The Magnified World of Margaret Turner Hicks To gaze upon a work by Margaret Turner Hicks is to enter a realm where the boundaries between the microscopic and the monumental dissolve. Her canvases, often measuring no more than two to four inches, do not merely depict scenes; they invite the viewer into an intimate, breathless encounter with nature. Using nothing more than the finest watercolor brushes and a magnifying glass, Hicks achieved a level of precision that seemed almost impossible for the human eye to sustain. In her hands, a tiny landscape becomes a sprawling vista, and a simple sti…