Francis Boag – New work

Just Art, Fochabers 4th November to 1st December

Francis Boag is firmly established as a leading member of the Scottish New Colourists and these days his work is highly collectable.

Francis was born in Dundee in 1948 and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in the late sixties where his tutors included Alberto Morrocco and David McClure.

He continued to develop his painting throughout a successful teaching career, leading to being appointed Head of Art at Aberdeen Grammar School in 1 989. It was his subsequent move to the North East which signaled a major change of direction in his work.

Initially drawing his inspiration from the colour and texture found within the surrounding landscape, Francis started to exhibit commercially in 1995 and quickly built a reputation as one of Scotland’s most exciting, contemporary landscape painters.

Francis now exhibits widely throughout the UK and attracts attention from an international market, and his subject matter has developed to embrace the colour and splendour of Mediterranean subjects and wherever his travels may take him.

Since 2003 his images have featured regularly as cards for the international children’s charity, UNICEF. He is the only Scottish artist to be included in their fine art collection.

In 2009, in collaboration with leading Scottish photographer Andy Hall, Francis produced a book The Mearns Distilled as a celebration of the beauty and diversity of the landscape which is so central within his paintings.

In June 2001, after nearly 30 years teaching Art in schools around Scotland, Francis Boag decided to challenge the maxim that ‘Those who can, do and those who can’t, teach’ when he left behind the security of his post as Head of Art at Aberdeen Grammar School, to achieve a lifelong ambition to make a career as an Artist.

More than 10 years on, his life-changing decision has been vindicated and Francis is now one of Scotland’s most popular and best-selling painters, exhibiting widely at home and abroad.

In that time he has exhibited throughout the UK and also New York, Dublin, Belfast, Paris, Munich, Michigan and Seattle.

Recent polls published in the press in Scotland and Ireland have both placed him in their lists of top 50 best selling artists, and he is one of only a few artists who has work in the National Collections of both countries.

You will soon be able to see these paintings on the BBC’s new website cataloguing the Nations paintings, ‘Your Paintings’ at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings

His widely admired limited edition prints have found their way into a host of public buildings such as airports and hospitals and his original work is increasingly sought after by large corporate collectors including John Lewis plc and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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