Exhibition preview: Marguerite Howarth: Artist of Surrey (1908 – 2001), The Lightbox, Woking, August 20 – October 6 2013

Marguerite Howarth, Newark Mill© The Howarth Family
Her early works predominantly concerned the latter genre, deployed during commissions for companies.
But her post-war career moved away from the designs she had shown in several London galleries, producing a calendar in pen and ink for the Woking review.
The scenery and buildings she portrayed during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s add up to a picture of an area in which Howarth was president of Woking Society of Arts.
Her return to Yorkshire, where she is said to have captured a “softer” Yorkshire light in a newer, bluish palette, left her former county with a legacy of keenly-observed landscapes.
- Open 10.30am-5pm (11am-5pm Sunday, closed Monday). Admission free. Follow the gallery on Twitter @TheLightbox.