THE Rev. Bruce Robertson, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris,

yesterday conducted a memorial service there for the painter Mary

Stewart Gibson, who died in March.

A native of Breich, West Lothian, Mary Stewart Gibson was trained at

Glasgow School of Art. As a prominent member of the second generation of

Scottish colourists, she went to Paris just after the First World War

and mixed with the leading artists and intellectuals of the 1920s.

She worked in the same studio on the Left Bank for more than 50 years,

and exhibited regularly in Scotland and Paris.

Plans are now being drawn up for a possible retrospective exhibition

in Glasgow, although her paintings -- mainly landscapes -- are dispersed

all over the world.