Margot Landels

Margot grew up at Ashcroft Manor, four miles from Ashcroft, B. C. where she attended school. She enjoyed a career as a physical therapist, working both in Canada and internationally. As well, on receiving a BA from UBC, she taught French for a short while in Williams Lake. Some years later, she returned to property on the Lower Hat Creek Road near Ashcroft where she now lives. She spends her time painting people and animals and local landscapes using various media.

She has drawn and painted since childhood and in the last few years, as well as attending painting classes at Thompson Rivers University for three semesters, she has taken a number of courses such as impressionist portraiture, pastels and watercolours with such luminaries as Linda Kaiser Smith, Ruth Cunningham and Tom Lynch.  In 2009 she attended the Summer Academy of the Arts in Salzburg.  Her teacher there was Monika Baer from Berlin. More recently she attended an enjoyable workshop at Hollyhock with Robert Genn and Sara Genn.

Margot grew up at Ashcroft Manor, four miles from Ashcroft, B.C., the village where she attended school. She had a career as a physiotherapist,(Dip. PT, Uof A, Edmonton) and she enjoyed her work as a physio both in Canada, Austria and Switzerland. She even had a brief stint as a High School French teacher in Williams Lake, B. C. after obtaining her BA at UBC.  Eventually she returned  to property on the Lower Hat Creek Road, near Ashcroft, where, in various media, she  paints  landscapes, portraits of people and animals, and other things that attract her.  

She has drawn and painted since childhood and in the last few years, as well as attending painting classes at the University College of the Cariboo/Thompson Rivers University for three semesters, she has studied impressionist portraiture with the help of Linda Kaiser Smith, pastels with Ruth Cunningham and Ellen Ditterbrandt,  watercolours with Tom Lynch. In 2009 she attended the Summer Academy of Fine Arts at the magnificent  Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg, Austria, ( instituted in the 1960s by Oskar Kokoshka).  Her teacher there was Monika Baer from Berlin.  Most recently she attended an inspiring  plein air workshop with Robert and Sara Genn.