About us
Our Committee are all volunteers who give up their time to run, publicise and hang artwork for the Society of Caithness Artists annual exhibition.
Ian Pearson
Chairman
Ian has been a member of the Society for nearly forty years and its Chair for the last ten. He was encouraged to join by Henrietta Munro who as Secretary was regularly active within the Society and owned the “Ships Wheel” antique shop in Thurso which is now the Bydand restaurant.
Don Clarke
Vice Chairman
My inspiration comes from the landscape but rarely the grand vista. More often it is the easily passed over, the transitory private moments, the fragment glimpsed in peripheral vision
Jean Mackay
Treasurer
Elizabeth Lay
Secretary
Jackie Newton
Committee Member
Penny Irvine
Committee Member
I am a professional artist specialising in fibre art but I also draw, paint and do digital art. I live in Thurso on Scotland’s rugged North Coast with my husband, our 2 sons and our Border Collie Luna. I believe we need to move away from the elitism of the art world as many people see artists as unapproachable and fine art as unaffordable. In my opinion art should be accessible to everyone so I create art to suite every budget and no matter the question please feel free to contact me at any time.
Elaine Rapson Grant
Committee Member
With her love of nature and all creatures wild, it is no surprise then that she loves painting wildlife and, in particular, kingfishers, butterflies, foxes, puffins, highland cows and hares. Her preferred medium is either watercolours or acrylics and Rapson-Grant is not afraid of experimenting with new painting techniques either.
William Wallace
Committee Member
williambwallacecollection.co.uk
William B Wallace graduated with BA (Hons) in fine art Drawing & Painting from Gray’s School of Art in 1990. Tutored under William Connon, Sandy Fraser and Joyce W Cairns. During his Art Collage years, he was influenced by the works of Willie Gillies, William Littlejohn, The Scottish Colourists & Cubism, especially Braque.
Euan Ferrier
Committee Member
I have been drawing since I was a young child on and off and always had an interest in art of any form. My interest to put more time into art was sparked again on the streets of Rosarito in Mexico back in 2006 when I first saw a live street artist producing amazing spray paint art right there on the pavement.
Valerie Barker
Committee Member
valerieinscotlandartist@gmail.com
Becoming an artist was a childhood dream. Valerie was always drawing.
Training at Goldsmiths, not as an artist as she would have loved, but as a geographer and geologist, led to a teaching career. Cartography, botanical illustration, quilting and embroidery have paralleled teaching and lecturing and been stepping stones to textile art. Her dream is coming true.