Margaret Scott was born in Opunake, Taranaki in 1947 and has lived all her life on the
Taranaki coast.
Margaret describes her work as personal symbolism, as it is based on personally acquired and assimilated experiences of
her life and the environment where she lives. This environment, between the mountain, Mt Egmont/Taranaki, and the
Taranaki coastline she reflects in symbols of the area.
Shellfish such as paua and the sea feature strongly in her work as it symbolises the memories of her childhood of growing
up on the coast at Oaonui, and the coastal environment.
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