Margaret Warren is a native of Galveston, Texas, and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Her art study includes work at S.M.U. and at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Milford Zornes was an early teacher. Later work concentrating on color and design has been with Wolf Kahn and Alberto Mijangos.

Margaret is a regular prize winning exhibitor in local and regional shows, taking the San Antonio Art League Museum Purchase Prize for 2001. Her work has been featured in one and two person shows in Dallas and San Antonio galleries and in the San Antonio Art League Contemporary Art Month Invitational for 2003.

Milton Avery, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn are favorite artists. Following in the tradition of these and others, Margaret uses simple shapes, expressive color and flattened space to talk about the enduring power of chosen subjects. Some of her series have included cypress tree patterns along the Guadalupe, cows in Hill Country pastures, big ships in Galveston Harbor, and impressions following September 11. She has used pieces of monoprints and collographs in a series of collages. Boats and ships are the motifs use to explore the nature of different kinds of journeys.

Her work has been included in Artist’s Magazine as well as in Color and Light for the Watercolor Painter.