Brooklyn-based Scottish painter Catriona Herd graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee after completing five years of study including a post-graduate year.

She then graduated from teacher training college and taught art in both junior and high schools. Catriona also lived and worked in Hong Kong and New Zealand before settling in New York with her journalist husband five years ago.

She has painted at the Art Students League in Manhattan since 2005 and has been awarded successive work study scholarships.

Catriona's paintings are held in private collections in the United States and in the University of Dundee's permanent collection .

Catriona's landscapes are worked almost entirely from plein air sketches. She also paints the figure.

She is currently working towards a one-woman show (Catriona Herd: Landscape and figure) at The Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, from December 22, 2008 until January 4, 2009.