Rae is known for her expressive, richly coloured and abstracted landscape paintings. Her work is most often inspired by long periods spent in different landscape environments which she then distils and translates into multi-layered works. Having travelled and made studies on site, she brings this knowledge back to her studio to create finished paintings, full of the memory of the place.

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.