Our current exhibition, David Michie The Early Years is being partnered with examples by his mother, Anne Redpath (1895-1965) who was a pivotal figure in the group of painters now referred to as The Edinburgh School. She attended the College of Art, receiving her diploma in 1917. After a lengthy spell in the south of France, Redpath returned to Hawick in the mid-1930s. Her brilliant manipulation of paint, left in delicious peaks or eked across a rough surface with a palette knife, is characteristic of the varied responses to different subjects at different times. In the last years of her output she often favoured a limited palette; perhaps a few brilliant, jewel-like notes enlivening a dark or white composition.
We have included five paintings of Anne Redpath to accompany David Michie The Early Years alongside detailed picture notes to give further insight into this iconic artist.
