Joan Eardley was born in Sussex. She studied at Goldsmith's and Glasgow School of Art 1940-3 and in 1947 at Hospitalfield under James Cowie. A Post-Diploma at Glasgow in 1948 was followed by travel in Italy and France. From 1950's Eardley's output divides between work depicting the townscape and children of depressed urban Glasgow from her studio in Townhead and powerful landscapes and seascapes from her cottage at Catterline, in Kincardineshire. She died tragically young.

The Scottish Gallery is to a host an Eardley Exhibition in 2013 to celebrate the publication of a new Joan Eardley monograph. If you have any works by Eardley that you would be interested in selling, or indeed showing to the author to include in his book please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)