Margaret Majo was born in 1956 in Murewa, Zimbabwe. After studying design and illustration at the Harare Polytechnic, she was selected to exhibit at the National Gallery in 1991 as part of the Zimbabwe Heritage Exhibitions.

Majo developed her characteristic bottle-top paintings under the instruction of a German official at the Chinembiri Training Centre in Mbare. Short of conventional materials, the official suggested that Majo could utilize the tops of bottles that were to be thrown away. In retrospect, it was the perfect medium for the artist's delicate and precise style.

She began to exhibit these works in 1994. Each of the painted bottle tops depict a scene of everyday village life: w...