Alice McMurrough PAI RGI RSW: Open Secrets

Alice McMurrough PAI RGI RSW is a Scottish artist whose work is concerned with the connectivity of experience. Ideas, observations and dreams are researched, edited and translated into visual statements. The presence of a dominant female figure is common in her paintings and can become emblematic of a greater purpose: as in the 'Protector' and 'Child of the Knight'. In other works her role is less defined. Often set in spiritual and timeless worlds, the paintings have a curious and bewitching air bound to transport the viewer into the inner depths of their imagination

Alice McMurrough studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1973 to 1978. She then attended St. Andrews College of Education where she graduated with a Diploma in Education in 1979. She has held various teaching posts including Acting Principal Teacher in the 1990s and marker and moderator for the Scottish Qualifications Authority, until she left the profession in 2007. McMurrough has won many awards including the IFAC Award from the Paisley Art Institute in 2018, the Bessie Scott Award from the Paisley Art Institute in 2014 and the Dalrymple Award at the inaugural Maclaurin Annual Fine Art Exhibition in 2013 amongst others. She was elected as a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute, Paisley Art Institute and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 2013. McMurrough is a Diplomate of the Paisley Art Institute, Artist Member of the Glasgow Art Club and Associate Artist Member of Hospitalfield Alumni Association. She exhibits regularly with the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Paisley Art Institute and at galleries throughout the UK. Her works are held in private collections in the UK, Spain, Italy and the USA.