Louise Gibson Annand

Louise Gibson Annand-MacFarquhar MBE (27 May 1915 – 6 January 2012) was a Scottish painter and film-maker .

Born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Louise Gibson Annand attended the former Hamilton Academy school where her father, Walter D. Annand was English Principal. Her younger brother was Walter J D Annand, the aeronautical engineer and academic, who also attended the Hamilton Academy.

Entering the University of Glasgow as an arts student in 1933, Louise Annand graduated MA (Hons) in 1937. Subsequently attending Jordanhill Training College, she became a teacher in various schools in Glasgow until joining the Schools Museums Service in 1949 as an assistant; from 1970–80, as Museums Education Officer.

Exhibiting her paintings from 1945, Annand also produced 16 mm films including, in 1965, the first on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

(From the Scottish Screen archive.)

Throughout her career, Annand was much involved in Arts and arts-related organizations and was Chairman of the Scottish Educational Film Association (SEFA) (Glasgow Production Group) and of the Glasgow Lady Artists Club Trust (becoming in 1975, the Glasgow Society of Women Artists of which she was twice elected President (1977–79 and 1988–91).) She was also a National Vice-Chairman, Scottish Educational Media Association (SEMA) (1979–84); twice President of the Society of Scottish Women Artists (1963–66 and 1980–85) (eventually evolving into Visual Arts Scotland) and a Member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland (1979–86).

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