User:Jane Cartney/Jane Cartney

Jane Isabella Thomson Scroggie-Cartney (born 13 December 1951) is a contemporary Scottish painter and singer http://www.janecartneyfineart.co.uk

Early Life
Cartney was born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire in 1951. Her father, George Scroggie,1920-1999, from Aberdeen, served in air sea rescue in the Royal Air Force during World War 2. George Scroggie was a graduate of Aberdeen University and a teacher. Her mother Helen (Ellie), 1921-2000, from Stoneywood near Aberdeen, served in signals in the Royal Air Force during the war, and later studied at St Andrew's University until her marriage. She subsequently pursued a career in teaching. Cartney is the younger of two children and has a brother John, an air-traffic controller. She is a first cousin of Duncan Rice.



Development
Following a move to London in 1970 to pursue a career as an artist, Cartney found it difficult to devote time to painting while working to support herself and to fund further studies. In the intervening years she has devoted much of her time pursuing her other career as a musician.

In 2006 Cartney began to paint full-time and has been invited to show her work in the UK and abroad.

Her paintings have been described as fauvist and expressionist and likened to the art of Van Gogh and the architecture of Gaudi.http://www.londonart.co.uk/sales/artistofthwk.asp?ArtistID=5975

Career
Cartney currently maintains a studio in Weston-super-Mare where she paints, and where she also trains and coaches singers

Personal life
Cartney lives with her Scottish husband Michael in Weston-super-Mare