Margarita is a Gaelic speaker and lives and works in the village where she was born, on the Isle ofHarris in the Outer Hebrides. where her family have lived for many generations,

Her painting expresses the wild beauty and drama of the unique, varied landscape, the changing light on sea, land, the crofting environment and its many wild flowers. « Each day is the start of a new adventure in using watercolour, her preferred medium. She also enjoys mixing media and the technique of Japanese woodblock printing.

She lives largely outside the mainstream art establishment, but her paintings go to all corners of theworld and her work has been shown at the Royal Scottish Academy.

She graduated at the Glasgow School of Art and then worked for many years as an art teacher in Central Scotland, including working with children with special needs before returning to teach on the Islands of Harris and Lewis. In 2009 she opened her own Studio, Holmasaig, Quidinish, and became a full time artist in remote South East Harris.

2017 Fearrain 's Fluraichean Innse Gall solo exhibition at Talla Na Mara , West Harris

and with other artists at Morven Gallery, Lewis

2016 RSW exhibition at Lillie Gallery, Milngavie

2016 Holmasaig Gallery and Morven Gallery Uist Arts Association group Exhibition at Taigh Chearsabhagh

2015 Holmasaig Gallery

2014 Awarded the Charles Rennie Macintosh Assoc/ France Residency in Collioure , Roussilon. 

2013 SSA Exhibition, The Royal Scottish

2013 Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh Exhibition of selected work by Society of Scottish Artists

2013 Holmasaig Gallery mixed media exhibition (three artists)

2012 Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh. Exhibition of selected work of Contemporary Scottish Artists and Architects

2012 Harris Mountain festival- “Beanntan Na Hearadh” at Holmasaig Gallery

2011 An lanntair Stornoway Japanese woodblock prints

2011 With Uist Arts Association in Taigh Chearsabhagh, Uist

2010 St Kilda Work at Seallam Northton

2010 Garyvard, South Lochs with other artists and then Rendezvous Gallery Aberdeen2010

2010 Painting Holmasig Gallery

2009 -2013 Full time painting at Holmasaig Studio Gallery.

2008 Opened Holmasaig Studio at Quidinish Isle of Harris.

2001-2009 full time, then part-time teacher of art on Isle of Lewis and Harris.

1995-2000 Art teacher in school for pupils with special needs,East Dunbarton

1986-1995 1Part-time itinerant teacher in Primary Schools in Strathclyde.

1978-1986 Brought up three sons to school age.

1973 -1978 Art and Design teacher in Secondary Schools in Strathclyde.

1973 PGDE Jordanhill College of Education .

1971 Graduated from Glasgow School of Art.