Margo Maeckelberghe

Margo Maeckelberghe nee Margaret Oates Try (11 August 1932 – 10 January 2014) was a Cornish Bard and artist.

Biography

Maeckelberghe was born in Penzance, where she grew up and lived for most of her life. She studied at the Penzance School of Art, and the Bath Academy of Art from 1949 to 1952. For many years her studio was at "Carn Cottage" at the top of the moors between Penzance and Zennor. "For me, the coasts, seas, moors, skies and rocks of Cornwall offer inexhaustible painting material," she told an interviewer in 2008. In the 1990s she was elected Chair of the Penwith Society of Artists and was elected a Cornish Bard in 1997.

Personal life Margo Oates Try married a Belgian-born doctor, Willy Maeckelberghe. They had two children, a son Paul and daughter Nico. Widowed in 2007, she died in 2014, aged 81 years.