Vale Margaret Anderson

Keith Anderson has gifted paintings by his late wife Margaret, who passed away with Parkinson’s this year.

Margaret took painting lessons when she was in her early 20’s. She always preferred oil painting.

Margaret had a love of horses and owned several during her teenage years and early adulthood. She enjoyed making sketches of them and then progressed to doing oil paintings.

During her married years, while the children were at school, she joined a local art group and was able to rekindle her interest in painting.

Many of her paintings were of sea and landscape scenes copied from photos that Keith had taken on holidays or sometimes from pictures in magazines that caught her attention.

Margaret was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2012.

"The progress was thankfully slow and she fortunately did not have one of the symptoms, the shaking palsy," Keith said.

"Later she started to have difficulties with her right hand used for painting and developed some vision problems. Despite these difficulties, she was always enthusiastic and enjoyed her painting."

"It was only in her late 70s that she found it more difficult to paint so mainly encouraged others at the weekly gatherings of an art group at the Church where she continued to enjoy the fellowship."

During the early days of the Manningham Parkinson’s Peer Support Group, Margaret was also able to guide those who developed an interest in painting after diagnosis.

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