A Life in Colour and Form Born in Wukingfu, China, Margaret Mellis was a Scottish artist who became a central figure in the modernist movement that gathered in St Ives, Cornwall, during the 1940s. After studying at the Edinburgh College of Art and later in Paris under André Lhote, she moved to Carbis Bay in 1939. This period was marked by her engagement with abstraction and collage, notably through works like Collage with Red Triangle…