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Ian McKenzie Smith OBE, RSA, PRSW
Title: Basin Fragment
Date: 2009
Bronze, H 16 cms x D 15 x W 15
Ian McKenzie Smith’s current work shows his continuing commitment to a distinctly personal brand of landscape-based abstraction: a subtle, evocative way of painting that owes something to Eastern traditions, as well as to the American colour-field painters of the 1950s.
Biography
Ian McKenzie Smith’s current work shows his continuing commitment to a distinctly personal brand of landscape-based abstraction: a subtle, evocative way of painting that owes something to Eastern traditions, as well as to the American colour-field painters of the 1950s.
McKenzie Smith was born in Montrose in 1935 and studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and at Hospitalfield in Arbroath from 1953 to 1958. A travelling scholarship in 1959 took him to Paris where he met the Japanese artist, Kenzo Okada, and encountered Zen philosophy. An oriental sense of balance and calligraphic finesse has been a feature of his work ever since.
Awarded the OBE for his services to Art in 1992, he was President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour 1988 to 1998, Secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1991 to 1998 and President of the RSA from 1998 to 2007. He was Director of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums for almost 30 years and was a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. He has work in many public collections including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth and Glasgow Art Galleries and in the US and Japan. |
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