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George Donald RSA is a painter, printmaker and lecturer in studio arts. His calm and contemplative paintings of gardens, figures and landscapes combine colour, texture and pattern to delight, provoke thought or elicit meaning.
Donald was born in Ootacamund, India in 1943. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and Hornsey College of Art, London and went to lecturer in drawing, painting and printmaking at ECA from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. Donald was also Assistant to the Vice Principal and Director of the Centre for Continuing Studies at ECA, Professor of Anatomy and Drawing at the University of Central Florida, USA, and has been visiting lecturer in many overseas universities in countries including India, China and Japan.
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.
