Bet Low was born in Gourock, Scotland on 2 December 1924. She studied at at Glasgow School of Art from 1942 to 1945; the Hospitalfield House Collage of Art in Arbroath in 1945; and at the Jordanhill Training College in Glasgow in 1945-46. She then worked as a set painter. Whilst working on the set for Ena Lamont Stewart's play Men Should Weep in 1947 she met her future husband Tom MacDonald, resident designer of the Unity Theatre in Glasgow. In the 1940s she became a member of the Clyde Group whose avowed aim was to take art to the people.

Together with fellow artist John Taylor, in 1968 Low established the New Charing Cross Gallery [now Compass Gallery] at 494 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow as a venue for exhibiting work by young artists.

Low's early work was influenced by German Expressionism. By the early 1960s the dominant influence on her art was abstraction. In later lifer she lived for part of the year in Orkney where he work was influenced by the island landscape.

She exhibited on several occasions at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh between 1963 and 1990. She also exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; and with the he Society of Scottish Independent Artists, A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow in 1986. She died on 15 December 2007.

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