Senior Canadian artist and author, Margaret Lindsay Holton, began her 40+ year career in the mid-1970s in Southern Ontario, Canada. Central to her legacy, she has created a substantial body of written works of poetry, prose and arts journalism. Her primary focus has always been on the land that sustains us and the freshwater lakes that quench our thirst. As she writes, “ALL of us are Caretakers of this amazing life-sustaining planet. Abusing and neglecting it destroys not only ourselves but every other species. We CAN do better! Smiling Emoji!“

Holton’s three novels explore different aspects of an ever-evolving humanity in a much larger planetary context. Big love; huge hate; elemental envy and ethereal altruism inform her thought-filled pieces.. Equally, her seductive short stories are salient salvos luring readers to her longer works.
Start with the short story collection - Sticks & Stones, work up to TRILLIUM, set in Niagara’s wine country, or The Gilded Beaver, about an ambitious Canadian fine furniture designer’s interaction with a complex, commissioning client. Read engaging prose daily.

Today, semi-retired, Holton has moved out of the concrete congestion of Southern Ontario to a more naturally attuned and older Eastern county near Brockville. There, she is restoring a century-old stone farm home and re-establishing her art studio as a portal to her appreciation of the fine and decorative arts.

Opening next year, in her 70th year, ‘Lindsay’s Place,’ will welcome students, scholars, the like-minded and just the downright nosey to explore - and expand - their understanding of our collective caretaking role.

At the moment, ‘Lindsay’s Place’ is currently Open-By-Appointment-Only. If interested in an imperfect and rambling studio tour, plan on Monday to Friday between 9 to 5pm. Kindly contact the artist to confirm your visit through her website – http://canadadaphotography.blogspot.ca