Both Avril's father,
Hugh and her Grandfather Donald were Scottish landscape painters. They lived and
worked on the Isle of Arran the southern most island of the Scottish Western Isles:
Avril spent her childhood there.
Attending
Glasgow School of Art in the late Fifties, she returned to Arran in the early
sixties and remained there until 1982. Since then she has lived and worked in
Glasgow during which time she has seven solo exhibitions.
In
1994 she completed "Windows in the West" which Glasgow Museums purchased
the following week. Hung in the City's newly opened "Gallery of Modern Art",
the painting quickly established itself as the Gallery's most visited exhibit;
Prints of this work are in constant demand.
