Archives: Artists

Greer graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Fine Art. An interest in art, however, began much earlier at the age of four when she received her first paintbox from Lord Wheatley, a thank you gift for having presented a bouquet of flowers to his wife. Throughout her career […]

Helen studied English and History as an undergraduate and went on to teach in the UK and in the Himalayas for several years before settling in the Scottish Borders where her career as an artist began. For the past twenty years she has been painting and exhibiting in the UK and abroad. She was awarded […]

Jackie graduated with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Art Practice in Glasgow in 2014. Her background has involved a variety of creative pursuits, including children’s book illustration and craft work. She lived and grew up on the east coast of Scotland and likes to incorporate her experience of rural living and her love of the […]

Jane was born in 1976. She studied Fine Art at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, completing her Master of Arts degree in 1999.  She has won numerous awards and scholarships including the Cooper and Lybrand Competition in 1996, John Kinross Scholarship to Florence in 1997 and the James Torrance Memorial Award from the Royal Glasgow Institute […]

Jane Blair comes from a design background which you can see immediately in her work, she endeavours to capture the moment and is so in tune to natures ever changing light, fleeting glimpses of change that make the everyday remarkable. Landscapes and animals are her forte, her free light touch is unmistakably her own, she […]

A graduate from Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, Janice later worked, rather appropriately, for a period as Artist in Residence at Edinburgh Zoo. Her highly decorative, amusing and beautifully observed works combine birds, animals, fruit, handbags, high-heeled shoes , teacups with witty writing commenting various aspects and  foibles of her real and imagined menagerie of […]

Jean Hall was born in Dundee and is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art. She was employed as an Art & Design Lecturer in a College environment for sixteen years. After leaving teaching she has been painting and exhibiting on a full-time basis both nationally and internationally. “My paintings are essentially decorative – intended […]

Joe Hargan is highly respected and stands out among Scottish artists as he rejects the pastiche (imitation) and is his own man, with his own unique artistic style – that is why his art is so interesting to his many collectors. Joe is proud of the fact that his skills were honed in one of […]

Johann Booyens is a printmaker and paper artist working and living in Glasgow. A teacher and lifelong student, he collaborates with other artists to combine traditional printmaking with exploratory techniques and processes. He works with various professional and novice artists on corporate and private projects and has exhibited his own work locally and abroad. As […]

The Grandson of a ploughman and nephew to a shepherd and a grieve, John McClenaghen grew up in Falkirk where relatives on his mother’s side of the family remained in farming. His early years were therefore partly spent on farms around Stirlingshire and later the East Lothian coast where the land meets the sea with […]