Untitled

Artist Bet Low (Gourock, Scotland, 1924 - 2007)

Date1962

Mediumgouache on paper

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsPaper Size: 51 x 61.6cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2009 by Cordelia Oliver.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG006670

About MeBet Low was born in Gourock and studied at Glasgow School of Art alongside Ian Hamilton Finlay during the Second World. She attended Jordanhill Teacher Training College and later worked as an art therapist. She co-founded, along with John Taylor, the influential New Charing Cross Gallery in Glasgow. Many of her watercolours have a beguiling, almost mystical quality, which reflects her training in teaching and art therapy.

At Greenock Academy Low displayed a talent for landscape work and in 1942 went to the Glasgow College of Art and attended Hospitalfied College of Art, Arbroath. She exhibited her watercolours at the New Art Club, founded by J.D. Ferguson, who was a championof her art. Low had a home on Hoy and, there drew inspiration from the Orcadian sea and landscape. She is today particularly admired for her ethereal dreamlike watercolours which border between landscape and abstraction, such as this work.