Margaret Kyle

Margaret Kyle I'm a designer, illustrator and Lake Country artist who has been exhibiting work in the Lake Country area since 1995. I have displayed my work at Lake Country ArtWalk, the District offices, the Regional District Library, and in local businesses.

I have been a member of the ArtWalk Planning Committee, Arts Council, and Arts Advisory Board to the District Council. In 2004, I raised $4000 for the rebuilding of the Kettle Valley Trestles by creating and selling a poster with an image I had painted prior to the fire. I have also donated my art for various other fundraisers.

I was born and raised in the Okanagan Valley, and now live in the ward of Okanagan Centre with my author, editor husband, Michael Schwartzentruber. I work in my studio in Lake Country, teach watercolour and acrylic painting, and promote art as a health-giving activity.

Artist Statement:

The world of nature inspires me creatively and I feel a deep connection to the earth and all of creation. I am in accord with the quote attributed to Chief Seattle, “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.”

I have a passion for the community in which I live and the beauty and fragility of the Okanagan Valley where I was born and raised. Also, because the Okanagan Valley is a semi-arid environment, I feel strongly that the protection of our water systems needs to be an imperative. Not only are the large lakes (Okanagan, Wood, and Kalamalka) vulnerable, but also are the out of the way water edges, ponds, and streams. I know that protection and preservation of our waters is not only a concern for the Okanagan but is a universal subject that people are becoming more aware of. Water has deep spiritual meaning for me in that it makes up the basis of all life and connects all life on earth through its life-giving powers.

Exhibitions:

2023 -- Lake Country Garden Show

2022 -- Lake Country District Offices

2020 -- Vertigo Art Galley Member Show, Vernon

2018 -- Peachland Art Gallery Member Show

2017 -- Lake Country Garden Show

2016 -- Lake Country ArtWalk (juried)

2016 -- Lake Country Garden Show

2014 -- Lake Country Coffee House (February)

2013 -- Lake Country District Offices

2011 - 2023 (February, annually) - Member's Show at Lake Country Art Galley

2011 -- Work shown at Ex Nihilo Winery

2011 -- Kelowna Art Gallery Member's Show -- "On the Path to Abstraction"

2010 - 2023 (November, annually) - Under 100 - Lake Country Art Gallery (juried)

2010 -- Inaugural Show at the Lake Country Art Gallery

2008 -- District of Lake Country Offices

2004 -- Fundraiser poster for Kettle Valley Railroad rebuild

2003 -- The Barn Gallery, Oyama

2002 -- Pine Tree Art Collective guest artist, Kelowna

2000 -- Kelowna Regional District Offices

1999-- 2023 (September, annually) Lake Country ArtWalk (juried)

1999 -- Winfield Regional Library

1996 -- Watercolour Group Show, Sorrento Centre

Children’s Book Illustrations

1995-2008 – Illustrations for Lectionary Story Bible, Year A, B, C, by Ralph Milton, Wood Lake Publishing

2007 – Illustrations for After the Beginning, by Carolyn Pogue, Wood Lake Publishing

2010 – Illustrations for Is That Story True?, Laura Alary, Wood Lake Publishing