Ann Oram, featured here with her beloved Stanley, and her friend and artist Jenny Matthews, are showing together an exhibition of flower paintings during the Edinburgh Festival period. The Edinburgh Reporter commented: “Two of Scotland’s leading painters have created a ‘flower-filled oasis of calm’ in Edinburgh, offering visitors a moment’s peace away from the crowds.”
Studying at Edinburgh College of Art, just a few years apart, both artists were taught by leading Scottish artist Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, DBE, RA, RSA, Elizabeth Blackadder, who sadly passed away a year ago, and paid tribute to her as an artist and teacher.