Barbara Rae CBE RA RSA RGI RSW

Born in 1943 studied at Edinburgh College of Art where she was awarded a travel scholarship travelling to France and Spain in 1966. She has taught painting, drawing and printmaking at Aberdeen and GSA.

Exhibiting in major solo and group shows nationally and internationally she won tapestry commissions for Royal Scottish Museum and The Festival Theatre Edinburgh. Her work is in many private and public collections worldwide. Awards include Major Scottish Arts Council Award , Guthrie Medal, RSA Sir William Gillies Award RSA, Calouste Gulbenkian Printmaking Award and Hunting Group Prizewinner.Past president of the SSA she is also a member of the RSA, RGI RSW, RA, the Royal Fine art Commission and was a member of the Board of the British School at Rome in 1998. In 1999 she was awarded a CBE and received a Honorary Doctorate from Napier University, Edinbugh.

“My use of colour is pronounced because that's how I want to express my images. Getting them to balance, to be harmonious, only comes with years of experience” - B. Rae.

Working in mixed media, paintings, monotypes original screenprints and etchings her subjects include Arizona, New Mexico, Ireland and Scotland. These astounding works live and breath life, symbols of the past and present amalgamate through complex arrangements of colour,