Irises by the Sea

Artist Margot Sandeman (Glasgow, Scotland, 1922 - 2009)

Date1969

Mediumcharcoal on brown paper

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

Dimensions61.6 x 183.3cm
Frame Size: 64 x 18.6 x 5.9cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2009 by Cordelia Oliver.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG006668

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Boy in a Field, Arran

About MeMargot Sandeman was born in Glasgow in 1922, the daughter of Archibald Sandeman, a self-taught watercolourist and Muriel Boyd, who was an embroiderer who had trained with Jessie Newbery at Glasgow School of Art. Sandeman also studied at Glasgow School of Art but her time there was cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War.

She formed a deep and lasting friendship with the artist Joan Eardley and also Ian Hamilton Finlay, with whom she later collaborated both on publications for the Wild Hawthorn Press and on a series of paintings.

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Glasgow-born Sandeman, a great friend of Joan Eardley, worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II