Title: Temple of the Rising Sun
Size: 17 x 16 inches
Medium: Oil on Board

Price: POA

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About the Artist


Carolynda Macdonald

1957 - Born in Hannover, Germany

1979 - University of Stirling, BSc Hon. Biology

1985 - Fellowship of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, with The Special Examination in Bacteriology, Paddington College of Technology, London

1982-2014 - Part-time courses in Life Drawing and Screen Printing, Chichester, London, Falmouth & Dundee

1982-97 - Biomedical Scientist in Microbiology, holding a senior post at University College Hospital in London from 1989-97

1992-1996 - Part-time courses in Stained Glass Techniques, London

1997-2003 - Ran own business as a stained glass artist in London, working to commission and for exhibitions in London, Ashbourne and St. Andrews

2003-present - Living and working as a painter in Carnoustie, Scotland.

Exhibitions and Commissions

1991 - Commissioned to do large oil painting, which hangs in the waiting room of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

1999 - Bruton Street Gallery, Mayfair, London, Summer Exhibition

2000 - Ashbourne Gallery, British Contemporary Glass Society Show

2004 - St. Andrew's Museum Cathedral Project, 'Pilgrims Exhibition'

2005 - St Andrews Bay Hotel, Celebration of Art, fundraising art auction for High School of Dundee Patrons' Association

2006-10 - Eduardo Alessandro Studios, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, and at the Glasgow Art Fair and the Affordable Art Fair, London

2012-13 - Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 'Scottish Art'

2016 - W. Gordon Smith Award Exhibition, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Spring Exhibition

2018 - Tatha Gallery, Newport, Fife. Winter Show
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Christmas Show

2019 - Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Summer Show

Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture, Edinburgh, 193rd Annual & Open Exhibition

Featured artist in ‘Birds of A Feather’, Stone Sparrow NYC,Greenwich village, New York

2020 - Stone Sparrow NYC, group show of women artists, ‘The Unseen’

November: ‘Parallel Universe’, Stone Sparrow NYC

December: Fidra Fine Art, Gullane, East Lothian, Winter Show

2021 - Talon Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA: ‘Ascent

Stone Sparrow NYC, group show, “Beautiful Things”

 KP Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA: Sanctum

2022                    Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, USA, 'Birds in Art 2022’, 10/9-27/11/22

Fidra Fine Art, E. Lothian, Scotland, 10/9-30/10/22, ‘Inspired’                                           

Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Symbiosis6-27/11/22

Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 5/11-3/12/22 hosting the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine International Art Exhibition ‘Halcyon Days’

2023                    Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, hosting the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine International Art Exhibition’ Secret Longings’ 11/3-15/4/23

Publications

2016 - The Times, Scottish Edition, January 18th 2016 by Giles Sutherland, Gordon Smith Painting Competition, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh

Scotland on Sunday, January 10th 2016, by Susan Mansfield, Gordon Smith Award seeks to champion neglected art of painting.

2020 - American Art Collector Magazine, issue 179, September 2020, p. 60-62 Collector’s Focus: Landscapes

American Art Collector Magazine, issue 182, December 2020, p. 78-79

Upcoming Show Preview for Stone Sparrow NYC 11/18-12/24:                                            Carolynda Macdonald Birds of Paradise

2021 - Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue 33, June 2021 p. 22-31 Alan & Carolynda Macdonald Artist+Artist