Maggie Cochran

Maggie is a contemporary landscape artist, inspired mainly by the coast and the light.

She describes herself as essentially a landscape painter who likes to work in a slightly abstracted fashion while still retaining a sense of place. Her evocative paintings
capture a sense of being in the landscape. Light and a sense of the fragility and transience of the natural landscape is important to her.

Painting for Maggie is all about capturing the moment
and recording the feeling of sitting on a beach on a stormy day, watching the waves crash, listening to the sounds around her, catching the light reflecting off the wet sands and the distant headlands. Her paintings are about the experience of being in that landscape.

The art critic Bomberg once said : “Don’t paint what you see in front of you but paint what you feel around you”

Maggie has a Fine Art degree from the University of Chichester and won the Cornwall Life Landscape Painter of the Year in 2016.

Maggie has exhibited widely and her work is held in private collections around the world.

In August 2019 Maggie undertook an artist residency in Shetland.

Maggie was shortlisted for the Artist of the Year 2018 at the Mall Galleries in London and has also exhibit...

2019/20 1 year mentoring Porthmeor Programme at St Ives School of Art

2017 BA (Hons) 2:1 in Fine Art, University of Chichester


2011 Art and Design Diploma (Merit), Fareham College

2020 Exhibitions

02-04 : Gosport Open Art Exhibition
03-04 : The Arrival of Spring! at Purple Gallery, Bournville,
06-07: Festival of Chichester at The Little Art Gallery, West Wittering
08 : Hampshire Open Studios
10 : Peninsular Artists at the Yellow Edge Gallery

2019 Exhibitions
02-03 : Artists of the Year 2018 exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
03 : Oxmarket, Chichester
03-04: Spring Exhibition at Purple Gallery, Bournville
04: Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London
04: 'Turning the Tide', an artist's response to plastics in the ocean with Peninsular Artists at Explosion museum,
07: 'On the Beach' - a mother and daughter show as part of the Festival of Chichester at The Little Art Gallery, West Wittering
07-08 : Summer Show, The Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge
08 : Hampshire Open Studios at Yellow Edge Gallery
09 : Peninsular Artists at Yellow Edge Gallery
12 : Christmas Show, The Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge,