17th Jul, 2025 10:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
* ENID FOOTE WATTS (SCOTTISH 1924 - 2003)
SOFT GREY EVENING
oil on board, signed and dated 1995, titled label verso
framed and under glass
image size 14cm x 14cm, overall size 32cm x 32cm
Artist's label verso
Note: Enid Foote Watts worked in oil and mixed media. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Washington Art Centre. She was a member of Glasgow Women’s Art Society and the Paisley Art Institute, where she won the William Bowie Award in 2001. For many years she showed with the RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, also with the Wren Gallery, Burford, and held regular exhibitions at Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh. Her work is held by private collections in Scotland, England and America. Critics referred to Foote Watts as a Romantic Colourist. She enjoyed painting the Clyde valley, also the Scottish islands and on the continent. Wren Gallery (Burford, Oxfordshire) gave her a memorial show in 2003.
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