Christine McArthur
winter evening thoughts - mm/b - 76 x 76cm
poppies and summer fruits - mm/b - 76 x 76cm
sunflowers - mm/b - 76 x 76cm
cacti on a white table iv - a/b - 76 x 76cm
two tables - mixed media on board - 102 x 102cm
purple anemones - acrylic on canvas - 40 x 40cm
summer fruits i - acrylic on canvas - 60 x 60cm
red poppies - acrylic on canvas - 60 x 60cm
poppies, white strawberries and a lemon - mixed media on board - 76 x 76cm
musical snowdrops - acrylic on canvas - 40 x 40cm
summer fruits ii - acrylic on canvas - 60 x 60cm
a winter window with hellebores & snowdrops - acrylic on canvas - 40 x 40cm
narcissi and susie cooper coffee cup - acrylic on canvas - 40 x 40cm
poem in october - mixed media on board - 76 x 76cm
for a february friend - mixed media on board - 76 x 76cm
red anemones in a clay pot - acrylic on canvas - 40 x 40cm
kitchen table with eggs and two fish - acrylic on canvas - 30 x 40cm
kitchen table with coffee pot, lemons and pears - acrylic on canvas - 30 x 40cm
kitchen table with snowdrops - acrylic on canvas - 30 x 40cm
kitchen table with frying fish - acrylic on canvas - 30 x 40cm
cacti on a white table iii - acrylic on board - 46 x 76cm
A is for asparagus - embroidery on linen - 79 x 89cm
fish on a pedestal - acrylic on canvas - 15 x 15cm
cacti on a white table ii - acrylic on board - 46 x 76cm
cacti - walnut ink on board - 38 x 38cm
winter fruit bowl ii - acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30cm
winter fruit bowl i - acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30cm
pears in a dish - acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30cm
cacti on a white table i - acrylic on board - 46 x 76cm
Dance iii - embroidery on linen - 34 x 40cm
Dance i - embroidery on linen - 34 x 40cm
Dance ii - embroidery on linen - 34 x 40cm
stilton pot with hellebores - walnut ink on paper - 19 x 22cm
kitchen table with virol jar - walnut ink on board - 23 x 23cm
kitchen table with baguette - walnut ink on board - 23 x 23cm
mustard pot with hellebores - walnut ink on paper - 19 x 22cm
Christine McArthur is a still life painter, born in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow in 1953. She studied at The Glasgow School of Art between 1971 & 1976, which included a post-diploma year.
After graduating she taught and produced book illustrations until the demand for her work enabled her to paint full time. Her early work was primarily in oil and she became well known for her large-scale still life paintings on canvas. In the late 1980s she began to work in oil pastel and watercolour but more recently she has reverted to oil, as well as acrylic and collage.
Christine McArthur was awarded Scottish Education Department travelling scholarships in 1975 and 1976 and was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1990.
In 1995 she was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. In 1997, the iconic department store, John Lewis commissioned four large murals each 6ft x 15ft for the Glasgow store unveiled in 1999. In 2002 she received a futher commission from John Lewis for murals for the extension to their Peter Jones store in Sloane Square, London.
Solo Exhibitions from 1984 – present include:
Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington; Sue Rankin Gallery, London; Fine Art Society, Glasgow; Portland Gallery, London; Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow; Ancrum Gallery, Roxburgh; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Courtyard Gallery, Crail; John Martin Gallery, London; Gertsey Gallery, Moscow; Gertsey Gallery, Atlanta, USA; Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall; Ainscough Gallery, Devon; The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Thackeray Gallery, London
Private and Corporate Collections include:
Lord Irvine of Lairg; Scottish Arts Council; Glasgow Caledonian University; Arthur Anderson; Scottish Nuclear PLC; University of Strathclyde; Amerada Hess Corporation; Craig Capital Corporation; Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie; Argyll Group PLC; United Distillers PLC; Clydesdale Bank PLC; Macfarlane Group (Clansman) PLC; Royal Bank of Scotland PLC; Export & Import Bank of Japan; John Lewis Partnership PLC (Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh & Peter Jones, London); Gertsev Gallery, Moscow; Gertsev Gallery, Atlanta, USA; Pernod Ricard; Brian Maule, Chardon d’Or, Glasgow; Edinburgh Tapestry Company; Aberdeen Asset Management; Jamjar Restaurant, Bridge of Allan; Gamba Restaurant, Glasgow; Café Parma, Glasgow.
Awards include:
S.E.D. travelling scholarship 1975, and 1976. Arts Council Award 1979, and 2004. Glasgow Soc. of Women Artist’s Trust Fund Award, Lauder Award; R.G.I., N.S. Macfarlane Award; Alexander Graham Munro prize, RSW