Margaret Nes

Margaret Nes was born in France in 1950 and spent much of her childhood in northern Africa. A daughter of a US Foreign Service officer, she was exposed to many different cultures, art forms and landscapes from an early age. In 1969 Nes moved to a small community north of Taos, New Mexico. She is a self-taught artist whose work reflects the aesthetics of the stark landscape and adobe architecture of this area that has been her home. Nes’s primary medium is pastel, which she uses in a unique and powerful manner. Her pastel pigments fully saturate the entire surface, and are worked and blended in with an almost sculptural quality. Her palette ranges from the richest and most luminous of hues to the most subtle and delicate of shades. Nes’s work has been exhibited in numerous juried and invitational shows and is in collections around the world. Her work invokes a sense of beauty, mystery and wonder that is very much her own.