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Biography
Born in West Calder, West Lothian Margaret Hislop (nee Grant) trained at the Westminster School of Art and the Edinburgh College of Art from which she graduated in 1916. She later married the artist, Andrew Healey Hislop, and they travelled extensively in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Egypt and Canada. Throughout her career, Hislop frequently exhibited still lifes at the Royal Scottish Academy. There were similarities in her style and that of Anne Redpath who was a close friend and, for a time, neighbour when both lived in the eastern end of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town at London Street. Hislop however gravitated to a more vibrant use of colour whereas Redpath cultivated a flat, often chalky finish particularly in the best of her still lifes. Her work is to be found in a number of Scottish galleries and in the US and Australia. |
