June Redfern, born 1951

June Redfern was born in Fife and is a renowned painter and teacher who has displayed work around the world including London’s National Gallery. She has become one of Scotland's foremost expressionist landscape painters. She attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1968 to 1972, winning first prize in the Scottish Young Contemporaries in the latter year. Her painting was founded on the traditional and academic techniques she learned in college, which helped her understand how to paint people, landscapes, and perspective. She primarily works in watercolour and oil paint, and her work is highly expressive. Her paintings tend to be quite large in scale, with a lot of her early work depicting female figures, in order to represent feelings and atmosphere of a place or subject. From 1982 to 1983, she taught part-time at Preston Polytechnic before becoming a junior fellow at Cardiff College of Art the following year. She was the artist-in-residence at London's National Gallery in 1985. In 1976, Redfern had a solo exhibition at the Scottish Arts Council in Edinburgh. Her work can be found in numerous public collections, including those of the Scottish Arts Council, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Contemporary Art Society. She lives and works in London.