Maggie Wilson is a contemporary realist painter who emigrated to Canada from England in the early 1970’s.

A graduate from The Royal College of Art in London she embarked on a career in fashion design which evolved into designing costumes for television and theatre in Montreal. 

When she arrived in Vancouver to work as a Prop Master for film twenty years later, her illustration and design abilities were often required and this need for creativity progressed  to painting as the richness of the landscape drew her in.

A trip to Cornwall in England began her love affair with the ocean, and she returned to Canada to capture the experience on canvas. 

In 2003 she relocated to Victoria, satisfying  her need to be close to the ocean that she loves, and which continues to influence her work today in realistic and abstract form.

Maggie was juried into active membership with The Federation of Canadian Artists in 2018, and two pieces were accepted recently by the Federation Gallery on Granville Island, one of which received an Honorable Mention and sold overseas .

Other works have been sold privately .

This exhibition is her first show to the public.

Maggie is self-taught and brings her experience in design to inform her work with sensitivity to line, space, colour and form.

Much of her work exhibits fine detail which in part is what her work in film demands. On canvas it is the slow build of layers and fine lines that create the realistic images she produces.