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George Donald RSA is a painter, printmaker and lecturer in studio arts. His contemplative paintings of gardens, figures and landscapes combine colour, texture and pattern, to delight, provoke thought and elicit meaning.
George was born in Ootacamund, India in 1943 and went on to study at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), Hornsey College of Art, London, and at the University of Edinburgh. He lectured in drawing, painting and printmaking at ECA from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. During this time he became Assistant to the Vice Principal and Director of the Centre for Continuing Studies at ECA. George is a visiting professor of Anatomy and Drawing at the University of Central Florida, USA, and the University of the Arts, London, and has taught in many overseas universities including in France, Spain, India, Korea, China and Japan. His home and studio is in the Scottish Borders.
In this selection of paintings, the artist revisits imagery that has recurred in his oeuvre for more than thirty years. Re-working some themes and obsessions, he introduces new preoccupations, from the cloud atlas and folk music to intimate domestic dramas and visual ideas derived from travel in diverse cultures: Japan, China, India, Morocco, Central- and North America.
