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Catriona Millar (born 1956) is one of Scotland's foremost figurative painters. Born in 
"Up close the viewer is tempted to reach out and touch the canvas, so packed is it with paint. While this might be seen as simply a preferred painting technique, the depth of character and subtle nuances of narrative that Catriona Millar achieves is what sets her figurative work apart from anything else you’ll see." – Homes & Interiors Magazine
Catriona Millar is married to the Scottish columnist and Arts Critic Roddy Phillips.
Artist's website
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Milngavie
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, Glasgow, she studied at Harrogate School of Art and Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, where her tutors included Joyce Cairns RSA and Keith Grant. Since the success of her sell-out 2005 degree show she has achieved an international reputation and exhibited across the UK and Europe including the Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country's national academy of art. It promotes contemporary art, contemporary Scottish art.
The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy ...
, Edinburgh
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. Her works are in both private and public collections. In October 2006 she came to the attention of Charles Saatchi
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with her first solo exhibition at the Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. In April 2007 '' The Herald'' ranked her in the top five most collectable artists in Scotland. In 2012 Catriona Millar was listed in 'Who's Who in Scotland'. Her paintings can be seen on book jackets and CD covers while many schools and colleges around the world study her work. Catriona Millar works with several charities including, Art on a Postcard, St Columba's Hospice Care, Edinburgh and Mental Health Aberdeen,
"Like many Scottish painters Catriona Millar is a true colourist. Colour and pattern define her work but beneath the surface they portray the full spectrum of the human condition – joy, hope, longing and melancholy and often alongside an animal companion." - Elspeth Bray, former V&A curator, Deputy Editor of the Apollo Magazine.
"Up close the viewer is tempted to reach out and touch the canvas, so packed is it with paint. While this might be seen as simply a preferred painting technique, the depth of character and subtle nuances of narrative that Catriona Millar achieves is what sets her figurative work apart from anything else you’ll see." – Homes & Interiors Magazine
Catriona Millar is married to the Scottish columnist and Arts Critic Roddy Phillips.
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Artist's website
http://www.roddyphillips.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Millar, Catriona 1956 births Living people 20th-century Scottish painters 21st-century Scottish painters 21st-century Scottish women artists Alumni of Gray's School of Art Artists from Glasgow 20th-century Scottish women painters 21st-century British women painters