Artist Mairi Aitken

Up Memory Lane

Mairi Aitken

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Media Acrylic
Type Landscape/Seascape
Price £1250.00 / $1579.58
Size 72 x 92 cm
Ref 19116

Light at the Start of the Tunnel

Mairi Aitken

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Media Acrylic
Type Landscape/Seascape
Price £1400.00 / $1769.13
Size 73 x 94 cm
Ref 19259

Harbour, Kirkcudbright

Mairi Aitken

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Media Acrylic
Type Landscape/Seascape
Price £1275.00 / $1611.17
Size 77 x 97 cm
Ref 17344

Mairi Aitken graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Drawing and Painting. She has taught art in both England and Scotland. Being an artist member of The Glasgow Society of Women Artists and The Paisley Art Institute, she exhibits regularly with both organizations. She is also a past president of The Glasgow Society of Women Artists.

Her work has been acquired by schools, councils, The Royal Bank of Scotland and is in private collections throughout the U.K., Europe and the U.S.Mairi’s arttwork is mostly figurative, based largely on scenes recorded whilst holidaying abroad, with particular emphasis on strong light, shade and people going about their everyday lives. Although Mairi is happy with all forms of media, she concentrates mainly on acrylic at present.

EXHIBITIONS---MIXED

Arteries Gallery, Glasgow

Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow

Blackheath Gallery, London

Broadway Modern, Cotswolds

Cairns Gallery, Peebles

Fotheringham Gallery, Bridge of Allan

Green Gallery, Aberfoyle

G.S.W.A.Jerdan Gallery, Crail

Laing’s Art Exhibitions

Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie

Maclaurin Galleries, Ayr

Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh

Panik Gallery, Killearn

P.A.I.R.G.I. and R.G.I. Kelly Gallery

Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey

Rowan Gallery, Drymen and Helensburgh

Scotlandart.com in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Stenton Art Gallery E. Lothian

Lemond Gallery, Glasgow Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeen

Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh

The Wren Gallery, Burford, Oxon.

EXHIBITIONS---SMALL GROUP

Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld

Broadway Modern, Cotswolds

Fotheringham Gallery, Bridge of Allan

Green Gallery, Aberfoyle

Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie

Margin Gallery, Hamilton

Panik Gallery, Killearn

Portfolio Shows with The Glasgow Group

R.G.I. Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

Stenton Art Gallery, East Lothian

Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh

EXHIBITIONS- SOLO:

Accord Hospice, Paisley

Aldessan Gallery, Clachan of Campsie

Bishopbriggs Library

Candlemaker Gallery, Edinburgh

R.G.I. Kelly Gallery, Glasgow--2001, 2003, 2005.

ART FAIRS

Glasgow Art Fair

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

Art on Paper Fair, LondonCannes Art Fair.

AWARDS:

1996 --- Strathkelvin Purchase Prize.1997 --- P.A.I. Arnold Clark Prize

1997 --- E. Dunbartonshire Purchase Prize

2000 --- P.A.I. John Green Purchase Prize

2001 --- P.A.I. William Grant & Sons’ Charitable Trust Award

2001 --- P.A.I. 'Small Work' chosen by the public

2004 --- Anne Stevenson Memorial Award