Wow! What an exhibition. While born in Sussex I think we claim JE as Scottish as her mother was Scottish, she studied at Glasgow School of Art and she spent most of her life in Scotland between Glasgow and Catterline.
Points of interest for me: number of women friends mentioned: Annette Stephens, Audrey Walker and Dorothy Steel.
When she won a scholarship for Italy she shared a room in Venice with two old ladies.
During WWII she worked as a joiner painting camouflage on hulls of boats.
She often wore an ex-RAF flying suit and clumpy boots – this wasn’t during the war but when she was in Catterline.
As for her work there were chalk sketches, photographs and paintings –some of them huge oil paintings of seascapes. While there are a number of paintings of children of Glasgow tenements which are stunning, my favourites were the landscapes. I particularly liked Catterline Winter, Summer Fields and Birds in Field.
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