£2,375
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Signed and dated '84, oil on canvas
Biography:
Gordon Mitchell was born in 1952 and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. He had a successful career teaching art but left in 1989 to devote all of his time to painting.
Self-described as an 'abstract expressionist', Mitchell finds inspiration in current events and visual puns. His work is often also considered surrealist, due to its otherworldly, almost unsettling qualities, although Mitchell rejects this label. While sculpture remains one of his interests, he finds painting to be a more immediate form of expression.
Over the years, he has won numerous awards including the Sir William Gillies Award from the RSW and the John Murray Thompson Award from the RSA. He has held solo exhibitions across the UK. Mitchell is an elected Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour (1997), the Royal Glasgow Institute (1998) and the Royal Scottish Academy (2005).