Summertime, and the living is easy... Painting

Currently showing at The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts in Belfast, Oct 18th 2024- Jan 5th 2025. The work selected for this show ('Hello Dolly') was first shown at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2023, then at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2024. Previous shows include the Cookham Festival Sculpture Garden 2022 and The Scottish Gallery's garden exhibition 2023. Represented by the Compass Gallery and Gerber Fine Art in Glasgow, Scotland, I have work in public and private collections in the UK, with several in the University of Edinburgh's collection and a prominent work - a commissioned bronze bust of Nelson Mandela - in Glasgow City Chambers. Other works are in France and the US. Other achievements: Autumn 2019 completed a private commission for a statuette in bronze of a pioneer of women’s golf for the R&A Golf Museum in St Andrews. Solo show of a series of paintings at the John Radcliffe, Oxford, based on time spent on the Cote d'Azur. A series of drawings and paintings of Dorset landscapes and sheep paintings was shown at Aspects Gallery in Dorchester, summer 2018. Born in Edinburgh, daughter of a sculptor and stonemason, I was trained in traditional methods at Liverpool and Winchester Schools of Art in the 1970’s - an early winner of the Northern Young Contemporaries Prize awarded by the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester in1975. Winchester had superb visiting and in-house lecturers in the 1970's and I benefited from teaching by William Pye, Norman Ackroyd, Patrick Heron, John Bellany and many others who were both great artists and good teachers. A specialist in portraits from both live sitters and reconstructions, and also a classicist,I created a reconstruction of Alexander the Great in 2018, after a period of extensive research undertaken for an MA in Classics.