Margaret Thoma :: About the Artist

Margaret Thoma in her studio

about the artist

Margaret Thoma is a West Coast artist who paints with a European influence. Born in Vancouver, Margaret graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in the 1950s, where she took a four-year Fine Arts Program with teachers Jack Shadbolt, Lionel Thomas and Gordon Smith. She subsequently studied at the Central School of Art in London, England. Married to an Austrian, she lived in Vienna, Frankfurt and the United States.

Margaret is an admirer of the Post-Impressionist painters of Europe and England, and also the Fauvists and the Abstract Expressionist painters. She has developed a personal style using oils on canvas, and is particularly interested in the process of composition.

Margaret's background includes working as a floral arranger for Thomas Hobbs. Her paintings have been used movie and television sets by Artscene Ltd, and by an interior decorator in Whistler and Victoria, BC. In recent years, with her children grown, she has been able to devote herself full time to her work. In 2006, she studied art with Gerry Fresia in Lake Como, Italy.

Site design by Kits Media