Margaret Eden, born in the Argentine province of Santa Fe, had artistic ambitions at an early age. She studied at the Art Academy in Buenos Aires, where she obtained her diploma in painting and sculpture. She is currently living in Belgium and is a full-time artist/mother. She soon created her own style that strives for an ideal synthesis of naturalistic representation, personal expression and abstract order. Margaret particularly admires painters such as Nicolas De Stael, Adrian Ghenie and Morandi.
Her paintings are characterized by a strong simplification of forms, drifting at the boundary of figuration and abstraction. The paintings thus created are spatial impressions of colour contrast, a light palette with bright range of colours. The overlapping of undefined figures and transparency evoke movement and memory, searching for harmony and peace. The Argentine Pampas being a source of inspiration for her compositions. She uses her photographs of people, urban layouts, landscapes as a first approach for her paintings. Seascapes are also her favourite themes, the subtle cool and warm shades brought with thick strokes of paint, a palette knife for flat segments, structure and solidity.
Her sculpture is inspired by tradition, Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Danh Vō, and Eduardo Chillida are amongst her favorate sculptors. She has a more classical figurative approach, using everyday scenes such as working people, conversations, these figures try to express the inner truths of the human beings, the human condition and its vulnerability. She uses mostly traditional materials such as bronze, cement, plaster, ceramics. The figures reveal themselves at the moment of process in clay, she’s using the expressive character of different kinds of surfaces, tactical, smooth, rough, irregular, and likes to keep the marks visible of the sculptural process on her finished works. Margaret also likes to explore the balance between two extremes, the organic and the geometric, abstract shapes.