Sue Biazotti
Sue Biazotti studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art between 1980 and 1984. She continued her studies at Byam Shaw School of Art in London as a postgraduate student working in the life room, and continued to live and work in London until 1996, when she returned to Scotland. She has had many solo exhibitions in commercial galleries, as well as in other locations such as empty commercial premises, and is currently the first artist in residence at Glasgow’s Western Baths Club. She was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields scholarship on leaving college, was runner-up in the Morrison Scott Portrait Award in 1998, and in 2005 won the Aspect Painting Prize.

 

Gerard M. Burns
Gerard M. Burns was born in Glasgow in 1961 and graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1983 with a degree in Fine Art. Drawing and Painting have been his passion since childhood. He shared this enthusiasm throughout his teaching career, later leaving a successful post as principal of art at St Aloysius College Glasgow to pursue his painting fulltime. His growing client base varies from A-list celebrities to prominent members of business communities in the UK, Australia, Europe and the USA. His painting The Rowan hangs over the desk of the Scottish First Minister at the Scottish Parliament.

 

George Devlin
George Devlin studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1955 and 1960, where he won the premier awards and top national scholarships from the Royal Scottish Academy, then studied extensively in Europe. He lived and worked in West Africa after crossing the Sahara. On returning to Scotland, he taught composition in the Painting School of GSA from 1962. In 1964 he was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). He received a major Arts Council award in 1968 before he set up his own painting school in 1969, which he later transferred to France.

 

Archie Forrest
Archie Forrest was born in Glasgow in 1950. He attended Glasgow School of Art between 1969 and 1973 prior to becoming a tutor there for seven years. In 1985, he gave up his teaching so that he could devote his time to painting. He was elected a Member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1988 and has been a regular exhibitor there and at the Royal Scottish Academy since 1975. He has exhibited at Portland Gallery since the late 1980s. He has won numerous awards for both his painting and sculpture. Examples of his work can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide.

 

Jack Frame
Jack Frame is originally from Kent, where he graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design before attending Glasgow School of Art. At GSA he had a very successful Degree Show and was awarded the Landscape Drawing Prize and Standard Life Prize. From 2007 until June 2010 he held the artist in residence position at Lomond School in Helensburgh. He was a prizewinner at the prestigious Jolomo Awards in 2009. He currently lives in Glasgow and paints fulltime in his Bath Street studio. His recent feature in the BBC documentary The Glasgow Boys displayed his passion for painting landscape from observation. He is best known for his portraits of trees.

 

Peter Howson
Peter Howson was born in London in 1958 and spent most of his childhood in Isleworth before the family moved to Prestwick. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1981. He travelled to Bosnia in 1993 as the Official British War Artist, was the set designer of Scottish Opera’s 1995 production of Don Giovanni, and has painted portraits of Madonna and Henrik Larsson. His work has been exhibited at the Flowers Gallery in both London and New York. He was awarded the Henry Moore Foundation Prize in 1988, the Lord Provost’s Medal of Glasgow in 1995 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde in 1996.

 

Robert Kelsey
Robert Kelsey was born in Glasgow in 1949 and studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1966 and 1970. He had a career in art education until 1995, when he became a fulltime artist. He has had solo exhibitions throughout the UK, including at Thompson’s Gallery in London, and his works are in the collections of, among others, Turnberry Hotel, Paisley Art Gallery, Sir Arnold Clark and His Grace The Duke of Bedford. He was awarded the Diploma of Artistic Excellence of the Paisley Art Institute in 1998, became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2009 and received an Honorary Master’s Degree from the University of the West of Scotland in 2010.

 

Jock MacInnes
Jock MacInnes was born in 1943 and gained a BA at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1966 and being highly commended in his postgraduate year. He won first prize in the 1978 Colquhoun Memorial Painting Competition, and the 1988 and 1991 Scottish Drawing Competition at Paisley Art Institute, as well as receiving the 1991 Cargill Award and 1999 Scottish Amicable Prize from the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He was elected to the Council of The Society of Scottish Artists in 1993 and the RGI in 1995. He completed a Charles Rennie Mackintosh residency at Collioure, France in 2009. His work is exhibited regularly throughout the UK and is in a number of major collections, including those of Glasgow University and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

 

Edward Hasell McCosh
Edward Hasell McCosh studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and at the L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He has had several highly acclaimed exhibitions of his work, which is held in many important private collections throughout the UK, as well as in North America and Holland.

