MARGARET FRANCIS

1948 Born in St. Helens, England

1967-1973 Pre-Diploma of Art - Wigan Art School, Lancashire, England; Degree in Fine Art - Winchester Art School, England; Higher Degree in Fine Art - Chelsea School of Art, London; Art Teachers Diploma - Goldsmiths College, London, England

1973-74 Lived and worked in Sweden and Denmark

1974-85 Lived and worked in Japan

1985 Married, Moved to Santa Monica, California

Solo Exhibitions

1970 Winchester Art School Honorary Show

1980 Kobun Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Nihonbashi, Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo

1981 Art Oriental Gallery, Kurae, Japan; Sato Gallery, Mashiko, Japan; Shinjuku-Sumitomo Gallery, Tokyo

1982 Nihonbashi-Tokyo Art Gallery, Tokyo

1983 Ginza-Mikawa Gallery, Tokyo; Shinjuku-Takano, Kamakura, Japan; Kasagi Gallery, Kamakura, Japan; Obje' Gallery, Gunma Pref.

1984 Ginza-Mikawa Gallery, Tokyo; Shinjuku-Takano Gallery, Tokyo; Ikuta Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan; Kurioso Show Space, Tochigi Pref.; Tadachi-ya Gallery, Matsumoto, Japan

1985 Kyoto Shoin Gallery, Kyoto, Japan; Shinjuku-Takano Gallery, Tokyo; Ginza-Wacoal Art Space, Tokyo; Ginza-Matsuya Gallery, Tokyo

1986 Shinjuku-Takano Gallery, Tokyo; Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohoma, Japan

1987 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, New York

1988 Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England

1989 Ochi Gallery, Boise, Idaho

1990 Ochi Gallery, Boise, Idaho; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden; Architecture Gallery, University of Edinburgh

Group Exhibitions

1971 Young Contemporary Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London

1972 Oxford Museum of Art

1973 Paintings selected for traveling United States

1975-76 "Ogen-Kai", Tokyo

1981-82 Sumitomo Miniature Painting, Tokyo

1982-83 Nishunga-Ten and Nitten, Tokyo

1984-85 Nishunga-Ten and Nitten, Tokyo

1987 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York; Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1988 La Sorda Iri Gallery, Los Angeles

1989 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles

Multi-Media Experiences

1979 Tokyo Television, Substituted for Margaret Thatcher on a pre-Tokyo Summit debate with ex-Prime Ministers Fukuda and Miki

1983 NHK Television "Broad Skies English and Japanese" documentary on Smith's paintings. Similarly featured by TBS Television, Fuji Television, Tokyo Television

1984 NHK Television "Landscape into Art" documentary on Turner and Constable by Smith

1985 Made three outside broadcast films, Painting on Location, Miyazaki Pref., Miyagi Pref., and Tokyo., (about Japanese culture, countryside and religion)

1986 NHK Television "Sunday Museum"

1983-87 Interviewed for various television and radio programs, magazines and newspapers. Gave talks and lectures on art East and West in Japan.

Paintings in numerous private collections in Japan and England.