Thomas Carlyle House, Comley Bank, Edinburgh, 1982

<p>Carola Gordon (b.1940) is an Edinburgh based artist, producing drawings and paintings of Edinburgh aspects, allotments and interior views. She was was born in Lucknow in India in 1940 and was educated between 1948 and 1961 at school and university in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where she graduated in English and Fine Art. After gaining her master’s degree from New Hall College, Cambridge in 1963, she studied fine art at Edinburgh College of Art from 1963-1965. Gordon went onto teach in the fine art department at the University of Natal, South Africa before moving to Edinburgh in 1977. She is a multidisciplinary artist who works in oil, watercolour, printmaking and collage. Her work is held in private collections in Scotland, England, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany and South Africa and her awards include the Lily MacDougall Award and Martin and Frost Award. Public collections include the City Art Centre in Edinburgh, the New Hall in Cambridge and Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburgh, South Africa.</p>