Euphemia MacTavish studied at Edinburgh College of Art gaining a BA and MA, and later B Ed at Moray House College.  She worked as a Freelance Illustrator for Spare Rib magazine and exhibited with ‘European Illustration’ in the Pompidou Centre Paris in 1977. She was Subject Leader in Printmaking at Maidstone College of Art (KIAD) from 1988 to 1991. She was Senior Lecturer 1994 -2005 and then Subject Leader in Printmaking at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent from 2005-2020.

From the late 1980’s she has made art films,  3 metre panoramas, one of which was bought by the British Musem, Paintings, Etchings, Drawings, and small ‘Art’ films, a 16 metre panorama of the Ramesseum Temple Luxor, Egypt, many watercolour and drawn notebooks, a series of 60 etchings inspired by the archaeological sites and rituals of Ancient spaces in West Bank Luxor Temples and Tombs.  In 2023 she had a major solo exhibition ‘ Things not meant to be seen’ at the Daphne Oram at Canterbury Christchurch University of her paintings and etchings as well as three vitrines of found coloured plastic objects from the Ramesseum Temple…. She lives and works in Canterbury.