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List Of Scottish Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in or are closely associated with Scotland. A *Janet Macdonald Aitken (1873–1941), painter * Ann Dunlop Alexander (1896–1969), painter, illustrator * Lena Alexander (1899–1983), painter * Jessie Algie (1859–1927), flower painter * Mary Parsons Reid Allan (1917–2002), painter * Marion Ancrum (fl. 1885–1919), painter * Anne Anderson (1874–1952), illustrator *Louise Gibson Annand (1915–2012), painter, filmmaker * Hazel Armour (1894–1985), sculptor, medallist *Mary Nicol Neill Armour (1902–2000), painter *Annie R. Merrylees Arnold (fl. 1890s–1930s), miniature painter * Susan Ashworth (fl. 1860–1880), painter * Joan Ayling (1907–1993), miniature painter B * Isabel Brodie Babianska (1920–2006), painter, costume designer, set designer, illustrator * Barbara Balmer (1929–2017), painter * Elizabeth Balneaves (1911–2006), painter, writer, filmmaker *Violet Banks (1896–1985), painter *Claire Barclay (born 1968 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Banks
Violet Banks (3 March 1896 – 1985) was a Scottish artist who painted in oils and watercolours and also decorated pottery. Biography Banks was born in Kinghorn in Fife and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. She lived in Kirkcaldy for a time before returning to Edinburgh in 1928 to take the post of art mistress at St Ornan's School. She painted figure subjects and interiors in both oil and watercolour and was highly regarded as a pottery decorator. Banks was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Scottish Society of Women Artists and the Society of Scottish Artists. Examples of works by Banks are held in the national art collection of Scotland. In November 2022 Banks' work featured in the GLEAN exhibition at Edinburgh's City Art Centre of 14 early women photographers working in Scotland. The photographs and films that were curated by Jenny Brownrigg were by Helen Biggar, Banks, Christina Broom, M.E. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemima Blackburn
Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn (1 May 1823 – 9 August 1909) was a Scottish painter whose work illustrated rural life in 19th-century Scotland. One of the most popular illustrators in Victorian Britain, she illustrated 27 books. Her greatest ornithological achievement was the second edition of her ''Birds from Nature'' (1868). Most of the illustrations were watercolors, with early paintings often including some ink work. A few were collages, in which she cut out a bird's outline and transferred it to a different background, in a similar manner to John James Audubon. Her many watercolours showed daily family life in the late 19th-century Scottish Highlands as well as fantasy scenes from children's fables. She achieved widespread recognition under the initials JB or her married name Mrs Hugh Blackburn. Early life and family connections She was born at 31 Heriot Row in Edinburgh. She was the youngest child of James Wedderburn (1782-1822), Solicitor General for Scotland, who die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Blackadder
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, (24 September 1931 – 23 August 2021) was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. In 1962 she began teaching at Edinburgh College of Art where she continued until her retirement in 1986. Blackadder worked in a variety of media such as oil paints, watercolour, drawing, and printmaking. In her still life paintings and drawings, she considered space between objects carefully. She also painted portraits and landscapes but her later work contains mainly her cats and flowers with extreme detail. Her work can be seen at the Tate Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has appeared on a series of Royal Mail stamps. In 2012, Blackadder was chosen to paint Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's official Christmas card. Early years Blackadder was born and raised at 7 Weir Street, Falkirk, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karla Black
Karla Black (born 1972) is a Scottish sculptor who creates abstract three-dimensional artworks that explore the physicality of materials as a way of understanding and communicating the world around us. In 2011, Black was nominated for the Turner Prize and also represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Modern Art Oxford and Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany. Black represented Scotland at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Early life and education Black was born 1972 in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire and studied Sculpture at The Glasgow School of Art from 1995 to 1999. From there, Black gained an MPhil in Art in Organisational Contexts from the year 1999 to 2000, as well as an MFA in fine arts from 2002 to 2004. Artistic style Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Spence Black
Ann Spence Black (22 May 1860 - 22 February 1947) was a Scottish artist known for her landscape and flower paintings. Biography Black was born at Dysart in Fife and appears to have been a self-taught artist. Although she lived in Edinburgh for most of her life, there were several other locations in Scotland that she regularly depicted in her paintings. These included the Scottish east coast and the area around Culross. Black was a prolific painter and as well as landscapes also produced richly coloured flower pieces. She was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Scottish Academy between 1896 and 1946. During her career she had some 95 works shown at the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society, RSW, and almost 40 with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Black was elected to the RSW in 1917 and to the Society of Scottish Artists in 1940. Works by Black are held in the City of Edinburgh collection, by Kirkcaldy Galleries, by The McManus in Dundee and by the University of St A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Biggar
