Margo studied art in the late 1980s, specializing in painting and printmaking. She never abandoned her art, but the next 20 years were spent raising a family and helping her husband with his medical practice in Penticton. The Coopers relocated to Victoria in 2006, but return to the Okanagan every few weeks to visit their many friends and family there. With their two daughters now young adults, Margo is able to devote more of her time to painting in her beautiful garden studio in Broadmead.

Margo uses acrylics and mixed media to create intuitive, expressionistic works.

“I enjoy the process of painting – pushing paint around the canvas, layering, scraping, dripping and dribbling – I don’t plan anything ahead and never really have an idea what the painting will look like until it’s finished.

“I’ve always loved to draw and paint the human figure, and am a natural born storyteller. The story telling found its way into my painting fairly recently. As I moved farther away from representational figures, I realized that the subjects were still there, but it was more their energy and emotions that remained in my work.

“As I’m working on a painting, or even after it’s completed, there’s usually a phrase, a line from a song, perhaps only a word or two that occurs to me. Those words become the title of the piece, from which I invite viewers to create their own story.”