Margaret Hehman-Smith is an internationally known artist. Using a wide variety of materials and techniques, her art ranges from paper to canvas, pastels to acrylic paint. She creates both two and three dimensional artwork.

Margaret Hehman-Smith received a master's degree in fine arts (MFA) in painting and printmaking from Otis Art Institute in l975. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia PA. Her studies also include a 3-month artist-in-residence grant at the Centre Genevois de Gravure Comtemporaine in Geneva, Switzerland.

Though widely traveled in Europe, she now lives in Hollydale CA on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She converted her garage to a studio that she likes better than her old routine; driving to a loft in downtown LA. Click here to see a list of buyers and collectors of the artwork of MHS, including a long list of corporations.

Hehman-Smith’s work is considered uniquely personal and sequential in theme regardless of size and media used. She consideres each work to be a fragment of the whole image--never-ending. Her work is based on Zen philosophy; mankind is insignificant to nature, and all objects have a spirit, animate or inanimate.

She doesn’t copy nature and gives an interpretation from looking close. She claims the closer one looks at nature, the more abstract the image becomes.

An important part of her works is her concept of "cuts as line and form". In this process, she uses the cuts in the canvas or paper as a drawing too. Then the cuts morph into form. In one painting called "Night Leaves", the cuts in the canvas form shimmering leaves against a black background. The leaf forms suggest a tree, although the tree is not literal.

With a home office set-up, she writes articles, stories and poetry--many which have been published. She is a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Authors).