Helen Biggar (25 May 1909 – 28 March 1953) was a Scottish sculptor, filmmaker and theatre designer. She was politically active in the 1930s, she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and was one of the filmmakers behind ''Hell UnLtd'', recognised as one of Britain's most important pieces of avant-garde political film. Life and education Biggar was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1909, the eldest daughter of Florence and Hugh Biggar, a founding member of the Independent Labour Party. She was the niece of John Biggar, Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1941 and 1943. As a child she fell victim to a number of accidents including two injuries to her spine, which affected her height. Biggar enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art in 1925, at the age of 16, to study textile design, and graduated in 1929. She then went on to study sculpture at postgraduate level. Following her graduation, she set up a studio in the city. In 1945, Biggar moved to London, marrying Eli Montlake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Bevan
Anne Bevan (born 1965) is a Scottish visual artist, sculptor, and lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art. Early life She graduated with an MA Hons in Fine Art (Sculpture) from the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art between 1983 and 1988. Career Her exhibitions include ''Rosengarten,'' a collaboration with writer Janice Galloway at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow in 2004. This exhibition was inspired by research into obstetric instruments and the mechanics of childbirth. It featured nine light tables with sculptural pieces in bronze, plaster and fabric, and poems and text by Janice Galloway. A review featured in The List (magazine), The List at the time of the exhibition in 2004 said: “Bevan engages with the obstetric forms but you also feel an infinity lies within the materials she uses, a sense of investment, which is echoed in Galloway’s text. The two elements are essential to one another. The text subtly lifts you out of the materiality of the sculptures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Berrie
Christine Berrie is a Scottish illustrator and artist based in Glasgow. She is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including such objects as wall plates, gas meters, dials, buttons and switches, control boxes, electrical objects, machinery, and appliances. Berrie, who has been active since 2003, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication from Glasgow School of Art, and her Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art in London. She began developing an interest in industrial designs as a child when her father, a draughtsman, brought technical drawings home from work. These drawings, by her own account, fascinated her. After graduating from RCA in 2002, Angus Hyland of Pentagram Design Studio attended her degree show, purchased one of her books, and invited her to contribute to '' Hand to Eye: Contemporary Illustration'', a book he published in 2003. Hyland then organised a display of her work at Pentagram's London offices; the show consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Arthur Behenna
Katherine Arthur Behenna (born 1860 – 21 September 1926), also known as Kathleen Arthur Behenna, was a Scottish-born portrait miniaturist, poet, spiritualist, and suffragist. She sometimes wrote articles using the masculine pseudonyms John Prendergast and John Prendregeist. Early life Katherine Arthur was born in 1860 in Helensburgh, Scotland.Eve M. KahnPortrait Miniatures Flow Out of the Attic ''The New York Times'' (September 19, 2013): C30. She and her brother William were twins. Their father Alexander Arthur was from Montreal, Canada. She was educated in Montreal, Boston, as well as at the Art Students League of New York and the Académie Julian in Paris. In New York, she studied with George de Forest Brush, Carroll Beckwith, and John Henry Twachtman. She married Henry Behenna in 1885. Career Painting and organizing Behenna painted miniature portraits on ivory, often of American socialites of the Gilded Age for art collector Peter Marié, including Antoinette Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Beaton
Penelope Beaton ARSA RSW (1886-1963) was a Scottish watercolour painter influenced by the expressionism movement. A member of both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Society of Watercolour Painters, Beaton was both an alumna and a senior lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art and had her work exhibited widely across Scotland. Early life Beaton was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 1917. After commencing her studies she briefly worked as a school mistress at Hamilton Academy. Her former pupils included one of the Glasgow Girls Mary Nicol Neill Armour, who reportedly was greatly encouraged by Beaton's support. Beaton subsequently became a member of the faculty staff at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) in 1919, eventually becoming the Head of the Junior Department. Notable colleagues included John Maxwell who was appointed as her assistant. He later became a senior lecturer in painting and drawing at the ECA and a notable painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford (born 1983) is a Scottish illustrator. Her illustrations are hand-drawn, predominantly in black and white, with pencils and pens. Basford's works can be found in products such as colouring books, wallpaper, beer labels and even tattoos. She is known to be a pioneer of the adult colouring book trend. Biography Johanna Basford was born in 1983 in Scotland and grew up on her parents' fish farm in Auchnagatt in Aberdeenshire. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) in Dundee in 2005 with a degree in textile Design and a specialization in screen printing. Basford lives and works in Aberdeenshire, Scotland where she owns a small studio in a converted farmhouse with large windows that overlook the surrounding fields. She believes computer generated graphics can feel "cold and soulless," which is why she uses traditional media. Since publishing her first adult colouring book ''Secret Garden'' in 2013, she has sold more than 21 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
