Margaret Mellis - Art for Sale

Margaret Mellis was one of the original modernist artists who fuelled the formation of an artistic colony at St Ives in Cornwall during the 1940s. She was a mentor to the artist Damien Hirst and he still champions her work today, believing she hasn't attained the recognition she deserves.

Margaret Mellis was born in China in 1914 but shortly after her family moved back to Scotland. Alongside artists such as William Gear and Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham, Mellis studied at Edinburgh College of Art at the age of fifteen, under W. G. Gillies and Samuel John Peploe.