Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy.
John Duncan Fergusson was a Scottish artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the major artists of the Scottish Colourists school of painting.
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundings on the North-East coast of Scotland. One of Scotland's most enduringly popular artists, her career was cut short by breast cancer. Her artistic career had three distinct phases. The first was from 1940 when she enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art through to 1949 when she had a successful exhibition of paintings created while travelling in Italy. From 1950 to 1957, Eardley's work focused on the city of Glasgow and in particular the slum area of Townhead. In the late 1950s, while still living in Glasgow, she spent much time in Catterline before moving there permanently in 1961. During the last years of her life, seascapes and landscapes painted in and around Catterline dominated her output.
Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion, known professionally as Dalziel + Scullion, are a Scottish artist duo. Dalziel and Scullion have worked in collaboration since 1993. Their studio creates artworks in photography, video, sound and sculpture that explore new artistic languages surrounding the subject of ecology.
Luke Fowler is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s. His para-documentary films have explored counter cultural figures including Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, English composer Cornelius Cardew and Marxist-Historian E.P. Thompson. As well portraits of musicians and composers he has also made films and installations that deal with the nature of sound itself. Luke Fowler has worked with a number of collaborators including Eric La Casa, George Clark and Peter Hutton Mark Fell, Lee Patterson, Toshiya Tsunoda and Richard Youngs. He collaborated with guitarist Keith Rowe and film maker and curator Peter Todd on the live sound and film work The Room.
Katharine Cameron RWS RE was a Scottish artist, watercolourist, and printmaker, best known for her paintings and etchings of flowers. She was associated with the group of artists known as the Glasgow Girls.
James Allan Hawkins is an English painter and film maker associated with Scottish Highland landscape. He lives, works and exhibits at his open studio RhueArt in Rhue, three miles North of Ullapool.
Cordelia Patrick Oliver was a Scottish journalist, painter and art critic, noted as an indefatigable promoter of Scottish arts in general and the avant-garde in particular.
Hamish MacDonald DA PAI was a Scottish impressionist and colourist artist from Glasgow, Scotland. His paintings feature mainly landscapes and coastal scenes, with some still-life works. His work features in several major collections, including those of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, the Paisely Art Gallery and that of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Graham Fagen is a Scottish artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. He has exhibited internationally at the Busan Biennale, South Korea (2004), the Art and Industry Biennial, New Zealand (2004), the Venice Biennale (2003) and represented Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 in a presentation curated and organised by Hospitalfield. In Britain he has exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. In 1999 he was invited by the Imperial War Museum, London to work as the Official War Artist for Kosovo.
Mary Newbery Sturrock, née Mary Arbuckle Newbery was a Scottish artist who worked across various media. She is best known as an embroiderer and watercolour artist of flowers.
Tracy Mackenna (1963) is a British sculptor and artist, creating works with her partner Edwin Janssen. She was Course Director at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
David McClure RSA RSW was a Scottish artist and lecturer. He is most well known for his paintings of still lifes, interiors, figures and family portraits as well as his landscape and townscape paintings of Scotland, Italy, Sicily and Spain where he lived and travelled throughout his life.
Deborah Phillips is a Scottish painter who has been painting since the age of 14. She worked in merchandise design for approximately a decade and her work was published in notable women's magazines. She began painting full-time in the late 1990s. Her work is owned by both corporate and private collectors throughout the world.
Margaret Campbell Macpherson was an artist born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Macpherson was well known for her various works of paintings in Scotland. Macpherson later died in Versailles, France.
Margot Sandeman was a Scottish painter, close friend of Joan Eardley and long-time collaborator with poet Ian Hamilton Finlay. She was known for her paintings of West Coast Scottish landscapes, rural settings, interiors and still lives.
Professor Ross Sinclair is a Scottish visual artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Kilcreggan, Argyll and is currently Reader in Contemporary Art Practice at The Glasgow School of Art, whilst also maintaining his professional practice. Sinclair was one of the key figures in the movement of contemporary artists in Glasgow in the 1990s, dubbed the 'Glasgow Miracle' by art curator and critic Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
Jacki Parry RSA is an Australian born artist, printmaker, papermaker, former lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art and a founding member of the Glasgow Print Studio and the Paper Workshop, Glasgow.
Perpetua (Pip) Pope was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flower pieces and still-life compositions in both oil and watercolours, and was also an art teacher in Edinburgh.
Jane Younger (1863–1955) was a Scottish artist known for her watercolour paintings and embroidery work.
