The Association is delighted to welcome Bill Dick as Inch House’s first ‘artist in residence’. Bill now has his main studio at Inch House and will also offer art classes to the community, including a weekly Drawing & Painting Course, which starts on Friday 29th September and running until 01 December. He will also be mentoring local artists. Bill was born in Glasgow and graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, receiving a Fine Art Degree and a Post Graduate Degree, after which he continued his studies at St Martin’s School of Art, London. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and bursaries: most notably from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the British Council. He has developed his work in residencies in the UK, USA, Russia, Hungary and the Middle East. He completed working residencies at the highly regarded Bemis Center, Omaha U.S.A., Triangle Artists’ Workshop, New York and Yaddo Artists’ Residence at Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He presently lives and works in Edinburgh.