Deirdre Edwards (British, b. 1950)

Deirdre Edwards was born in Shanghai China. She spent much of her childhood in the Far East and the USA. Between 1968 and 1969 she attended Guildford and Farnham Art Schools. She completed a Foundation and Fine Art Course from 1970 to 1973 and attended the Central School of Art, London in 1973. She went on to receive a B.A . in Fine Art Painting, (First Class Honours from 1980 to 1993.)

She has exhibited widely In Gloucestershire, Suffolk and London and in 1994 moved to Edinburgh, Scotland. Exhibitions of her work include: Watercolours, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2004, Solo Exhibition, The AIR Gallery, London, 2004, Solo Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2003, Land and Sea, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2001
Solo Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, 1999, Solo Exhibition, Dundas Street Gallery with Bourne Fine Art, 1997, Solo Exhibition, The RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, 1996,
Solo Exhibition, Atelier, Edinburgh Festival, 1993-2005. Mixed Exhibitions include: Three Artists, Atelier, Edinburgh Festival, Art London with Scottish Gallery, The Compass Gallery, Ewan Mundy, Mainhill Gallery, Broughton Gallery, RSA and RSW Edinburgh, Royal College of Art Watercolour Fair, Royal Academy and Olympia Watercolour Fairs with Benjamin Hargreaves Gallery.