Margo Sawyer Interview! 4 comments
by LittleMissMatched
When did you know you wanted to become an artist?
I always would draw and my favorite game was building fantasy structures that my dolls and cat would live in. I would play for hours with bricks and stack them to create imaginary buildings, strangely, not so different to what I do now as a practicing artist. Art was the thing I was the best at. It has always made me feel centered and comforted in difficult times.
Did you go to school for art? Did you teach yourself?
I was very fortunate, at around eleven years old a neighbor in Lewes, England, suggested I go to Saturday morning art classes…which where in Brighton College of Art, some 20 miles from where I lived…The classes where held in a former school, and housed the graduate painting department of the collage and this Saturday morning art class. So from an early age I was around the smell of oil paint, large cold and mysterious spaces, and the energy that is part of art school. At high school I was fortunate to have six-art faculty on three campuses of Priory school, in Lewes. In England the teaching of the arts is a vital part of the fabric of education, and I was lucky to go to museums and galleries at an early age.
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