Artists Corrie Isle of Arran

E.A.Taylor

jmk

Jessie M King was a painter and book illistrator who in her student days associated with the Glasgow Girls and was encouraged by Francis Newberry head of Glasgow School of Art who commissioned MacIntosh to design the New Art School.She married A E Taylor a fellow student & in 1910, King and Taylor moved to Paris where they lived until the outbreak of World War I. Taylor was a professor at the Studio School of Drawing and Painting, and, together with King, they ran a studio gallery called the Shealing Atelier of Oil and Watercolour Painting, Design and the Applied Arts.In 1914 they settled in the artist community of Kirkcudbright, where King established ‘Green Gate Close’, an important center for women artists.They spent their summers on the Isle of Arran, where they had spent their honeymoon, and ran a summer sketching school there. Renting 2 or three cottages.

E A Taylor

E. A Talor married Jessie M King in 1908. They ran a summer sketching school in High Corrie from the start of the 2nd world war when they had to return to Scotland/Kirkcudbright from Paris.