‘Geordie Girl in a red dress’, (2011). Oil on linen, 90 x 120 cm  2011

I met Margaret Clark at art school in Newcastle upon Tyne in the late 1950s where she was studying fine art and printed textiles. She lived with her sister Patsy and parents in the poor, working class, West End district of Elswick (178 Stone St) not far from Newcastle's football ground - St Jame's Park - and the Scotswood Rd. The houses consisted of two flats and she lived...