Artist working in mixed media who studied at Glasgow School of Art and Washington Art Centre. She was a member of Glasgow Women’s Art Society and the Paisley Art Institute, where she won the William Bowie Award in 2001. For many years she showed with the RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, also with the Wren Gallery, Burford, and held regular exhibitions at Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh. Her work was held by private collections in Scotland, England and America. Critics referred to Foote Watts as a Romantic Colourist. She enjoyed painting the Clyde valley, also the Scottish islands and on the continent. Wren Gallery gave her a memorial show in 2003.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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