She later married a blond-haired, blue-eyed Frenchman
and the family moved to Morocco. Since she could not
afford to buy artwork to decorate their home there, she
decided to paint her own. She used several different
styles so that people would not guess that she had
painted them all. This valuable experience rapidly
developed her techniques and helped to give Ursula a
distinctive style of her own.
Later she became an international forwarder in
Marseilles where she had her own company, and she
continued her painting as a lovely hobby.
Today, having retired, she spends her winters painting
and her summers sailing in the Mediterranean.
© Douglas Caddy Gold Coast Australia 2014
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Ursula Margareta Skoglund
Was born in Gothenburg, Sweden
and at a young age moved to the
Stockholm area where she went to school
at Saltsjöbaden and later studied at
Stockholm University. She always had good
marks in Art so her mother wanted her to
go to Fine Arts School. Ursula said: “I want
to earn money now, not when I’m dead” so
she enrolled instead to study modern
languages. During her studies she worked
part time as a bank employee.
In 1961 after completing her studies,
Ursula left Sweden and spent four months
in France at the University of Lille
brushing up her spoken French. She then
went working at the Swedish Consulate in
Algiers, in the middle of the war for
independence from France.
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