Alma Wolfson DA PAI

Alma Wolfson was born in 1942. Between 1960 and 1964 Wolfson studied under Robert Stewart at Glasgow School of Art and gained her Diploma of Art (Textile Design). She has exhibited at many solo and mixed UK and Scottish exhibitions. In the process, her paintings have won awards including: Barclay Lennie Award Glasgow Society of Women Artists 1995; Millers Art Prize Paisley Art Institute 1995; Southern Art Club Trophy 1995 & 1998; Alva Purchase Prize SAAC 1998; Save the Children Award 2000.

Member and Past President of GSWA and The Southern Art Club.

Alma has exhibited throughout the UK including at the Royal Academy, London and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. She is a long-time exhibitor with Compass Gallery and Gerber Fine Art. Her work is held in many private and public collections including The Scottish Arts Council; Bank of Scotland; University of Glasgow and Painting in Hospitals.

Up until the late eighties her paintings were completed in gouache. After joining the Glasgow Southern Art Club she was encouraged to switch to oils and hasn't looked back.
Wolfson loves painting 'en plein air' in the Scottish landscape. She works in both oil and watercolour. Her painterly approach is suited and used to great effect when painting Landscapes or Seascapes. She is equally at home in her studio producing Still Life paintings. However it is the continuously changing Scottish weather patterns which are a constant source of inspiration and challenge.

Alma says “Careful consideration is not me: Turner was a pioneer on the spot painter and the excitement shows. I also love Claude Lorraine who was not! His timeless romanticism captivates me, I want to be there in his landscapes in the soft golden afterglow of a hot day.” Inspired by the works of Joan Eardley and William Gillies, she has developed her own style of painting, capturing many earthy colours, the effects of the weather and the changing light and atmosphere of Scottish landscapes in all seasons, embedding her own personal responses into her work.

Wolfson says “Painting and drawing are two separate activities for me. It is the feel of the paint on the brush, the inexactitude of the marks of a loaded brush, it is a record of my feelings on that day in that place, not a postcard of the view. The quality and fluidity is important, the manipulation of paint, pencil or pastels is like music, there are as many ways to compose a painting, as there is to compose a piece of music, each is unique.

Awards:

2025 P.A.I. The Art Club Award
2025 G.S.W.A. Special Award for outstanding work
2023 P.A.I. House for an Art Lover Award
2011 Concept Fine Art Award, PAI
2010 Henderson Award, Southern Art Club
2000 Save the Children Award
1999/1995/2023 Southern Art Club Trophy
1998 Alva Computer Purchase Prize SAAC
1998 The Laing Landscape Competition – Finalist
1995 Barclay Lennie Award, Glasgow Society of Women Artists
1995 Millers Art Prize, Paisley Art Institute

  • flowers in a vase

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    A Mixed Bunch

  • still life scene

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    My Toy Horse

  • Scottish landscape

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    Balvicar Bay

  • Landscape scene in Perthshire

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    Perthshire Landscape

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  • Scottish Landscape

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    Beyond Luing

  • evening sky

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    Evening Clouds

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  • snow on distant hills over a cityscape

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    Snow on the Campsies

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  • Road leading off into the distance by a landscape

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    Lockdown Walks

  • View over rooftops, Glasgow

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    Rooftops

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  • Landscape scene with snow

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    Winter reflections Perthshire

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  • landscape at dawn

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    Dawn Light

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  • Landscape scene

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    Passing shower, Perthshire

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  • Evening on the Clyde river

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    Evening on the Clyde, Dumbarton Rock in fading light

  • View of artist's garden at night

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    Night Garden

  • landscape with a white building

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    Farmhouse, Thortonhall

  • mist on a mountain

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    Rising Mist, Pap of Glencoe

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  • highland scene

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    Ballachulish

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  • view of an interior through a doorway

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    Interior, Glasgow Art Club

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  • interior of a room with various ceramics on show

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    Interior with ceramics

  • Boats in a harbour

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    Approaching Rain, Seahouses, Northumberland

  • Cranes at Greenock harbour during the Tall Ships Festival

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    Cranes at Greenock Tall Ships Festival

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  • urban scene of Glasgow

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    Tron Church, West George Street

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  • Church at Anstruther with harbour in foreground

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    The Dreel Church, Anstruther

  • still life of kitchen utensils

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    Kitchen Table

  • Kitchen utensils

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    Batterie de Cuisine (Kitchen Tools)

  • Horses

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    Waiting for Tourists, Salzburg

  • Two horses at a show

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    Standing around

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    Concentration (Flautist)

  • Musician playing a violin

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    Recital

  • Musician

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    Rapt

  • A musician playing an instrument

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    Cellist

  • Rooftops and trees

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    Eaglesham

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  • River through trees

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    Distant Highway

  • Scottish landscape scene of trees and buildings

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    Winter Fields, Perthshire

