MARGARET CARSON is an author, traveler, painter and art lecturer well versed in art and global travels. Her latest books have embraced food and cuisine as an activity and she just released a new cookbook of healthy recipes, WISE WEIGHT HEALTHY RECIPES. With degrees from Univ. of Pittsburgh and HBU in Houston TX, her impressionist style artworks and her books on Amazon, coupled with her travel and fun adventures in her fictional and non-fiction writings offer her readers enjoyment and entertainment. She has taught painting and drawing art and lecturing on cruise ships around the world since 2001 with her artist husband Brian Scruby. She has learned skills for cooking tasty meals and about produce farming yields from her father's grocer's businesses, her own travels abroad and youtube classes and foodie series worldwide.
She loves travel in the USA, and its national parks, trees, deserts, and forest settings that feature in her novels like CABERNET WINE CAPER, DOWN TO DEVON, CREOLE ZODIAC KILLER, ADIOS LAS VEGAS, CRASH AT VEGAS CROSSROADS and LAS VEGAS ENCORE. Her painting in plein-air, and her books that include ARTFUL TRAVEL, ARTFUL WATERS. ARTFUL TREES, FINE ART FOR KIDS... her best seller, and ARTFUL STILL LIFE, ARTFUL COLORS, ARTFUL MOUNTAINS and ARTFUL WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUES are rich with bright examples and many color plates from her worldwide travel and culinary experiences. Her sites for study, art, food and writing include: FRANCE, ITALY, SWITZERLAND, ENGLAND, USA, CANADA and PACIFIC and CARIBBEAN islands, PROVENCE, NEW ORLEANS, TEXAS, LAS VEGAS and many, many more! Prego! Let the Good Times Roll. Merci Beaucoup! See her new youth series; GREATEST GIFT A KID CAN GIVE too!