Margaret Green decided to pursue an artistic career after meeting the artist and critic Patrick Heron (1920-1999) as a young girl while on a family vacation in Yorkshire. After graduating from her local art school, she received a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art, at the time operating from the Lake District following the outbreak of the Second World War (Gilbert Spencer was the Professor Painting at the time). It was there she met her lifelong partner and fellow artist, Lionel Bulmer. After the War, the pair lived in Chelsea and taught in art schools, Green at Walthamstow School of Art and then the Royal Academy Schools. Together, Green and Bulmer painted scenes of London's parks, streets, and embankments before focussing on the Sussex coast and countryside. They subsequently settled in the Suffolk countryside near Stowmarket, which became their artistic haven.

The present work is typical of Green’s sensitive approach to painting, with a soft light and delicate feel for harmony. Her work is held in numerous public UK collections.