BIOGRAPHY

I explore new approaches to figurative art, combining simple figurative forms with elements of abstraction. I use simple colours and brushstrokes, avoiding inconsequential details, in order to focus on and to intensify emotion.

I want to make the heart sing.

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QUALIFICATIONS

DA in Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art (1968).

Postgraduate Scholarship in Painting, Edinburgh College of Art (1969).

MA in Painting (with an essay on the style of Goya), Royal College of Art, London (1972)

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AWARDS

Summer Scholarship, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath.

David Murray Award for Landscape Painting, Royal Academy, London.

Henriques prize for best woman artist, Royal College of Art.

196th RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh Printmakers Award

https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room/49-gillian-mather-print-launch-love/,

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MEMBERSHIP

Visual Arts Scotland (professional member).

Society of Scottish Artists (member).

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