Mary McMurtrie

MARY McMURTRIE celebrated her hundredth birthday in June this year and we are delighted to mark the occasion with this exhibition. Mary was born in Skene and has spent her life in Aberdeenshire. She was one of the first female students at Gray’s School of Art and, throughout her life, has combined her interest in painting with her love of flowers. For over forty years she ran a nursery at Balbithan, specialising in alpines and old garden flowers. She also has a remarkable knowledge of wild flowers. She has published a number of beautifully illustrated books including Scots Roses (1995) and Scottish Wild Flowers (2001). She always paints directly from life, capturing the essence of her subjects.  She has been described as "one of the best flower painters working today: where lesser illustrators get lost in botanical minutiae she never loses sight of a flower’s whole pictorial appeal". Roger Banks, Scotland on Sunday.

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