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Margaret as an
author and artist has had an interesting career. She trained
as a librarian on a government grant in Sydney and then worked
in the design section of a Tasmanian textile firm.
As a mature age
student she qualified with a Fine Arts diploma and became
a registered teacher. During this procedure she won an Arts
Purchase Exhibition prize in 1974 and went on be a finalist
in the Portia Geach contest in 1977. Her
art is represented in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Margaret wrote
and illustrated Jean Jellybean for her own children and was
invited by Maygog Publishing in 2004 to publish this great
little book for children with its bees and flowers and chameleon-like
jelly beans.
Published
by Maygog
Jean Jellybean
A tale of the prehistory of Tasmania
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