Margaret Cahill is based at Rogue Studios, Manchester and lectures in Fine Art at Bolton University. She has exhibited in London, New York, Sweden and Eastern Europe as well as widely in the North West and her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Britain and abroad.

The paintings of vast atmospheric spaces are evocative of a sense of place. Balanced between truth and invention they offer the possibility for narrative and meaning yet remain elusive.
 
Photographing real structures, manipulating the images and then transforming them through the painting, an alternative place is created that evokes the real one, yet retains its identity as a place apart, an illusion of a landscape. The dynamics between the photograph - the captured image - and the fragility of the dissolving paint creates a heightening of sensation. The multi-layered nature of the painting alludes to the deep and complex layers of our lives - the past, memory, our relationship and our place in the perceived and actual world. Uneasiness and a sense of displacement permeate these unknown spaces and situations.

The paintings are concerned with the evocation of mood and sensation - spaces that are suggestive of places that we subliminally recognise, states that linger – the moment after the implied protagonists have moved on.

The work explores our increasingly fragile relationship with our environments and the way we view them in a constantly shifting and uncertain world. It questions the boundaries between form and space, the real and imagined and touches on notions of transience and mortality.