 

Lin Pattullo
Lin Pattullo exhibits her work regularly in galleries throughout Scotland, as well as in London and the West of England. She is an elected member of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists (GSWA) and the Paisley Art Institute (PAI). She has exhibited many times at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) and the Royal Scottish Academy.

 

Greer Ralston
Greer Ralston graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a BA Hons in Fine Art. Shortly after leaving GSA she was awarded the Greenshields International Scholarship for figurative art. She has worked as a freelance artist for a number of years and has works in public and private collections in the UK and abroad, including those of international sportsmen and entrepreneurs. She lectures and runs a variety of classes and is often called upon to present to Art Groups throughout Scotland. She has also exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

 

Glen Scouller
Glen Scouller was born in Glasgow in 1950 and studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1968 and 1973, where he received the RSA Painting Award in 1972. He was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) in 1989, from which he received the David Cargill Award in 2006, and of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 1997. He has had forty solo exhibitions in the UK and South Africa since 1977. His works are in a number of public and private collections worldwide, including The Scottish Office in Edinburgh, De Beers and the First National Bank of South Africa.

 

Tom Shanks
Thomas Hovell Shanks has been painting for over seventy years, mostly watercolour landscapes of the West Highlands and Islands. His family visits to Skye in 1929 onwards had a profound effect on his work emotionally and nostalgically. He began his career with Templeton carpets and first exhibited with the Templeton Art Club in 1937. After World War II he was encouraged to enter Glasgow School of Art. He has worked at freelance mural painting, stage designing and with the Edinburgh Tapestry Company at Dovecot Studios. He then taught in secondary schools before retiring in 1980. He is a Member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW).

 

Jill Watson
Jill Watson was born in Edinburgh in 1957 and grew up on a farm in the Carse of Gowrie. She spent five years at Edinburgh College of Art and went to Italy to learn to carve marble. For the last twenty-five years she has worked beside the artisans in the workshops and studios of Pietrasanta near Carrara and now works in Edinburgh. As a figurative sculptor she mainly works in bronze. She has carried out public commissions for The Queen’s Gallery, Holyrood, The Hub, Edinburgh’s Festival Centre and Hampton Court. She is currently working on a monument to Scottish seamen in Leith.

 

Hugh Watt
Hugh Watt is a Northern Irish artist based in Glasgow. His internationally shown work is known for its evocative imagery centred around the mediums of film, video and photography. He graduated from the Master of Fine Arts course at Glasgow School of Art in 1999, where he now teaches in the electronic media studio. In 2004 he completed a three-month Cove Park residency.

 

Elaine Wilson
Elaine Wilson was born in Kilmarnock and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art, Dundee, where she gained a BA in Sculpture, before heading to London where she attained an MA from the Royal Academy and also the coveted Gold Medal. She was the artist-in-residence at Newcastle University in 2008–9. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the UK, most recently in Newcastle, Bath and at the Gift Gallery in London. Her works are in the collections of the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, and the Perth Museum and Art Gallery.

 

Gordon Wilson
Gordon Wilson was born in 1968 and educated in Glasgow. He has spent the last twenty years in the art field, as a designer, picture framer, restorer, art dealer and artist. He has exhibited at both the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) and the Paisley Arts Institute, from which he received the 2009 Art de Caf Award, as well as throughout Scotland. His work can be found in private collections all over the world. He was the winner of the Flora Wood Award in 2006 and 2008.

 

Helen Wilson
Helen Wilson was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1954. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and at Hospitalfield Art Centre. During this time she was awarded the Robert Hart Bursary and Governor’s Prize, Hospitalfield, a travelling scholarship (Italy and Yugoslavia), the W.O. Hutcheson Prize for Drawing, the Postgraduate Studies Award (GSA) and the John and Mabel Craig Award.