'Margaret Lloyd’s truly beautiful paintings are the result of many years studying and training. She taught painting and drawing as a teacher while studying ceramics. A turning point and coincidental interest in Chinese calligraphy happened in Singapore while living there and seeking out Chinese brushes to make marks on her pots. Margaret learned to love the flowing movement against the challenge of making marks that typify Chinese art and calligraphy by loading the brush with varying amounts of water, colour and ink. It became the start of her journey to understand ‘Yin and Yang’ the balancing of opposing forces.

One painting hanging in a Singapore hospital, where Margaret’s husband worked so fascinated the Chinese people as they had slowly lost the skills by moving away to Western medium and technique. Returning to London Margaret abandoned ceramics an...