Margareta, the artist

Ribes nigrum & rubrum After my studies at the Art School "Konstfack" in Stockholm I have worked as an illustrator of books and designer of graphic art, e.g. postcards, stationary and diplomas, also designing exhibitions with different themes in libraries.

My production also includes a great number of aquarelles (water-colour paintings) especially from the south of Sweden and from travels in Tuscany and Spain.

I also work as a calligrapher. Sometimes I add some calligraphy in the aquarelles, a short poem or quotation to give the motive an extra poetic touch. "The Travel to Skåne (Scania) 1749", a book by Carl von Linné, the great Botanist of Sweden in the 18th century, is my favourite for the moment. He describes many things that are still part of the daily life for people in south Sweden.

KonstrOndan, Sollentuna in April
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Kalligrafi med Signe
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 Tour de France La Vuelta Hamerkop jizz Hakuna matata
Tour de France La Vuelta Hamerkop jizz Hakuna matata
Fatty Lärksång Pain / Pane Kaffe avec
Fatty How do you paint
the lark's singing?		 Pain / Pane / Bröd Garlic

Margareta Dahlin
Sollentuna - painter, calligrapher

Born in Umeå (Vännäs) in north Sweden, now living in Sollentuna, near Stockholm.

Schools
Nyckelviksskolan at Lidingö 1962 - 1963 (The Art School of Carl Malmsten)
Swedish University College of Arts, Crafts and Design "Konstfack" (Master of Drawing, and decorative painting).
Pupil at Calligraphy Classes for Kerstin Anckers ( Professor of Calligraphy, designer of many diplomas for the Nobel Price in Litterature)

Scholarships
Scholarship of Art in Sollentuna 1980
Scholarship of the Swedish Writers´s Foundation 1980

Solo exhibition
Gallerie Pictorama, Södertälje 2003
Sollentuna 2004 - 2006

Group exhibitions
Participation in many exhibitions - Falkenberg, Stockholm, Sollentuna, Södertälje, Vännäs, 1977 - 2008

Representations
at the community of Sollentuna and in many private collections

Membership of following societies
Society of Nordic Aquarelle Painters (Nordiska Akvarellsällskapet)
Society of Illustrators of Sweden (Illustratörcentrum)
Society of Designers of Sweden (Svenska Tecknare)
Society of Calligraphers of Sweden (Kalligrafiska Kretsen)

Latest event
KonstrOndan, Art Show "Open house" Sollentuna in April 2008
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Margareta Dahlin
Skoldalsvägen 15 c
SE-192 51 Sollentuna, Sweden

The artist, Edsvik, Sollentuna 6 sept 2003
The artist at Edsvik, Sollentuna,
6 sept 2003

All pictures, © Margareta Dahlin