Background
She was born in Sydenham, South London, on 6 June 1907.
She was born in Sydenham, South London, on 6 June 1907.
She was awarded a scholarship in 1925 to Royal College of Art where she was under the tutelage of William Rothenstein and Randolph Schwabe. In school she submitted her work to the New English Art Club for the Prix de Rome. They lived in central London until the blitz.
Barker mostly produced landscapes but also painted friends and imaginative portraits.
Kenneth Pringle died March 1983 returning Margaret to Sydenham. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery.