Margaret McGinn Jamieson graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1955 in Toronto Ontario. Renowned artists Carl Schaefer, Eric Freifeld, Frederick Hagan, Fred Varley, and A. J. Casson, instructed her. Landscape and still life are her favourite subjects.

Margaret paints in both watercolour and oil. She loves the wilderness scenes of northern Ontario, Muskoka and the South West United States. In addition, she has painted scenes in France, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy. 

All seasons are depicted in her paintings. Margaret feels that a painting is like looking out a window at a scene you love to see when you can’t actually be there. 

Margaret has been represented by Scott’s of Muskoka in Bracebridge since 1978 and has been a regular participant in their summer group shows.  

Margaret has exhibited at public galleries including the Tom Thomson Gallery ( Owen Sound), Gibson House (Toronto), Kathleen Gormley Gallery (Unionville), Burlington Cultural Centre, Nielson Creative Centre (Mississauga), Art Gallery of Lindsay, Algonquin Park Visitor Centre and The O’Keefe Centre (Toronto). 

Margaret has exhibited her work and won awards at art shows around Ontario including The Scarborough Art Guild for best in show, Arts Scarborough for best oil and the Dora Purdon award for best oil with the ECOAA. 

Margaret has had several one-woman shows at the Hunter Gallery in Markham and at her home gallery in Toronto and Muskoka.

Margaret has taught art for groups by arrangement and for the Scarborough Board of Education.