Margaret was born a five-minute walk from London’s Fulham Pottery into a loving family and was encouraged to enjoy the arts. She learnt to draw with Salvidor Dali prints on the wall, a piano in the lounge, “Love” on the record player and experiences of classic painting and sculpture in some of London’s most prestigious galleries and museums.

At 16, she made two jointed suspended puppets - a second taste of her future. In the first year of A’ level, she sculpted a clay head in the Roman style frustratingly disposed of in the school skip. At that time Margaret lacked confidence in her work and after the A’ level course she stopped drawing.

She experimented with career paths from pea picking to highway administration before completing a Sheffield computing degree when she won the Freshgate Trust Award. “I loved the study but loathed working in the IT arena. In retrospect I had some truly wonderful jobs but they simply weren’t right for me” she says.

At night, after her day in the city, she would often look through the Road Atlas of Great Britain and think of what might be. She had assumed it was the job that was at fault but three fantastic IT jobs later, drove to Machynlleth for the weekend. The next day she rented an isolated stone cottage and resigned on the Monday. Less than four months later she had found a six-week drawing course and discovered that she could draw but her head ruled that she stay with the sciences: she considered intelligent prosthetic limb design but reflected that such a career would lead back to a city life; in 2003 she was miserable as she qualified with PGCEII(Sciences).

In 2005, she completed the exceptional Foundation Art course at Coleg Menai in Bangor with full distinctions and tremendous certainty that clay was the way forward. She won an award with a suspended sculpture in 2005 and bought her electric kiln a year later. She then finished renovating her period cottage and started trading as a sculptor in April 2009. Ever since she was at school, people have asked Margaret what she does for a living usually adding that they had thought her to be an artist. Margaret found it a long and confusing journey of self-discovery but has finally found happiness.