Margaret Mellor studied drawing and painting at art schools in Bradford and Leeds. She has held various teaching posts and settled in London with actor-husband (the late James Mellor) and two sons, Matthew and Ben.

She began to collect the colour supplements of the 'Observer' and the 'Sunday Times' because of their outstanding photography. She then started to use the images to make collages. Margaret does not usually start with a subject in mind, but with an interesting image or colour, then adds other images, often unrelated.

In order to name a piece, Margaret will take two objects from the many which make up her collages, break up the words which most appropriately describe the images, and put two parts together to form the title. For example, 'bones' and 'Africa' became "Bonica".

These works are very high quality photographic reproductions, mounted on acid free board.