MAS - Researching and Teaching Drawing and Painting

FOUNDING TUTORS

Cynthia Bowles

Cynthia Bowles teaches drawing, painting and artistic anatomy, using a rigorous skills-based approach supported by practical demonstrations of methods and materials. She received an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art studying with Deane Keller, Jon De Martin and Frank Porcu. Their generosity inspired her to share these skills.

Teaching at the Glasgow School of Art, she has given workshops for the Scottish Arts Club, the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, and the plastic surgeons of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Recipient of the NYAA Merit Scholarship, Posey Scholar 2002-03 she has participated in exhibitions in New Zealand, New York and Scotland.


Martin McInally

Martin McInally trained at St. Martins School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art McInally has exhibited in Holland, Cairo, Mauritius and Scotland and has work in various private collections in, Africa, America, Australia and across Europe.

McInally has a breadth of teaching experience including The American University in Cairo, The Mahatma Ghandi Institute in Mauritius, Strathclyde University, Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art.

He is currently also involved in two architectural projects including a collaborative project.


Nichol Wheatley

Nichol Wheatley is a Scottish Artist mainly concerned with painting. To this end he has spent 10 years working on his project PERFECT CIRCLE ART a fine art studio designed to work to order for designers, architects and other clients. The purpose of this was to fund and push forward Nichol Wheatley's studies and researches in painting.  Nichol Wheatley's own work is figurative and he cites major influences as Rembrandt and Whistler.

Wheatley has played a significant role in helping the famous Scottish author and artist, Alasdair Gray in his cycle of murals at Oran Mor, mainly through Perfect Circle.  He has written about Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and contributed to a television program about his later life. He lectures on Rembrandt and Whistler.  Wheatley has tutored several well known Scottish Artists and has taught at the Glasgow School of Art, mainly in the continuing education department.