Marguerite Horner

Marguerite Horner is a British oil and watercolour painter who creates enigmatic landscapes and scenes often in grisaille. She explores notions of transience, intimacy, loss and hope using the external world as a trigger or metaphor for these experiences.

Horner constantly takes photos and videos, basing her work largely on direct experience and avoiding mediated material. Captured images start the creative process, before they are reformated and desaturated. Recent works are derived from images taken in Malibu, where she stayed in an oceanside house and, mesmerised, spent hours watching the sea and capturing the sunrise and sunset.

Horner states “Essentially my practice is concerned with the non-material, a reality that we can access through contemplation and painting. The value of a painting lies in its ability to induce a contemplative state in the viewer [which has the] ability to reconcile the heart and the mind into one.”

“Marguerite’s paintings lift the ordinary into the extraordinary, and the specific into the universal…they are about the seen and the unseen, the life behind the eye as well as the world in front of it” – Lady Marina Vaizey CBE, formerly Art Critic FT, Sunday Times and Turner Prize Judge.

Horner has an MA in Fine Art with Sir Peter Blake presenting her with the Kidd Rapinet prize for outstanding work. She has exhibited at the 54th and 58th Venice Biennales, in 2017 Horner won the NOA17 MS Amlin Prize and in 2018 the British Women Artist Award. Examples of her work are in the Yale Centre for British Art, USA and many private and museum collections worldwide.