Mardi Barrie, 1930-2004

Born in Kirkcaldy and trained at Edinburgh College of Art, Barrie became a teacher at Broughton High School in Edinburgh. She painted mainly landscapes and interiors in oils, with an emphasis on loose, expressive brushstrokes and harmonious colour, leaning towards abstraction but rarely becoming fully abstract. Following two solo exhibitions with the Douglas and Foulis Gallery in Edinburgh in the 1960s, she went on to exhibit regularly with the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and the Bruton Gallery in Somerset. In the 1980s, she had three solo exhibitions at the Thackeray Gallery in London.