£4,000
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Signed, inscribed and dated verso, oil on canvas
Note: Archie Forrest, 12 - 31 May 2000, Portland Gallery catalogue accompanies this lot
Biography:
Archie Forrest is a Scottish contemporary artist, known for his work in the Scottish Colourist tradition and his use of brilliant colour, quality of detail and sense of form.
Born in Glasgow in 1950, Forrest attended Glasgow School of Art from 1969-73 and taught there from 1978-85. In 1985, he left teaching so that he could devote his time to painting. He works in the Scottish Colourist tradition, creating brilliantly colours and skilful compositions that involve still lives, figures and landscape subjects.
Elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1988, Forrest has regularly exhibited there and at the Royal Scottish Academy since 1975.