Artist

I live and work on Sanday, one of the northern isles of Orkney. I’ve been here with my partner, Maz, since 2005 when we moved here from Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast. Here I paint, print and design and make all sorts of stuff and, after 15 years part time at our island school, […]

Bill McArthur attended Edinburgh College of Art (School of Drawing & Painting) and Edinburgh University (Fine Art Department ), graduating in 1963 . He then moved to London where he worked as a Junior Art Director with J. Walter Thompson Advertising before returning to Edinburgh to develop his own successful screen-printing business in the late […]