McRae studied painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (1987-1992), followed by a year in London at the Prince’s Drawing School. Over the years she has received awards and prizes from the BP Portrait Award, the Hunting Art Prizes, the Singer Friedlander and Kaupthing Watercolour Prizes, the Morrison Scottish Portrait Award and the Worshipful Society of Painter Stainers, amongst others. McRae lives and works in Edinburgh.
