Catching the eye, delighting the soul.
Source: mouritz.co.uk via Margaret on Pinterest Margaret Goldie(1905-1997), was a first generation teacher of the Alexander Technique(AT). She’s pictured here with F.M. Alexander, the persistent studier of himself, and of the ways we move by habit, and how these can cause us difficulties and pain. I started AT lessons a couple months ago when [...]
Source: louhallceramics.blogspot.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: google.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: culturame.it via Margaret on Pinterest Margaret O’Rorke describes sitting in her garden and showing a friend a vessel she had made, holding it up to the light, and being struck by the beauty of the translucence, and wanting to pursue [...]
Source: poetryfoundation.org via Margaret on Pinterest For Martin Luther King Day, it is apt to pay tribute to Margaret Walker(1915-1998), African-American poet. I first read her powerful poem, For My People, when I was an undergraduate. The poem first appeared in Poetry Magazine in 1937, and became her signature piece, the poem by which [...]
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (1864-1933), was a Scottish artist who worked in gesso, textiles, and metals. She and her sister Frances MacDonald enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art at the turn of the 20th century, and some of the first women allowed to attend classes. Later, the sisters left school to start their own studio [...]
My quest to find Margarets for my Pinterest Board led me to an artist who had a proliferation of names, variously Margaret, Margit, Margarete, or Grete, and Heymann then Loebenstein(her first husband who was killed in a car accident in 1928), then Marks(her second husband). It took me awhile to realize this was all the [...]
Margaret Armstrong(1867-1944), designed over 270 book covers during her career. I am drawn to her swirling designs, detailed flowers, and love of gold and silver imprinting, and deep rich binding colors. She and a group of female friends traveled around the western states from 1911-1914, and took a trip to the bottom of the [...]
One of the pleasures of Pinterest is finding themes for different “boards” and one I created on impulse was “Margarets.” I haven’t know many Margarets, especially ones who might actually go by the full name and not a nickname. Fortuitously, there are some very cool women named Margaret, and the first in my series [...]
Sunset Spiral Mandala by Margaret Almon
Sunset Spiral Mandala by Margaret Almon
Sunset Spiral Mandala by Margaret Almon
Helix Nebula Mandala by Margaret Almon
Blue Sky Spiral in the Light
Custom House Number 46 in Blue and Yellow by Nutmeg Designs
Hope Rainbow Mosaic by Nutmeg Designs
Blue Skies Spiral Mandala for Suzi
Chinese Coins Quilt Pattern in Mosaic
Log Cabin Quilt Mosaic in Orange and Pink
Hope Spiral in Mosaic by Nutmeg Designs
Hope Spiral in Mosaic by Nutmeg Designs
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