Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, DBE, RA, RSA, (24 September 1931 – 23 August 2021) was a Scottish painter and printmaker. Blackadder's signature subjects included landscape, cats, flowers, still life and portraits. Blackadder's work was based in the traditions of the Edinburgh School, but was strongly influenced by Japanese aesthetics. Characteristically, she carefully arranged objects in a shallow pictorial space to create intriguing and subtly decorative images.
Blackadder was first invited to make an etching at Glasgow Print Studio in 1985, and since that time has produced around 150 editions in lithograph, screenprint, etching and woodcut and has exhibited in the gallery several times.
