Dr Barbara Rae CBE RA RSA RE "Terraces on the Hill" Signed, mixed media on paper, 29cm by 29cm (56cm by 55cm framed)

Royal Academician painter Barbara Rae is acknowledged internationally as an incomparable colourist and master printmaker. She is not a landscape painter, but an artist interested in how places and spaces are shaped by humankind and by time. She is a recorder of time passing. A highland girl, she studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, thereafter teaching art in secondary schools, later lecturing at Aberdeen College of Education, and finally Charles Rennie Macintosh’s School of Art in Glasgow, before demand for her work meant opening her own studio full-time. Her pronounced ability was recognised early in her vocation securing her gallery representation in Edinburgh, London, and Bath. Solo exhibitions soon followed in international venues, Chicago, New York, Washington, Santa Fe - New Mexico, Oslo, Hong Kong, Dublin and Belfast, and an annual show during Edinburgh’s International Arts Festival. UK exhibitions include Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Manchester, Bath, Cambridge University and Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Her art is held in national museums, galleries and by collectors the world over. She was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1999. Her work is garlanded with awards and honorary degrees; a portrait painted by Geoff Squire hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. For relaxation Rae cites cooking and travel. By travel she means disappearing for weeks on end to some of the world’s remotest areas in search of inspiration. Definitive books on Barbara Rae's art are: 'Barbara Rae - Major Work', published by Lund Humphries; 'Barbara Rae - Prints'; and 'Barbara Rae - Sketchbooks', plus 'The Northwest Passage', all published by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Rae’s creative output also includes portraits, tapestries, ceramics, jewellery, and even a Royal Mail stamp issued in 2018.

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