Margaret Armstrong Elliot was born and brought up in Eskdale. She lived in California, Scotland, Ontario, Alberta and Victoria before settling in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her professional life was spent in Medical Technology and High School Biology teaching.
From a very young age she was an artist, and was able to build on a period of early training in Fine Art, at King’s College, then part of Durham University, in the United Kingdom. She was a full signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, (SFCA), and the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, (CSPWC).
Margaret’s work is informed by a rural background and respect for nature. Her artistic preference was for watercolour and for drawing; her subject areas were the figure and landscape. Her style is described as having ‘evolved as loose, but sophisticated, and reliant on good drawing.’ Her favourite quotations are from J. M. W. Turner. –‘indistinctness is my forté’ and ‘where things are vague, (to) be absolutely accurate about the nature of their vagueness.’
The author originally wrote this book to record her memories for her children and two granddaughters. Margaret’s memories of Eskdale and her research into the area’s history will be appreciated by a wider audience inter- ested in the Lake District, farming and rural life.
Cover image, ‘Another Country’, by Margaret Armstrong Elliot, SFCA, CSPWC.
Margaret Armstrong Elliot was born and brought up in Eskdale. She lived in California, Scotland, Ontario, Alberta and Victoria before settling in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her professional life was spent in Medical Technology and High School Biology teaching.
From a very young age she was an artist, and was able to build on a period of early training in Fine Art, at King’s College, then part of Durham University, in the United Kingdom. She was a full signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, (SFCA), and the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, (CSPWC).
Margaret’s work is informed by a rural background and respect for nature. Her artistic preference was for watercolour and for drawing; her subject areas were the figure and landscape. Her style is described as having ‘evolved as loose, but sophisticated, and reliant on good drawing.’ Her favourite quotations are from J. M. W. Turner. –‘indistinctness is my forté’ and ‘where things are vague, (to) be absolutely accurate about the nature of their vagueness.’
The author originally wrote this book to record her memories for her children and two granddaughters. Margaret’s memories of Eskdale and her research into the area’s history will be appreciated by a wider audience inter- ested in the Lake District, farming and rural life.
Cover image, ‘Another Country’, by Margaret Armstrong Elliot, SFCA, CSPWC.
