About Bella
Since 1997 Bella has lived and worked in Dumfriesshire in Southern Scotland, where she has made her home and studio. After many years of teaching and painting she now devotes all of her time to painting apart a couple of weeks a year when she enjoys leading painting and colour workshops at beautiful and sunny places like the Centro d’Arte Verrochhio in Tuscany.
She was born and brought up in Glasgow. After school, she followed her family south and did a two year Foundation Course at Harrow School of Art. She also has a BA(Hons) in Fine Art Painting from Norwich School of Art and an ATD from Leicester University.
| 2011 | Dumfriesshire Delineated, Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries. |
| 2011 | It takes two, Highead Gallery, Cumbria |
| 2011 | Cork Street Open Exhibition, London |
| 2010 | Cork Street Open Exhibition, London (shorlisted) |
| 2010 | Festival Exhibition, Dancing Light Gallery, West Linton, Edinburgh. |
| 2010 | Festival Exhibition, Di Rollo Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2010 | Scottish Contemporaries, Wetpaint Gallery, Cirencester |
| 2009 - 2010 | Summer & Christmas shows Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria |
| 2007 - 2009 | Degrees of Abstraction & January Still , Bridge View Gallery, Aberdeen |
| 2005 - 2009 | Spring & Christmas shows, The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright |
| 1991 - 2010 | Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh |
| 2008 - 2010 | Winter shows, McGill Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas |
| 2007- 2008 | Pittenweem Arts Festival Exhibition |
| 1998 - 2007 | Summer shows, Broughton Gallery,Broughton |
| 2002 - 2010 | Spring Fling Open Studio, Dumfries & Galloway |
| 2004 - 2005 | Scottish art from Galloway, Affordable Art Fair, London |
| 1999 - 2006 | Artists from Dumfries & Galloway, Gracefield Arts Centre, Glasgow Art Fair |
| 2002- 2001 | Imaginings, Little Gallery, Pittenweem, Fife(Solo) |
| 1999 | Circle of Light and Dark, Woodend Barn, Aberdeenshire (Solo) |
| 1995 | An Tairbert Centre, Tarbert Argyll ( Solo) |
| Teaching | |
| 1991 - 2005 | Royal College of Art, London Painting and Visiting tutor - colour & drawing |
| 1991 - present | Centro d’arte Verrocchio, Italy - Visiting tutor - painting summer school |
| 1986 - 1989 | Royal College of Art, London - Lecturer in Computer graphics |
Collections & Commissions
Work in many private collections in UK and world wide. Work in collection of Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries and the Women's Library, Glasgow
Education
BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting - Norwich School of ArtATD - Leicester University
