Margaret Potts was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and has lived in Chicago, South Dakota, Washington D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area before making the full-circle journey home. By day she works with the formerly incarcerated, and in between she explores painting, poetry, photography, writing, and music like retreats from the world.

Currently, her focus for painting is on portraits of domestic life, inspired by the birth of her 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 her concentration on the beauty of the domestic space has been grounding and central to reconnecting with her 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.

Margaret is also preparing a musical album and her first collection of poems for release.