Margaret MacGregor ‘Peggy’ Angus (9 November 1904 – 28 October 1993) was Scottish but born in Chile. Aged 17 and resettled with her family in London, Peggy won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where her contemporaries included Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Edward Bawden.
She trained to be an art teacher and in the early 1930s, with one of her teaching jobs bringing her to Eastbourne, she discovered ‘Furlongs’ during a walk on the Downs.
The story goes that Peggy fell instantly in love with the ramshackle and primitive stone cottage without running water and decided she must have it. When the local farmer who happened to be living in it refused, Peggy simply set up a tent and camped outside, biding her time until he changed his mind a few months later. Furlongs was initially a weekend retreat where she could immerse herself in painting. One of her closest friends and frequent visitors to Furlongs was the now well-known Eastbourne artist, Eric Ravilious. The two would pack up their equipment, take a picnic and go off onto the Downs painting together, often choosing to depict the same landscape.
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