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Sheila Salmond Neill (7 April 1915 - 30 September 2013) was a Scottish painter.

Life
Her father was William Notman Neill (4 December 1879 - 7 October 1925), a minister from Forfar.

Her mother was Agnes Salmond (28 February 1883 - October 1964) from Arbroath. William and Agnes married in Tongland, near Kirkcudbright, on 13 September 1910.

Sheila Salmond Neill was born on 7 April 1915 in Kames near Muirkirk in Ayrshire.

She married Cyril Scott MacArthur (born 18 April 1914) of Glasgow String Orchestra. They married in 1938 in Glasgow.

They stayed at 12 Ruskin Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow.

Their daughter Frances was born in 1943 in Maryhill. After this the marriage failed.

Sheila remarried Richard Joseph O'Shaughnessy (16 October 1904 - 5 May 1956) from Dublin, Ireland. They married on 17 December 1946 in Hillhead, Glasgow.

Cyril Scott MacArthur remarried in 1947 to Caroline Anne David. He was to play double bass on The Beatles 'A Day in the Life' and on John Lennon's 'Imagine'. From 1959 to 1961 he raced in BNSCC Junior Formula.

Death
She died on 30 September 2013 at Westerton Care Home in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire.