Elizabeth Blackadder

Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, DBE, RA, RSA, , , HonRWA, , , , (24 September 1931 – 23 August 2021)[1][2] was a Scottish painter and printmaker.[7] She arrived in Edinburgh in September 1949 to start on the newly approved Fine Art degree and graduated with first class honours in 1954.Blackadder studied early Byzantine art while at university, and one of the most enduring influences on her work was her tutor and prolific painter William Gillies.Blackadder spent the fourth and fifth years of her MA course concentrating on her imminent examinations; it was during this period that she met Scottish artist John Houston who was later to become her husband.[9] In 1954, Blackadder put the money from her Carnegie scholarship towards spending three months travelling through Yugoslavia, Greece, and Italy, where she focused on classical and Byzantine art.[3] First visiting in 1985, and returning the following year, Blackadder's interest in Eastern techniques and subject matter was realised in a series of vibrant oils and watercolours shown at the Mercury Gallery[12] in 1991.
Flowers on an Indian Cloth
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