Connie Simmers
ARTIST: Connie Simmers (1941-) Scottish
TITLE: “Tuscan Landscape”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on board
SIZE: 68cm x 58cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: Artist in oil and gouache, born and lived in Glasgow, who attended the School of Art there as a non-degree student, 1981–3. She was elected an artist-member of Glasgow Society of Women Artists, 1983 (she won its Scottish Amicable Award, 1994); Glasgow Art Club, 1987; and SSWA, 1989. Later awards included Visual Arts Scotland, Morton Fraser Award, 2002, and Scottish Arts Club Award/RSW, 2005. Held a number of council appointments, including Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1983–9. Group exhibitions included RSA; Sotheby’s, Glasgow, from 1984; Barclay Lennie Fine Art, Glasgow, from 1987; William Hardie, 1992; Green Gallery, Aberfoyle, 1994; and City Gallery, 1995. Had solo exhibitions at Flying Colours, Edinburgh, from 1989, and Macaulay Gallery, Stenton, from 1991.Ainscough Contemporary Art, Castlegate House Gallery in Cockermouth and Kingfisher Gallery in Edinburgh, all 1997, were followed by one at The Gallery in Cork Street in 2005, comprising pictures done at home and abroad.
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