Elected ARSA: 19 March 1952
Robert Sinclair Thomson was born on the 25th of December 1915 in Glasgow. He went to school in Glasgow and after winning a scholarship for entry to Allan Glen’s School, studied there for the next six years. In 1941 he studied at the Glasgow School of Art and studied drawing and painting. He went on to teach evening pottery classes there and in later years lectured in drawing and painting.
His work was strongly based on fine draughtsmanship using oil, watercolour and pastel. His early work consisted of fine portraiture and figure compositions, later going on to create many interesting landscapes. In pottery, he received a commission for large figurative murals made from pottery tiles for schools in Lanarkshire. He exhibited his work many times at the RSA.
He was elected ARSA in 1952.
