Margriet has been a glass artisan for over 25 years.  She began with traditional cut stained glass, assembled with lead or copperfoil into window panels, lamps and small stained glass crafts.  In 1990   began working on stained glass with overlays of lead and thin mylar film.   She uses the glass surface as a canvas, allowing the designs to have a more painterly quality.  During the 90’s traditional custom architectural glass-work was her main focus.  She designed and produced hundreds of custom stained glass projects for homes, businesses and churches in the Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Toronto areas.  She co-owned SGO Designer Glass with a studio and showroom on Victoria Street in Kitchener 1990 until 1996, then moved this to her Toronto artStudio.  

         Since 1998 her stained glass designs evolved to included her original artglass series “Art to Go” - ready to hang stained glass window panels.  Shown and sold at the “the One of a Kind show” Toronto, 1997-2008. and numerous Ontario craft shows, at the SeeView Gallery in Kincardine until 2018,  and still today in fine craft store in Ontario.   "MVE designs for custom glass decor" includes artGlass panels for window decor, insets for cabinet glass, entryway side lites and front door windows.  Her unique and original  designs using this overlay method are inspired by forests and trees, fountain grasses, birds and beveled gardens. (see the Link to  MVE Legacy Gallery)   

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       Until 1996  Margriet's career, alongside her glass and claywork, included over 18 years as on-staff then Consultant in the Toronto Advertising Industry, specifically in the management of creative department, print production department, workflow management systems, as well as VP, Director of Agency Operations including affiliated Graphic Art Studio.