GeorgiaAtlanta College of Art at the High Museum Dyer studied at the Atlanta College of Art at the High Museum of Art. She furthered her studies with the Russian Portraitist/Muralist Roman Chatov, Marc Chatov-Portraitist, Kate Fetterolf-Pastelist; and James Richards-Painter. Margaret is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America. She is in the Masters Circle of the International Association of Pastel Societies, and is an award-winner in the American Impressionist Society. Margaret has been featured many times in several publications: The Artists Magazine, American Artist, International Artist, Pastel Artist International, The Pastel Journal, and How Did You Paint That? She teaches pastel workshops across the U.S., in France, Ireland and Italy. Creating art has been a continual voyage for me. Learning how to draw: perspective, anatomy, value, color. Learning how to paint: composition, simplifying shapes, mixing colors, brush technique, texture, creating the illusion of dimension on a two-dimensional surface. Learning to sculpt, working in 3 dimensions. I am still eager to learn more. Art has been the main focus in my life, something grounding when life didn’t make sense. Whether it’s at the easel or in the classroom, it is the place I escape to where the noises around me and in my head go quiet. It is my safe place. I am not trying to communicate a message in my work; that would only add to the noise. I am trying to craft something of beauty; something of the beautiful light and color around us.