)
November 2012
Presentation of painting 'Winter in the Blackhouse', Royal College of General Practitioners Edinburgh
November 2012
Exhibited at Strathpeffer Pavilion Art Fair
ART WORKSHOPS
I've led workshops in portraiture since 2008
Artistic training
Annual workshops with master pastellist Ken Paine
Regular classes in Glasgow School of Art.
Modules completed with 'Open College of the Arts'
Life drawing classes (An Lanntair Arts Centre)
Prizes and Awards
July 2007
Named Amateur Artist of the Year by the SAA (Society for All Artists)
'Kathleen'
November 2007
Received the 'Prix d'Honneur' from the Societe de Pastellistes de France at their first European Pastel Conference
'Mary MacKenzie'
July 2009
Awarded the 'Framers Prize' at annual exhibition of the Art Society of Inverness
'The storyteller'
January 2010
First prize winner, Wet Canvas 'best of Wet Canvas' competition (portraiture)
'The Psalm Singer'
July 2010
Winner of Society for all Artists Artist of the Year
Portraiture Category
'Nan'
June 2011
Winner of Society for All Artists Artist of the Year
Portraiture Category
'Wait'
Finalist FASO Bold Brush art competition
December 2012
'Patience'
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Winner of Professional Artist of the Year 2013, SAA
'Firelight'
Winner of SAA artist of the year competition Figure and Portrait Category 2013
'The Gloaming'
Press articles
Press and Journal 26th December 2007
EUROPE BECKONS FOR GIFTED ARTIST
"A gifted Lewis portrait artist is looking forward to displaying some of her pastels at leading European exhibitions in 2008. She has won two prestigious awards in the process. After attending a three-day international pastels conference hosted by the Pastel Society of France, she collected her second major tribute in the space of a few months.In July, the former Glasgow School of Art student was named the Society for All Artists' amateur artist of the year. She has since been awarded a Prize of Honour during the French pastel society's first international conference, in Paris."
Stornoway Gazette
Story Behind the Picture - August 2 2007
"IT'S LIKE going into another world; you go into a creative flow and lose time, it's pure joy," explained local artist Margaret Ferguson, who recently clinched the title of Amateur Artist of the Year in The Society for all Artists (SAA) Artist of the Year competition 2007. The international contest this year attracted over 4,000 entries from across the world, yet it was Margaret's work – entitled Kathleen – which caught the judge's keen eye. Held in Oxfordshire, Art in Action saw the final 35 paintings displayed and enjoyed by over 10,000 visitors"
Profiled in West Highland Free Press May 2009
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