Margaret Warren is a native of Galveston, Texas and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Her artistic studies include work at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Milford Zornes was an early teacher. Ms. Warren has done more recent work concentrating on color and design with Wolf Kahn and Alberto Mijangos.
Ms. Warren has earned Signature Status in the Texas Watercolor Society, Southwestern Watercolor Society and the Nevada Watercolor Society. She is a regular prize winning exhibitor in local and regional shows, including the San Antonio Art League Museum Purchase Prize for 2001 and the Guadalupe Watercolor Group's James Avery Purchase Prize in 2002. Ms. Warren's work has been featured in one and two person shows in Dallas and San Antonio galleries each year for the past several years and in the San Antonio Art League Contemporary Art Month Invitational for 2003.
Milton Avery, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn are among her favorite artists. Following in the tradition of these and others, Ms. Warren uses simple shapes, expressive color and flattened space to represent the enduring power of her chosen subjects. Recent series have included big ships at Galveston Harbor, cypress tree patterns along the Guadalupe, cows in Hill Country pastures, and impressions following September 11th.
Gallery Soco has represented Ms. Warren since 2001. Her work has been included in recent issues of Watermedia Focus and Artist's Magazine as well as in Color and Light for the Watercolor Painter by Christopher Schink. Ms. Warren was featured on the cover of the December/January 2005 issue of Palette Magazine.
