My mother called me Margaret, a humble flower with separate petals, like a premonition and a destiny. I’m always laughing, and since I was very little, my mouth looked like a valley of endless smiles with three separate teeth. It is not that much has changed, but a smile move away you from failures and bring you closer to creativity.

I paint to live, to find the person (mask in Latin) and the people behind their semblance, to find their souls since my own existence.

My enthusiasm for portraits comes from my childhood. My mother and my classmates were my first clients. Sirens and transparent sea beds always occupied a privileged place. According to Rilke, the homeland is childhood: light and color, stories and fables, poetry and smells that always accompany me. I started at the Massana School of Art at 20, already pregnant, and two years later I returned to work and made my first exhibition with schoolmates. It was a fertile stage in vital and professional learning, in which I also designed handkerchiefs and illustrations for magazines. I sold my first work to a stranger, how could it be otherwise.

Subsequently, I sharer in the creation of a publishing house and a literary magazine. It was an especially magical stage, painting in the afternoon in a small space on Avenida Diagonal in Barcelona. However, the creation of an art school near Las Ramblas, with two schoolmates, did not work out; but learning requires it, as when you draw that smile that who dont want to appear in a portrait during days and nights.

I live in the District of Horta, Barcelona, where I have a studio and I give private lessons. I also collaborate and I am a teacher at the Hervás Amezcua Foundation, in Gavà.
I continue to learn and transmit new and old techniques of portraits, and I also do them continuously, for individuals and for individual and collective exhibitions. I still have the same smile, the same curiosity and the same desire to live and create. My name is Margarida García-Andreu, and I invite you to enter my world, which is yours. You will be welcome.