Joyce Gunn Cairns

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Love Is

oil on board

120 x 90cm

£1950

Past Lives

oil on board

120 x 80cm

£1950

Small Angel

oil on board

50 x 40cm

SOLD

Still Life with Jug

oil on board

32.5 x 45cm

SOLD

Flying Owl

oil on board

28.5 x 21cm

£550

White Cat

oil on board

41 x 39.5cm

SOLD

Dolly

oil on board

53 x 24cm

SOLD

Pecking Order / Free Range

oil on paper

39 x 58cm

SOLD

The Food Chain

oil on board

60 x 41cm

SOLD

Sitting Crow

oil on board

33 x 28cm

SOLD

Robin

oil on paper

28 x 19.5cm

£425

Barn Owl

graphite and coloured pencil

28 x 17cm

£250

Brown Hare

pencil drawing

34 x 13cm

£250

Ahimsa

oil on board

92 x 122.5cm

SOLD

Barn Owl

screenprint, 2008, 10/10

55 x 35cm

available

Animate Inanimate

oil on board

53.5 x 73.5cm

SOLD

Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE trained in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, having previously completed a degree in German and Comparative Religion at Aberdeen University. She has become one of Scotland’s most cherished artists, with nine works in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, five works in the permanent collection of the City Art Centre, and works in other major collections including Balliol College, Oxford and Jesus College, Cambridge.

Drawing on her deep sensitivity and appreciation of literature, at the core of Gunn Cairns’ practice is expressive figurative work, including portraits and wildlife studies. From some of Scotland’s most eminent cultural figures to an otter or a dormouse, whatever the subject, Gunn Cairns draws them with the same delicacy of perception and appreciation.

Her work has been well reviewed across the board, including by Duncan MacMillan, who commented: "Joyce Gunn Cairns' remarkable paintings ... demonstrate how many different kinds of visual truths there are ;..... in these graphic and unflinching images, she not only manages that sense of reaching out to touch; she conveys how, from inwards, we feel outward; what it is like to be in one's own skin..." Duncan MacMillan, The Scotsman, Feb 2011

She was awarded MBE for services to the arts in the June 2004 Queen's Honours List.