[1] After gaining a degree in classics from the University of Birmingham, she entered training as a missionary at Kingsmead College in Selly Oak.
[1] Basil became a lecturer at University College, Aberystwyth, and Margaret principally concentrated on raising their six children and organising the household.
[1] This first show proved a great success, as the Arts Council of Wales approached Margaret and inquired whether she would fill a commission forTales from the Mabinogion (1984), an illustrated children's book telling the stories of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi co-authored by Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland.
Despite her late start as a professional artist, Margaret's distinctive, intricate style and her visual story-telling in watercolour gained her recognition as one of Wales's most significant illustrators of folk stories and legends of the 20th century.
[1] Her granddaughter, Seren Morgan Jones, is a contemporary artist specialising in portraiture whose work has won great acclaim and has also been added to the collection of the National Library of Wales.