Marguerite Horner

Marguerite Horner is a British artist who won the 2018 British Women Artist Award. Her paintings aim to investigate, amongst other things, notions of transience, intimacy, loss and hope. She uses the external world as a trigger or metaphor for these experiences and through a period of gestation and distillation, makes a series of intuitive decisions that lead the work towards completion.

Horner trained and worked as a scenic artist for the BBC after graduating with her BA Fine Art in 1976 until 1981. From 1985 to 2000 she worked as a freelance scenic artist and mural painter on advertising and editorial campaigns, films and BBC TV productions. Her clients included the Sunday Times Magazine and 'World of Interiors' In 2012 Horner took a Foundation degree in pastoral mission at Heythrop College, a Philosophy and Theology college of the University of London.

Marguerite Horner was born in Lincoln and from 1973 to 1976 studied art at Sheffield University. She graduated with an M.A. from the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2004 and was presented with the Kidd Rapinet Prize for outstanding degree work. Since graduating from City and Guilds of London Art school in 2004 Horner has exhibited internationally in Art fairs and group shows. In 2011 she exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale with Afternoon Tea for the WW Gallery and in 2012 received her first London solo exhibition, ‘The Seen and Unseen’, at The Pitzhanger Manor Gallery. The catalogue essay was written by Lady Marina Vaizey CBE. In 2017 Horner won the NOA17 MS Amlin Prize for 'Church', a painting that was inspired by a humanitarian visit to the Calais refugee 'jungle' in 2014, with a 'Cenacle' prayer group formed by the Chiswick Comboni nuns. In 2018 Horner won the British Women Artist Award and examples of her work were acquired by the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven Connecticut. Her work has also been acquired by a number of museums including the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Falmouth Art Gallery, the Madison Museum of Fine Art, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Schneider Museum of Art, Sheffield City Art Gallery, Swindon Art Gallery and the Nanxi Academy of Art Collection in China.