* IRENE HALLIDAY RSW (SCOTTISH b. 1931),
NIGHT FISHING
mixed media on paper, titled label verso
image size 49cm x 24cm, overall size 63cm x 38cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Artist's label verso.
Note: Irene May Halliday was born in Kingsmuir, Scotland and attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee between 1948 and 1953, studying under Alberto Morrocco. From 1956-1979 she worked at Didsury College of Education becoming Head of Art and Design. She spent an academic year as visiting Professor at State University College, Buffalo, New York State from 1972 to 1973. She left full-time teaching at Manchester Polytechnic in 1979 but continued to teach summer schools in Alston, Hull, Lancashire and Harrogate. Irene Halliday was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 1955, she has exhibited at the Royal Academy (London), the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and elsewhere. She had several dozen solo exhibitions in England, Scotland and America. Public galleries in Edinburgh, Bolton, Dundee, Salford and elsewhere hold examples. She never moved far from "Scottish painting" and in 2002 returned to live in Arbroath inspired by the sea coast, harbours and land around her home.