About The Provost James Rae Trust
The Provost James Rae Trust at 28 Anderson Place, Edinburgh.
The Provost James Rae Trust
The Provost James Rae Trust was established to administer the Barbara Rae RA CBE archive of paintings and prints. It is named in tribute to the artist’s father who was at one time Provost of Crieff, Perthshire where the artist grew up.
The purpose of the Trust is to raise funds to help artists with specific projects that they otherwise would not be able to afford.
The Trust is based at 28 Anderson Place, Edinburgh EH6 5FR. There is a gallery and archive where visitors can view works by appointment.
All works in the archive are available for sale.
Grants will be made at the discretion of the Trustees, and will be available to mid career and older artists born, educated and residing in Scotland.
Registered Scottish Charity Number SC044208
Please contact : info@provostjamesraetrust.org
Forsay Night
Dr Barbara Rae CBE, RA, RSA, HRE, HRWS, RGI FRCA, FRSE, HFRIAS, Royal Academician painter and master printmaker, is recognised internationally as an outstanding colourist.
Recipient of numerous awards, scholarships, and honorary degrees, her work is exhibited in national museums, and public and private collections the world over. Solo exhibitions include Edinburgh during the International Festival of Arts, to New York, from Dublin to Oslo, from London to Chicago to Taos, New Mexico, and to Mexico itself.
Rae was educated at Morrison's Academy, Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland, studying at the Edinburgh College of Art, later lecturing at Charles Rennie Macintosh’s School of Art in Glasgow after some years as a secondary school art teacher.
Rae’s inspirations are with the people, locations and local histories of the places she records, shown throughout her many sketchbooks. She develops the studies as prints or paintings in her Edinburgh studios. She has collaborated with other artists and makers on tapestries, ceramics, jewellery and even a Royal Mail commemorative stamp.
She arrived from a school with an excellent encouraging background in the arts. No specific artist influenced her, however there are. No artist influenced her. However, there are artists whose work she admires such as Spanish painters Antoni Tàpies and Joan Miró, as well as the celebrated American abstractionist Richard Diebenkorn, whom she met and befriended.
For further information, interviews, galleries artwork prices and more please contact us at: info@provostjamesraetrust.org