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Michie’s was a playful mind, perpetually amused by the unfolding comédie humaine of life but with the artist’s instinct to make his observations into satisfying, beautiful and thought-provoking paintings. Modular, colourful kids play areas are routinely placed in our public spaces. Playing Outside the Pompidou Centre, Paris the complex, famous façade designed by Richard Rogers, has become Michie’s unusual, charming subject, filled with the joyous faces of its child patrons, perhaps releasing energy after the compulsory museum tour.
Born in Saint-Raphaël, France, the son of painter Anne Redpath, David Michie (1928-2015) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1953 following a travelling scholarship to Italy with fellow student John Houston. He lectured at Gray’s in Aberdeen and from 1961–1982 at Edinburgh from where he retired in 1990 as Head of School of Drawing and Painting. He died in Edinburgh in 2015 and The Scottish Gallery held his Memorial Exhibition in March 2017, celebrating the life and work of one of Scotland’s most enduring image-makers. We continue to work with the Michie estate hosting David Michie Studio Insights in February 2021, and The Early Years in March 2023.
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