Margaret Devitt Art
Profile
After graduating from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, I started and ran a mohair weaving workshop in Lesotho for six years. In 1971 my family and I moved to London where I studied under Cecil Collins as well as attending life drawing at the Royal College of Art and The Prince's Trust. From 2008 I have been studying with Robin Child at his Art Research Centre in Devon, and more recently at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland.
I have accompanied my husband on his many trips to different parts of Africa, where I painted and drew the African landscape and people. This culminated in a series of desert landscapes which were exhibited in Guildford and London.
I have as both aspiration and inspiration the spontaneity found in the drawings of very young children. They are concentrated and direct, paradoxically and uncannily ‘accurate’ in what they convey and totally unselfconscious. But failing that ideal my work is underpinned by the tensions and dualities that exist between figuration and abstraction. I am searching for what I can only describe as ‘another reality’ below the surface of the everyday perceptions of a figure, still life or landscape. The painting may refer to a memory, or be a recollection of a piece of music or poetry. And sometimes it is simply playing with the endless possibilities of line, colour, form and medium on the two-dimensional surface.
Exhibiting at:
Kent Painters Group – www.kentpaintersgroup.co.uk
The Gallery, Little Bedwyn – www.thegallerylittlebedwyn.com
Art in June – www.artinjune.org
Nadia Waterfield Fine Art – www.nadiawaterfieldfineart.com
SEOS (South East Open Studios) – www.seos-art.org
SVAF at The Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery – www.svaf.co.uk

Curriculum Vitae
Margaret Devitt, B.A. Fine Arts (Rand)
2022
2021
2020–2021
2021
2019
2018–2019
2018
2018–2021
2016–2020
2018
2017
2014–2017
2017–2020
2016, 2018, 2019
2015, 2018
2015
2014–2016
2003, 2006, 2009–2019
2012
2011, 2019
2010
2001
2000
2000–2017
2000–2002
1998
1997
1994
1994, 2001
1993
1992
1991, 1992, 1994, 2000
1991
1989–1990
1987
1986
1984 –1986
1987–1993
1982–1986
1981–1983
1979
1969
Kent Painters Group; SVAF, Open Print exhibition; SEOS, Open Studios; Art in June, Open Studios; Nadia Waterfield, Spring exhibition; SVAF, ‘Finished‘—When is a painting finished?
SVAF, ‘More more than’ online exhibition; SVAF, Christmas Fair; SVAF, Open 2021; The Gallery, Little Bedwyn; Nadia Waterfield; Chelsea Art Society
Nadia Waterfield
South East Open Studios
Cello Factory, London, SVAF 10th anniversary exhibition
PrintFest7, Algarden, Sweden with SVAF
Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum Open, Kaleidoscope Gallery
Seal Chart Etchers
Art in June
Cricket Fine Art
Cranbrook Art Show
Forton Fine Art
Smallhythe Studio
Llewellyn Alexander, London
British Art Portfolio
Chelsea Art Society Annual Open
Lustre 15, Lustre 18 Old Big School Gallery
Affordable Art Fair, London
Florum
KPG (Kent Painters Group)
Moncrieff Bray Gallery, Petworth
Portico Gallery, Sevenoaks
Battle Contemporary Art Fair
Rosvik Gallery, Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire
Royal London Society for the Blind, Sevenoaks
Clock House Gallery, Tonbridge
A.T. Kearney, London. Explorations: Out of this World
South East Open Studios
Atrium Gallery, London with London College of Printing
Lewis Elton Gallery, Guildford
West Kent Open Studios
Katima Mulilo, Namibia
St Mary’s Centenary Exhibition, Johannesburg
Bank Street Gallery, Sevenoaks
Central Library, Tunbridge Wells
Hays Wharf Galleria, London
Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks
St Julians, Sevenoaks
Mall Galleries, London
Church Gallery, London
Guys Hospital
St Julians, Sevenoaks
Guild of Kent Artists, Tonbridge
Bank Street Gallery
Sloane Square Tiles, London
Hugh Goffe, Sevenoaks
Old Fire Engine House, Ely
Hope Mill Gallery, Goudhurst
British Council Lesotho