Catriona Campbell

Born and brought up in Dollar, Catriona studied at Glasgow School of Art (1957–61). She was taught to observe by her father who was also a painter, Catriona was “taught by a man who was taught by a man who was taught by a man who was taught by Manet.” She has been awarded the GSA Somerville Shanks Prize for Portraiture, the Society of Scottish Woman Artists Founder’s Prize, the Anne Redpath Award and Morton Fraser Award.

She was taught about paint from David Donaldson at Glasgow, Catriona learned the importance of space from the works of Degas, Uccello and Velasquez. Her love of colour and light is clear in her work which highlights Catriona’s fascination for the shapes figures make and he spaced formed between them. Catriona has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and her work is included in private collections in the UK, Spain, Hong Kong, New Zealand, America and Australia.