Sheila Mullen was born in Glasgow in 1942 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1960-64. After recovering from MS, she and her family moved to Dumfriesshire where for the last 40 years, Ms Mullen has devoted her life to representing, in large lyrical oils, the magical landscape of the Kinnel Valley near her remote Annandale farmhouse studio, depicting the area’s rich folklore and poetic traditions. As with her predecessor Joan Eardley, Ms Mullen paints outdoors in all weather whilst her thickly impasto oils convey her intimate relationship with her locality. She has permanent collections in Leeds Art Gallery and the Duke of Buccleuch among others.

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Painters and Poets: Andrew Brown introduces Sheila Mullen whose fascination with border ballads and contemporary poetry inspires her evocative expressive paintings. Sheis accompanied by readings of their poems by Aonghas MacNeacail and Katy Ewing and Gerda Stevenson reads from her most recent book. (2019)