Michael Waight

Michael Waight

Waight is a former Peacock Visual Arts’ master printmaker and has spent the past twenty-odd years collaborating with dozens of celebrated artists; Ralph Steadman, Barbara Rae, Frances Walker and Donald Urquhart are among them.  Alongside this he has maintained...
Arthur Watson

Arthur Watson

b. 1951 Trained at Gray’s School of Art in Printmaking and Printed Textiles and went on to become a founding member of Peacock Printmakers (now Peacock Visual Arts). Working usually in print-based media and three-dimensional installation, Watson is interested in the...
Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson

b. 1940 Educated Glasgow School of Art 1960-64 Working primarily in the mediums of paint, print and photography, Wilson’s work has developed from abstract images to figurative and representational paintings based on events and experiences from his life.  His...
Sylvia Wishart

Sylvia Wishart

  1936 – 2008 Born and raised in Stromness, Orkney, Wishart left school and began working in a post office before being convinced to study at Gray’s School of Art as a mature student. Wishart has been hailed as one of Scotland’s finest contemporary landscape...

Roy Wood

Born in London, Roy Wood studied printmaking at the Royal College of Art.  In 1967 he co-founded Edinburgh Printmakers and went on to teach at Edinburgh College of Art for thirty years.  Working in the mediums of drawing, painting and printmaking, Wood cites among his...
Frances Walker

Frances Walker

Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930, she studied at Edinburgh College of Art and then took up a post as visiting teacher of art in the Western Isles in 1956. This experience reinforced her life long love of wild and desolate places and her desire to depict isolated panoramas...