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Borderlines by Margaret Alder

I began painting and drawing many years ago, but it wasn’t until I moved to Malta that I started some serious art classes. I have been privately taught by Harry Alden and Eman Grima and more recently, periodically attended Jason Lu’s academic and portrait classes.

Oil and pastels are my preferred medium and I will paint a picture of anything that attracts me. ‘Borderlines’ is my first exhibition and I have included a cross section of some of the pictures I have painted over the last few years. I prefer ‘interesting’ faces to the classically beautiful, because I believe they have more depth for the artist to capture, and therefore more for the viewer to think about and enjoy.

I have recently begun to experiment with abstracts, which lend themselves ideally to a large canvas. These are painted in acrylics, so a new medium as well as a different style. I find the vibrancy of acrylic colours particularly exciting, and I feel there is a lot here still to explore.