Marguerite Larmand was born in 1939 in Victoria Harbour on the southern shores of Georgian Bay, Ontario where she grew up in a farming community. At nine years of age she was participating in most farming activities and creating, in her solitary hours, private ‘places’ that resemble some of the installation work she does today.

She received a BA in Art and Art History from McMaster University, Hamilton and an MA in Art Education from the State University of New York, Buffalo. Her thirty-five years in all levels of education included an Ontario Teachers' Federation award for outstanding and creative teaching.

Since her retirement from the teaching profession in 1995, Larmand's career as an artist has expanded with solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in Eastern Europe, the founding of Cauldron Gallery in Brantford and with her 2008 move to Simcoe, Ontario, the beginning of a Sculpture and Butterfly Garden at Fieldstone, her residence and studio on Evergreen Hill Road.

For several years Larmand has been working to understand phenomena such as constant change, embeddeness and integrity . Making these phemomena visible is what motivates her to continue working. More recently ceramics has been her material of choice and combined with other art forms, it provides opportunity for examining the durability that ceramics has always offered as well as aspects of transience in both the glazes and the imagery with which it is related.