Margaret was born in Hong Kong. She studied classical ballet from the age of seven. At Wellesley College, she was fascinated by the field of Sociology, After graduation she entered the M.Phil program in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. But she fell in love with dance again, this time with contemporary dance. Returning to the U.S., she earned an M.F.A. in Dance at the University of Utah. Subsequently,  Margaret taught and was tenured in the School of Dance at Ohio University. She also did freelance choreography. While in Ohio, she served on the Dance panel of the Ohio Arts Council and was a consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts. After she stopped dancing, Margaret became interested in exploring art and enrolled in the Academy of Art in San Francisco, where she was trained the classical tradition. She took to it immediately, “like a duck to water”. To her delight, she discovered a whole new way of creative expression using different mediums – charcoal, oils, soft pastel, and multi media.  As a visual artist, she was initially most drawn to portraiture but her work covers all the other genres in painting: figures, landscape (interior and exterior scenes) and still life. For nearly twenty years she had her own studio in San Francisco. Since 2006 Margaret’s paintings have been juried into regional and national shows – winning several awards for excellence. Additionally, Margaret’s work appears in several publications including Artists Magazine, AARP print and online, and books on painting. During the pandemic, she and her husband decided to move from the City (after 30 years there) to Sausalito. She loves being here and is overjoyed to be in the community of artists in the ICB/ART building.