oil on board, signed, titled label verso framed and under glass image size 48cm x 54cm, overall size 69cm x 74cm Artist's label verso Note: Margaret Ballantyne lives and works in Glasgow where she trained at the Glasgow School of Art. She is a professional member of Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen (SAAC), an Artist Member of both the Glasgow Society of Women Artists and the Paisley Art Institute, where she won the Col. Neville Award in 1993. She exhibits regularly at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions. Margaret has had various acclaimed solo and mixed exhibitions throughout Scotland, as well as in London, Bath, and Eton and she exhibits regularly in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (London). She was invited by the International Artist Magazine to contribute an article on her painting and method and her work was also chosen at The Mall Galleries for the Laing 1997 Calendar. In several recent years, the National Trust for Scotland has used her paintings for their Christmas cards. Margaret works in oils and mixed media and enjoys painting still lifes and landscapes at home in her studio and on travels abroad. She paints in the Scottish Colourist tradition.