Margaret Stokes1915 - 1996

Margaret Stokes was first influenced by her cousin, the artist Mainie Jellett, who gave her art lessons from an early age. She was a pupil at The Royal Hibernian Academy School and she won the Purser Griffin Scholarship which she used to attend the Glasgow School of Art and later went to the Edinburgh College of Art where she studied under Joan Hassell, the well known wood engraver and illustrator, and W. G. Gillies, the distinguished Scottish painter. She returned to Dublin and taught at Alexa Read more