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  • Landscape view over rooftops

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    Hills Above Pitlochry

  • Rows of houses at Portpatrick harbour

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    Harbour Terrace

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  • Rainy landscape scene

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    Rain, The Isles of Glencoe

  • Objects on a windowsill with view to a garden

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    Winter Windowsill

  • Still life of jars on a shelf

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    Ginger Jar & Plums

  • collage of a landscape

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    Landscape composition

  • collage of a landscape

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    Landscape collage

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  • Landscape in the Scottish highlands

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    The 'Thumb', Glencoe

  • Boats and buildings at a harbour

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    Leith Dock

  • Brightly colourful buildings in Wexford, Ireland

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    Harbour Street, Wexford

  • Sea with a green cliff and buildings

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    Rhinns of Galloway

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  • Houses beside the village green with yellow flowers

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    Village Green, Sandhead

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  • Rain clouds

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    Rain Again

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  • Cliffs with clouds

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    Lifting Cloud

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  • View over Portpatrick to the harbour and lighthouse

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    Portpatrick

  • green landscape rolling down to meet the sea

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    Balvicar Sound

  • Scottish loch with hills and trees

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    West Highland Light

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  • Anstruther beach with buildings

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    Low Tide, Anstruther

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  • urban scene of Glasgow

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    Renovations near Trinity Tower, Glasgow

  • Horse with red ribbons in its mane

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    Cart Horse

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  • Horse at a horse show

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    Resting Cart Horse

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  • Horse at a horse show

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    Between Events, Heavy Horse Show

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  • Horse at a horse show

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    Clydesdale, Heavy Horse Show

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    Canadian Percheron, waiting to be hitched

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    Unhitched

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    'Lightning', Heavy Horse Show

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    Awaiting the carriage

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    About to be hitched up

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    Canadian Percheron

  • Tourist ponies in Switzerland

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    Carriage Ponies, Salzburg

  • Snow polo being played in the Swiss alps

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    Snow Polo, St. Moritz

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  • Cart collecting hay

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    'Hay Wain', Pollok Estate

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  • View over Glasgow city

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    Cloud Shadows, Cathkin Braes

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  • Urban scene of buildings and a car

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    Winter Evening, Waterloo Street

  • Cars and buildings

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    Polmadie Yard

  • Garden scene with trees

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    Dawn Garden

  • Dark Highland scene

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    Gloomy Day, Benderloch

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  • Two horses pulling a cart

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    Norwegian Fiord Ponies

  • View over Glasgow city

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    Cityscape

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    Glancing Sunlight, Cathkin Braes

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    Cathkin Braes, Late Afternoon Light

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  • Scene with chair and lamp in a dark room

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    Lamplight Reflections

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  • Musicians in an orchestra

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    The Page Turner

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  • Horse at a horse show

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    Pretty Pony

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    Heavy Horse I

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  • horse

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    Blue Roan Shetland Pony

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    Horse in Harness

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    Saddled, Ready to Go

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    Strawberry Roan Clydesdale

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    Pony I

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    Dappled Horse

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    Standing Horse

  • Musicians performing

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    Royal Conservatoire Competition

  • Figure with a hat on sitting on a bench

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    Portrait sitting (with hat)

  • Figure sketching outdoors

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    A Quick Sketch

  • Musicians performing

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    Song Recital

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    Morning Recital, Opera Festival

  • Horse at a horse show

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    Handler and his Horse

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  • Horse at a horse show

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    Dappled Grey

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  • Horses and a carriage

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    Horses and Carriage II

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    Horses and Carriage I

  • Horse at a horse show

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    Bruno, Dressed for the Show

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    Patiently waiting

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    Dressed for the Show

  • Boats in a harbour

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    Tall Ships Festival, Greenock I

  • Ferris wheel at the Tall Ships Festival

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    Tall Ships Festival, Greenock II

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  • Urban scene in city centre

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    Glasgow Street Scene

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  • Urban scene in Glasgow

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    Greek Thomson, Holmwood House

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  • Urban scene in Glasgow

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    Snuff Mill Road, Cathcart

  • Scottish landscape scene

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    Racing Clouds, Perthshire

  • Landscape scene in Scotland

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    Towards Loch Broom

  • Landscape in Scotland

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    Sunlit Field, Gleneagles

  • Scottish landscape scene

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    Low Cloud on the Hill

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  • Highland scene

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    Low Cloud, Perthshire (Pitlochry)

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  • Highland scene

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    Rolling Mist, Kinlochleven

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  • misty Highland scene

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    Between Showers, Kinlochleven

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  • Scottish landscape scene

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    Sunlit Pastures

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  • landscape scene in Perthshire

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    Study for Perthshire Landscape

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  • Scottish landscape scene

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    Low Mist, Pitlochry

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