The posters were the beginning of something great.
Art Inspired By Nature
Traditional Healing Herbs (botanicalposters.com) is the artwork of Margaret Bradley Davis, aka Margo Davis. Traditional Healing Herbs was the first poster she created while studying psychotherapy and art at Burlington College in 1984. She is inspired by nature, and as a teenager became immersed in it while traveling with the Audubon Expedition Institute during her last year of high school, visiting National Parks, camping nightly, and learning from naturalists. She studied with the renowned Vermont herbalist Adelle Dawson, expanding her knowledge of useful herbs. Margo wanted to combine her interest in art, plants, herbs and food into a beautiful and informative format and thus began her unique style of posters.
Margo later studied painting and graphic arts at Pratt Institute in New York and in Paris, eventually committing fifteen years to drawing and painting in her studio. In in 1986 she teamed up with Frontier Cooperative Herbs in Norway, Iowa to create her first series of 16 Botanical Posters including titles such as: Culinary Herbs; Wild Edibles; Chilies; Aromatic Herbs; and Mexican Cooking Spices. With Frontier’s wide marketing arm, the posters wound up in health food stores, cooperatives, botanical gardens, physician and chiropractor offices, health resorts and yoga studios. She created two additional poster series with Wild Apple Graphics and eventually her work was licensed for a wide array of home and stationary products. Margo’s posters were carried by such diverse outlets as Nordstrom's, Macy’s, Pier One, Country Curtains, Ethan Allen, Longwood Gardens, Sturbridge Village and dozens of other outlets.
Psychotherapist, Coach and Writer
In the late 1990's Margo decided to put down her paintbrush and devote the next years to raising her now grown sons. As her boys grew up she was able to focus her attention on other endeavors. This included the ongoing development of a wide array of practical wisdom teachings and practices. In 2006 Margo trained with Julio Olalla to become a life coach and teacher, combining her years of study. She completed her Master of Social Work degree with Adelphi University in 2014 and is currently a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in the Berkshires.
Her psychotherapy and coaching work includes teaching people how to achieve a purpose led and fulfilling life by working with the universal principles, through personal coaching and psychotherapy as well as classes and workshops.
Most recently she has embarked on a renewed artistic adventure to design and paint new botanical posters in her unique style including the freshly minted Heirloom Tomatoes, Heirloom Vegetables, and Culinary Herbs. Margo is working on a book about becoming whole through the process of divorce.