Margaret Elizabeth Ryan (Peggy) was born in Connecticut and grew up in Essex, a small yachting community, which accounts for her love of water and boats. Marriage relocated her to Wethersfield, Connecticut where she became active in the local Art League. Four children and twenty years later, a move to Vermont stimulated her long desire to paint professionally.
Peggy has had the advantage of attending workshops with Carl Schmalz, Professor of Art at Amherst College; Carl Mondo and George Cherepov in Dover, Vermont; Claude Croney, Richard Treaster and Frank Webb at Mt. Snow, Vermont, Edgar Whitney in Maine and Chris Van Winkle in Arizona.
She has widely exhibited in New England, Florida and currently Arizona where she relocated to from South Florida in 2003. Peggy is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, the most recent including Best of Show and Third Place Watercolor in the Arizona Art Alliance Fall Show, and honorable mentions in the Scottsdale Artists School and Scottsdale Artists League shows. She also won First Place and Best in Show in two Florida shows. She has exhibited extensively in Connecticut, the Stratton Art Festival, Art on the Mountain, Southern Vermont Art Center, and exclusively at the Peel Gallery of Fine Arts in Danby, Vermont. Exhibits in Florida include the Gallery by the Sea in Vero Beach, Schramme Gallery in Fort Lauderdale and the A.E. Backus Gallery in Ft. Pierce. Exhibits in Arizona include the Scottsdale Artists School and Gammage Auditorium.
Favorite subjects have been the four glorious seasons of Vermont, seascapes and flowers. Peggy hopes that her affection and excitement for these subjects is transferred to her viewers through her paintings.
Margaret Elizabeth Ryan (Peggy) was born in Connecticut and grew up in Essex, a small yachting community, which accounts for her love of water and boats. Marriage relocated her to Wethersfield, Connecticut where she became active in the local Art League. Four children and twenty years later, a move to Vermont stimulated her long desire to paint professionally.
Peggy has had the advantage of attending workshops with Carl Schmalz, Professor of Art at Amherst College; Carl Mondo and George Cherepov in Dover, Vermont; Claude Croney, Richard Treaster and Frank Webb at Mt. Snow, Vermont, Edgar Whitney in Maine and Chris Van Winkle in Arizona.