Approaches to Portraiture
with Sandy Moffatt OBE, RSA
Former Head of Painting at Glasgow School of Art
 Sandy Moffatt (left) in conversation with the artist and playwright John Byrne |
Poet’s Pub, by Sandy Moffatt,1980 , oil on canvas,183 x 244cm
The Essential School of Painting was pleased to present a rare opportunity to do a painting workshop with Sandy (Alexander) Moffatt. The course held on the weekend Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th of March 2013. Sandy Moffat studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1960 to 64. Alongside his friend John Bellany, Moffat emerged as one of the Scottish Realists, so-called because of their social awareness and rejection of the decorative principles that defined much Scottish art during the first half of the twentieth century. Moffat was particularly close to the poet Hugh MacDiarmid and his literary circle. From 1979 Moffat taught at Glasgow School of Art where he mentored a new generation of Scottish figurative painters including Peter Howson, Ken Currie, Steven Campbell, Alison Harper and Debbie Lee. He was Head of Painting at GSA from 1992 – 2005.
To see more of Sandy’s work please follow the link: http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/M/241/artistName/Alexander%2520Moffat/recordId/8217