Margaret La Farge is a native New Englander. She was born in 1950, and moved to the coast of Maine in 1980 with her family. After twelve years of free-lance illustrating and painting, she went on to teach for several years before returning to a career in studio art.
Her watercolors depict interior places, landscapes, and still lifes. Her recent landscapes capture rural Maine along the Washington County coast; recent still life paintings explore a family tradition of tea; and interior images focus on an island summer home. All her work shares a focus on personal stories that draw from her spiritual and emotional relationship to family, history, place and time. Her artistic style is defined by intimate and detailed observation. Carefully rendered images celebrate the natural world and observe the ways in which humans have created and defined spaces within it. Through the play of light, shadow, and subtle reflections, Ms. La Farge’s watercolors seek to capture the beauty and spirit of ordinary objects and places.