Margo Maeckelberghe Explained

Margo Maeckelberghe nee Margaret Oates Try (11 August 1932 – 10 January 2014) was a Cornish Bard and artist.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Biography

Maeckelberghe was born in Penzance, where she grew up and lived for most of her life. She studied at the Penzance School of Art, and the Bath Academy of Art from 1949 to 1952. She returned to Cornwall after spending two years teaching in London and Gibraltar. Maeckelberghe was best known for her dramatic contemporary landscapes and seascapes in oil.^[4] For many years her studio was at "Carn Cottage" at the top of the moors between Penzance and Zennor. "For me, the coasts, seas, moors, skies and rocks of Cornwall offer inexhaustible painting material," she told an interviewer in 2008. In 1963 she organized the first show of Belgian artists in West Cornwall, at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Penzance.^[5] In the 1990s she was elected Chair of the Penwith Society of Artists and was elected a Cornish Bard in 1997. In 2008, "Extended Landscape," a major exhibition of her works, opened at Tate St. Ives.^[6]

Personal life

Margo Oates Try married a Belgian-born doctor, Willy Maeckelberghe. They had two children, a son Paul and daughter Nico. Widowed in 2007, she died in 2014, aged 81 years.^[7]

Notes and References

1. News: Tooby . Mike . Margo Maeckelberghe obituary: Painter who connected her local roots with artistic modernism to capture the drama of the Cornish landscape . 2 February 2014 . The Guardian . 31 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151001144145/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/31/margo-maeckelberghe . 1 October 2015 . dead .
2. News: Ruhrmund . Frank . TRIBUTE: Cornish art world says farewell to a painter who reflected her home . Western Morning News . 16 January 2014 . 2 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151001122723/http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/TRIBUTE-Cornish-art-world-says-farewell-painter/story-20454079-detail/story.html . 1 October 2015 . dead .
3. Williams. Michael. Margo Maeckelberghe. Cornish Magazine. November 1963. 6. 7.
4. Peta-Jane Field, "Margo Maeckelberghe and Rose Hilton: Two Penwith painters" ArtCornwall.org (2008).
5. Melissa Hardie, 100 Years of Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery (Hypatia Publications 1995): 1962.
6. Angie McDonald, "Notes for Teachers: Margo Maeckelberghe, 'Extended Landscape'" (Tate St. Ives 2008).
7. Web site: Belgrave Gallery St. Ives: Margo Maeckelberghe. 2 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140310124519/http://www.belgravestives.co.uk/pages/biography/1138.html. 10 March 2014.