* NORMAN EDGAR RGI (SCOTTISH 1948 - 2022) SAILBOATS

watercolour on paper, signed
mounted, framed and under glass

image size 15cm x 21cm, overall size 36cm x 41cm

.Note: Norman Edgar studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1966 to 70 and went on to teach there until 1990, when he left in order to paint full-time. He was a landscape and portrait painter, working in the Colourist tradition. A member of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, he showed work regularly in the annual Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions. He had long been a resident of Gourock on the south bank of the River Clyde and marine activities feature prominently in his work. He is also widely regarded to be one of Scotland's leading still life painters. Known collections include: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt University, Greenock Art Gallery, Argyll Education Authority, Renfrew Education Authority, Lord Morton, Guinness Plc, United Distillers, Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, Glasgow Dental Hospital, Pitlochry Theatre and in numerous corporate and private collections in the USA, Germany and the UK. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 2nd March 2023 lot 233 "Still Life with Fruit", a large oil by Norman Edgar sold for £2400 (hammer).