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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. |

Nadine Gordimer
oil on board
94 x 62cm
SOLD
oil on board
94 x 62cm
SOLD

Lady Lazarus
mixed media
112 x 65cm
available
mixed media
112 x 65cm
available

Mother and Child
drawing
102.5 x 45.5cm
available
drawing
102.5 x 45.5cm
available

Startled Hare
screenprint, 2008
42 x 30cm
available
screenprint, 2008
42 x 30cm
available

Still Life
oil on board
60.5 x 25cm
£750
oil on board
60.5 x 25cm
£750

Twa Corbies
oil on board
60.5 x 30.5cm
SOLD
oil on board
60.5 x 30.5cm
SOLD

Woman in Blue
oil on paper
33 x 24cm
SOLD
oil on paper
33 x 24cm
SOLD

Woman in Yellow
oil on board
36 x 24cm
SOLD
oil on board
36 x 24cm
SOLD

Woman in Lilac
oil on board
47 x 40cm
SOLD
oil on board
47 x 40cm
SOLD

Embrace
oil on board
130 x 82cm
SOLD
oil on board
130 x 82cm
SOLD

Enduring Beauty
oil on board
121 x 82cm
available
oil on board
121 x 82cm
available

Love's Ambivalences
oil on board
106 x 79cm
SOLD
oil on board
106 x 79cm
SOLD

Mirror Image
oil on board
108 x 80cm
SOLD
oil on board
108 x 80cm
SOLD

Mother and Child
screenprint, 2005, artist's proof
64 x 43cm
£600
screenprint, 2005, artist's proof
64 x 43cm
£600

Mountain Hare
screenprint, 2008
38 x 18cm
SOLD
screenprint, 2008
38 x 18cm
SOLD

P-otter-ing
screenprint, artist's proof
48 x 34cm
SOLD
screenprint, artist's proof
48 x 34cm
SOLD

Self Portrait as Faustus
etching, 2000, 2/2
25 x 18cm
SOLD
etching, 2000, 2/2
25 x 18cm
SOLD

Swallows
screenprint, 2009, 3/8
64 x 43cm
£600
screenprint, 2009, 3/8
64 x 43cm
£600

Reclining Figure
screenprint, 2011, 1/2
44 x 74cm
SOLD
screenprint, 2011, 1/2
44 x 74cm
SOLD