Background
Born in Edinburgh in 1947, Cairns was brought up in North East Scotland, where her father was a school master.
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Joyce Cairns
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In 1966, she went to Gray"s School of Art in Aberdeen where she studied until 1970.
Career
She then took a Master of Art at the Royal College of Art in London from 1971 to 1974. This was followed by a fellowship at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design in Cheltenham. She went on to undertake a further period of study at Goldsmith’s College before returning to Aberdeen in 1976 to take up a teaching post at Gray’s School of Artist
On returning to Aberdeen, she moved into the small fishing village of Footdee at the mouth of the harbour in Aberdeen.
With small houses facing on to a square, the village is flanked on one side by the industrial harbour of Aberdeen, and the large boats that pass by the house often appear in her paintings. In 1985, she was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy and from 1985 to 1988 she served as the first female president of the Aberdeen Artist’s Society.
Cairns took early retirement from teaching in 2004 to focus completely on painting. She now lives in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee.
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