Margo Maeckelberghe

Margo Maeckelberghe, who was a painter of Cornwall's landforms and coastlines. In capturing the drama of the Penwith peninsula as it faces the Atlantic, her work responded to artistic challenges faced by the generation of artists who grew up in the wake of the pioneering modernist figures associated with postwar St Ives and Newlyn. Maeckelberghe found her voice by emphasising her rootedness in the landscape of west Penwith, its weather, its colour, its forms and spaces.