Margaret Geddes

For the Australian writer, Margaret Geddes, see Margaret Geddes (disambiguation). Margaret Geddes (7 November 1914 – 1998) was a British oil painter of landscapes and figure subjects who later developed an abstract style.

Biography Geddes was born in Cheam in Surrey and attended school in Eastbourne. She studied at the Westminster School of Art in London, where she was taught by both Walter Bayes and Mark Gertler, from 1930 to 1936. Geddes began exhibiting in group shows while still a student and in 1938, was elected to the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.

During World War II, Geddes worked as a draughtswoman in the Fire Service Department of the Home Office. In 1996, Geddes, with Alzheimer's Disease retired to a nursing home. Retrospectives of her work were held at the Woodlands Art Gallery in London in 1998, and at Camden Fine Art in Bath, the following year.