Rae is known for her expressive, richly coloured paintings, and has exhibited throughout Europe and America. Her work is most often inspired by long periods spent in different landscape environments which she then distils and translates into multi-layered works. Her ease with watercolour is seen in this expressive watercolour from the early 1990s.

Barbara Rae CBE RA RSA RSW, born 1943

Born in Stirlingshire, Rae studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1961 to 1965. Awarded a travelling scholarship, she visited France and Spain in 1966. She taught at Aberdeen College of Education from 1972, and in 1975 became lecturer in drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art.