Neil MacPherson, RSA, RGI, is a Scottish artist born in 1954. He studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1974-1978, and he is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute. His surreal works have an extraordinary richness of colour with sparse compositions centred on large, dominating figures. His painting is recognisable for its expressionistic brushstrokes, which carries through into his printmaking.
MacPherson was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 2008, to the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in October 2010 and to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 2014. The award of RGI is made to artists for artistic merit and dedication to the Institute, and there are only 50 RGI’s at any given time.
