Barbara Rae: Dark Ice Floes

Barbara Rae: Dark Ice FloesCelebrated painter Barbara Rae CBE RA FRSE studied in Edinburgh in the 1960's, where she was awarded a travel scholarship to study in France and Spain. She was elected President of the Society of Scottish Artists in 1983 and became a Member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1992. This etching, part of a set of four (including "Light on Peel Sound", "Sea Ice Lancaster Sound" and "Sea Ice Illulissat") is inspired by the artists namesake (but no relation)

Famed co-conspirator of Hunter S

Paper Size: 55 x 41 cm Medium: Etching Edition Size: 20 Year: 1994

He was elected a Royal Academician in 1995 and made Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art 1998-2008

Paper Size: 97

where a rowan tree grew

Aberdeen’s very own Graeme Murdoch draws Black Bag – “the faithful border bin liner” for The Viz

He has been described as a social surrealist

Edition Size: A/P

and then I remembered the large screen beds at Peacock (where I had been working for several years) and the idea of screen printing the whole thing in sections arrived

Whilst taking a position on these experiences might constitute views from opposite ends of the telescope

Thomas A Clark was born in Greenock

The pale blue is the present moment of Nigg Bay Nature Reserve on the Cromarty Firth