Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley, 1921-1963. Born in Sussex. Studied at Goldsmith's and Glasgow School of Art 1940-3. 1947 at Hospitalfield under James Cowie. Post-Diploma at Glasgow in 1948 followed by travel in Italy and France.Work from 1950's divides between the townscape and children of depressed urban Glasgow from her studio in Townhead and her powerful land and seascapes from her cottage at Catterline, in Kincardineshire. Died tragically young.