Margaret Bucholz

Margaret Bucholz was born in Japan and lived there 9 years.  She picked up her love for art from her mother who is a Japanese Ikebana (flower arranging) master and an oil painter.  From 9 years of age until age 21 she lived in Hawaii where she picked up her love for bright colors and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from University of Hawaii.  Now a long-time resident of Wheaton, because she has fallen in love with the changing seasons, and the vivid fall colors, she doesn’t plan on moving anywhere else soon.

Many of her watercolor pieces hang in private collections.  To further her skills, she has taken many workshops at The Clearing and Dillman’s Resort from many well-known artists.  Margaret has taken colored pencil classes at Beech Tree Studios in Geneva, Illinois.

Margaret is currently president of Addison Art Guild and teaches colored pencil and watercolor classes at DuPage Art League, and acrylic, watercolor and pencil sketching at Addison Park District, and is available for demos in watercolor (wet-on-wet and pour method) or colored pencil.

Commissioned portraits from photos of pets or people are available upon request.

“There is nothing I would rather do than create art and be in the moment of reflecting beauty which is all around us.”