RGI

 

Norman B Edgar RGI

 

Year of Birth:

1948

 

Studied:

Glasgow School of Art 1966 - 1970

 

Elected:

RGI - 1991; President of Glasgow Art Club - 1993

 

Resigned from teaching in 1990 to become a full-time painter.

 

Portrait Commissions:

The Duke of Hamilton; Lord Maclehose of Boech KT; The University of Glasgow; The Trades House of Glasgow; The Archdiocese of Glasgow - Cardinal Winning; Sir Fitzroy MacLean KT; The Royal Incorporation of Architects, Edinburgh; Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow, Sir James Black; Sir David and Lady Hunt; Sir Houston Shaw Stewart, William Grant and Son; The Royal Infirmary, Glasgow; The Royal College of Obstetricians, London and The Royal College of Anaesthetists, London. Painted Dr Winnie Ewing MSP for the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland.

 

Private Collections:

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; HRH The Princess Royal; The University of Glasgow; the McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock; Argyll Education authority; Renfrew Education Authority; Lord Morton; Robert Fleming; Guinness plc; United Distillers; Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden KT; Glasgow Dental Hospital; Pitlochry Theatre; Credit Lyonnaise; Clydesdale Bank; The Bank of Scotland and in numerous private collections in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong, South Africa and Britain.

 

Solo Exhibitions:

Glasgow Art Club; Vallar Gallery, Glasgow; The RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow; Macauley Gallery, Stenton, East Lothian; Barclay Lennie Fine Art, Glasgow; Thompson’s Gallery, London; Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

 

Group Exhibitions:

City Gallery, London; The RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the World, Richard Hagen Gallery Broadway and Art in the Square, Glasgow. Also exhibits regularly at The Royal Portrait Society, London and at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.