1931 Born Falkirk, Scotland
1949-54 Studied Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, MA Hons Fine Art
1961 Elected Member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours
1962 Guthrie Award, Royal Scottish Academy
1962-86 Lecturer in drawing and painting, Edinburgh College of Art
1972 Elected Member of The Royal Scottish Academy
1976 Elected Member of The Royal Academy
1982 Awarded O.B.E.
1985 First visit to Japan
1988 Watercolour Foundation joint winner Royal Academy
2001 Appointed Her Majesty?s Painter and Limner in Scotland
2003 Awarded D.B.E.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1961-1998 The Scottish Gallery, Aitken Dott, Edinburgh
1965-1999 Mercury Gallery, London
1982 Theo Waddington Gallery, Toronto
1983, 86 Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York
1990 Abbot Hall, Kendal
1999 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2000 Joined Browse & Darby, London
2001 University of Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery, Festival Exhibition
2002, 04, 06, 2010 Browse & Darby, London
Public collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery; Paisley Art Gallery; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Perth Museum and Art Gallery; Bolton Central Museum and Art Gallery; Reading Museum and Art Gallery; Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery; Robert Fleming Holdings; Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery; Royal Bank of Scotland; Dundee Museum and Art Gallery; Royal Edinburgh Hospital; Edinburgh City Art Centre; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery; Scottish Arts Council; Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Government Art Collection; Scottish National Portrait Gallery; Hove Museum and Art Gallery; Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery; Huddersfield Art Gallery; Tate Gallery, London; Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery; University of Cambridge, Kettles Yard; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; University of Edinburgh; Middlesbrough Art Gallery; University of Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery; Museum of Modern Art, New York; University of St Andrews; National Museum of Women in the Arts, University of Stirling; Washington DC; West Riding County Museum; National Portrait Gallery, London; Wustun Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
