Samone Turnbull

Margie Sheppard has been in my orbit from very early days with a six degree separation many times over. But we didn't meet until 2010 when we were paired in an exhibition in Sydney as two Adelaide figurative artists.

Margie's printmaking practice had increasingly shifted towards painting but her emblematic dreamlike images, which had always moved me, remained. Whereas my direction in art was soon to change from the narrative into the making of decorative ceramics, and then later on, Margie's to abstraction.

Now we have happily found ourselves together again, both given over to the love of colour and the play of interlocking shapes.