Margaret Geddes was a painter born 7th November 1914 in Cheam Surrey. Her parents were William Davidson Geddes and Adeline Blanche Victoria nee Wentworth. She was educated at Clovelly-Kepplestone in Eastbourne, Sussex.
Her art education began at Westminster School of Art in 1932 under Walter Bayes, R. Kirkland Jamieson, Bernard Meninsky and Mark Gertler. Her contemporaries included Frederick Gore, George Raffan and John Craxton. She studied at Westminster until 1937.
Although she started painting landscapes, her work shifted after working during World War II to include figures.
She exhibited for the Royal Academy in 1940 and 1945. She was a member of the National Society (NS) and the Artists International Association (AIA). Geddes was elected Vice-chairman of the Women’s International Art Club in 1948 and was elected chairman in 1951.
Geddes had her first solo show at the A1A Gallery in London in 1950, however had been exhibiting in group shows since 1938. Other solo shows include the Drian Galleries, Porchester Place, London in 1964; the Manor House Gallery, Ilkley, Yorkshire in 1966; the County Town Gallery, Lewes, Sussex in 1968; the Lane Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire in 1969; and the Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk in 1973.
Margaret Geddes died in 1998 following the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
