Welcome!

My name is Margaret Potts. I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent most of my twenties living and working around the United States. I’ve lived in Chicago, South Dakota, Washington D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area before making the full-circle journey home. This site is dedicated to my love of art, writing, photography and music. Over the years, I’ve used each of these mediums as both therapy and inspiration. Currently, my focus for painting is on domestic life, which was inspired by the birth of my sister’s first child, Josephine. When so much in this new world works to distract us from family and true connection to each other, anchoring my concentration on the beauty of the domestic space has been grounding and central to reconnecting with my roots.

Far from a space to be pitied, the domestic realm points to us to the humanity found in labors of love. It has ancient roots that remind us of a private world cultivated outside the marketplace where the value of women, children and caretakers is found to be relational and priceless.

More paintings on the domestic lives of women coming soon along with music and writing.

-Margaret Potts