Opening reception is on Friday, November 5 7 pm-9:30 pm.
Christine McArthur was born in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow in 1953 and studied at The Glasgow School of Art between 1971 and 1976. After graduating she taught and produced book illustrations until the demand for her work enabled her to paint full time. Her early work was primarily in oil and she became well known for her large scale still life paintings on canvas. In the late 1980s she began to work in oil pastel and watercolor but more recently she has reverted to oil, as well as acrylic and collage.
Christine McArthur was awarded Scottish Education Department traveling scholarships in 1975 and 1976 and was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1990. In 1995 she was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. In 1997 John Lewis commissioned four large murals – each 6ft x 15ft - for the Glasgow store in 1999. In 2002 she received a commission from John Lewis for murals for the extension to their Peter Jones, Sloane Square, London.

Hans, may you always have quails eggs. 2003	Balancing act. 2003
Winter pots II. 2003

Solo Exhibitions
1984 Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington
1986 Sue Rankin Gallery, London
1990 Fine Art Society, Glasgow
Sue Rankin Gallery, London
1992 Portland Gallery, London
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
1993 Ancrum Gallery, Roxburgh
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1994 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
1995 Thackeray Gallery, London
1996 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
John Martin of London, Summer Show
1997 Courtyard Gallery, Crail
1998 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
John Martin of London, Summer Show
1999 Solo Show, John Martin of London
2000 Solo Show, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2001 Solo Show, John Martin of London
Solo Show, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2002 Solo Show, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2003 John Martin Gallery, London

Awards
Arts Council Award,
Glasgow Soc. of Women Artist’s Trust Fund Award,
Lauder Award
R.G.I.,
N.S. Macfarlane Award,
Alexander Graham Munro prize, RSW

Collections
Lord Irvine of Lairg,
Scottish Arts Council,
Arthur Anderson,
Scottish Nuclear PLC,
University of Strathclyde,
Amerada Hess Corporation,
Craig Capital Corporation,
Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie,
Argyll Group PLC,
United Distillers PLC,
Clydesdale Bank PLC,
Macfarlane Group (Clansman) PLC,
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC,
Export & Import Bank of Japan,
John Lewis Partnership plc (Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh & Peter Jones, London),
Gertsev Gallery, Moscow