Elaine Speirs
Elaine Speirs was born in Johannesburg and moved to the West Coast of Scotland as a young child. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She returned to South Africa in 2006 returning to Scotland in 2009 with her three daughters. Over the last four years Elaine has re-established herself as a painter. Her children and their friends are her inspiration. She is absorbed in their lives and she constantly observes them. The uncertainties of her own childhood have given her the freedom to dig deeper into the complications and mystery of being a child. She conveys the fragility of childhood, the transition between girlhood and womanhood. She regularly exhibits at the RSA, with VAS and the SSA. Recently she exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London. Awards have included the Glasgow Club Award (2012), the Caron Keating Memorial Award, Mall Galleries, London. She was shortlisted for the National Open Art Competition and the Threadneedle Painting Prize (2014)
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- Briony Anderson
- Caroline Bailey RSW
- Jillian Bain Christie
- Rosanne Barr
- Fraser Beaton
- Margaretann Bennett RSW
- George Birrell
- Francis Boag
- Kim Bramley SGS CGS
- Kathleen Bremner
- Davy Brown
- Ruth Brownlee
- Dorothy Bruce
- Stuart Buchanan
- Patricia Cain RGI
- Grace Cameron
- Catriona Campbell
- Kim Canale
- Lois Carson
- Pam Carter
- Sam Cartman
- Karen Castle-Anderson
- Malcolm Cheape
- Kirstie Cohen
- Deborah Cruden
- Peter Davis
- Emma S Davis RSW
- Lisette Degioanni
- Carol Dewart
- Alison Dunlop RSW
- Peter Dworok
- Sandra Emslie
- Margaret Evans
- John Glynn
- Peter Goodfellow
- Alan Hayman
- Douglas Heggie
- Steven Higginson
- Jonathan Hood
- Catherine Imhof-Cardinal
- Frances Innes
- Anita Inverarity
- Elin Isaksson
- David Johnston RSW
- Kittie Jones
- Fi Knox
- Steven Lindsay
- Michael Lythgoe
- Sam MacDonald
- Jennifer Mackenzie
- Angela Macleod
- Genevieve Marsh-Feiley
- Robert McAulay
- Alan McGowan
- Lynn McGregor RSW
- Alastair McKenzie
- Lesley D McKenzie
- Phil McLoughlin SSA
- Janet Melrose RSW
- Liz Milne
- Vivien Moir
- Illona Morrice
- Amanda Phillips
- John Paul Raine
- Clive Ramage
- Ian Rawnsley
- Maralyn Reed-Wood
- Ronnie Russell
- Maryann Ryves
- Patricia Shone
- Amanda Simmons
- Ian Smart
- Joe Smernicki
- David Smith RSW
- Sian Smith
- Elaine Speirs
- Mairi Stewart
- Fiona Sturrock
- Nerine Tassie
- Tricia Thom
- Fiona Thomson
- Marion Thomson
- Jenny Watt-Colbeck
- Ann Wegmuller RSW RWS
- Allison Weightman
- Peter White
- Gordon Wilson
- Georgie Young