MOIRA HUNTLY

RI, RSMA, RWA, PPS

(b. 1932)

ROSEHILL COTTAGE IN NORTH WALES

Watercolour and charcoal, signed

Huntly was a painter, writer and teacher, born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. She spent her early childhood in Northern Spain until the outbreak of the Civil War, when she and her family became refugees. She attended Harrow School of Art under Christopher Sanders, 1948-53, then Hornsey College of Art, 1953-4.

Huntly taught art, 1954-60, then freelanced as a painter. Group shows included Adam Gallery, Bath, Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, New English Art Club, Societé des Pastellistes de France, Paris, Mystic Maritime Museum, Connecticut and Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery, Vancouver. She has also had solo exhibitions at Alresford Gallery in Hampshire. She is a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and Royal West of England Academy, and is currently President of the Pastel Society.

She became "Hunting Group Competition" finalist in 1981, 1983 and 1985, and also in the same year she won the Winsor & Newton Award for the best group of paintings. She was the winner of the "Laing National Painting Competition" in 1986, and in 1999 won the "Buzzacott Prize" at the RI exhibition.

Huntly is also a prolific writer of books on art, and her works include "Imaginative Still Life", "Painting and Drawing Boats" and "Learn to Paint Gouache". She lives near Broadway, Worcestershire.

Literature: Buckman: Artists in Britain since 1945 in Britain since 1945

Ref. No. MB MG 583