George Donald RSA
George Donald RSA is a painter, printmaker and lecturer in studio arts. His calm and contemplative paintings of gardens, figures and landscapes combine colour, texture and pattern to delight, provoke thought or elicit meaning.
Donald was born in Ootacamund, India in 1943. He graduated from Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art in 1967 and then attended Hornsey College of Art, London, in 1969 and the University of Edinburgh in 1980. He was Lecturer in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking at ECA from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. Donald was also Assistant to the Vice Principal and Director of the Centre for Continuing Studies at ECA; Professor of Anatomy and Drawing at the University of Central Florida, USA, and has also been visiting lecturer in many overseas universities in countries including India, China and Japan.
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George Donald RSATiger in the Skymixed media118 x 100 cm
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George Donald RSAIn Andaluz, 2021Acrylic on board113 x 108 cm£ 3,500.00
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George Donald RSAA Backward Glance (Kyoto)acrylic and collage57 x 67 cm£ 2,000.00
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George Donald RSABorder Ballad, 2020Acrylic on linen board39 x 45 cm£ 1,500.00
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George Donald RSAChrysanthemum Summeracrylic and collageImage: 47 x 38 cm£ 1,000.00
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George Donald RSAChrysanthemums Shrine: SouzhouMixed media collage118 x 100£ 3,500.00
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George Donald RSACuban Mistacrylic on prepared board, framed and glazed100 x 118 cm£ 3,800.00
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George Donald RSAHeron Rising - Indian River, FloridaAcrylic on linen on board34 x 38 cm£ 1,250.00
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Summer in the City
25 June - 22 July 2022The Academicians' Gallery | Free Summer in the City brings together recent works by Royal Scottish Academicians for the summer months. Featuring works by Henry Kondracki, Elspeth Lamb, Ade Adesina,...Read more -
The Christmas Show
27 November - 18 December 2021This winter we are delighted to once again present our Christmas Show. Featuring over a hundred works by our Royal Scottish Academicians, many at affordable prices, the exhibition will be a wonderful opportunity to peruse Christmas gifts or acquire a new work for your own collection.Read more -
Our Infinite Land
22 June - 21 July 2019The Academicians' Gallery Free entry The Royal Scottish Academy is pleased to present Our Infinite Land . Taking Hugh MacDiarmid’s decrial ‘Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?’ as...Read more -
Aviary
19 January - 17 February 2019The Academicians’ Gallery Free entry Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song. No winter in thy year! Michael...Read more -
Winter Flowers
20 January - 8 March 2018RSA Lower Galleries Free entry In 2015, an Anne Redpath lithograph was purchased for the RSA Collection. Winters Flowers was made by Anne in collaboration with Harley Brothers in Edinburgh....Read more -
The Curious Eye II
4 - 30 June 2016RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360 panorama view of the exhibition please click here and scroll with mouse. In 2007 John Busby proposed and co-curated The Curious Eye;...Read more -
In Japan
Highlights of Academicians' projects in contemporary Japan 30 July - 17 September 2011RSA Finlay & Projects Room Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. Artists have long been fascinated with Japanese art and culture. This exhibition examines projects...Read more -
George Donald RSA
New Paintings 10 May - 30 June 2008RSA Friends Room Exhibition “In 2005, George Donald travelled from Vietnam to Australia, across the South Pacific, to Tahiti and Easter Island. From 1960’s newsreel images of the battered Mekong...Read more -
The Curious Eye
14 July - 27 September 2007RSA Friends Room & Library Artists are naturally curious and, in all cultures since cave painting, curiosity about the natural world has been a springing point for the creative imagination....Read more -
The Body in the Library
George Donald RSA and Early Anatomists 11 April - 25 July 2005The RSA Library Since the Renaissance the study of anatomy and the human figure has been the central element in an artist’s training. Although no longer a universal practice, George...Read more