Maclaurin Art Gallery in Ayr is showing a retrospective of Liz Mackay DA’s work. Liz attended Glasgow School of Art from 1956 to 1959. Her contemporaries included Marj Bond and Alasdair Taylor and she was particularly influenced by the GSA’s David Donaldson RSA RGI RSW RP, who favoured an instinctive approach to painting.

Working in still life, landscape and portraiture as well as producing illustrations for children’s books, she exhibited regularly at Edinburgh’s Torrance Gallery and Galleri Pictor in Gothenburg, Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s as well as being a member of Glasgow Women Artists.

After a stroke at the age of 57 she adopted a looser style and, unable to go out into the Alloway countryside with the Isle of Arran beyond, painted them from memory.

Also showing is Ayr Photographic Society Annual Exhibition, featuring work at all skill levels by members of one of Scotland’s oldest camera clubs.