Blair THOMSON(UK)


  • Born Scotland UK 1980. Studied Glasgow School of Art 1998-2002, BA (hons). Uses Oils, Mixed Media and Sumi. Has been featured in newspapers, magazines and television, such as BBC, ITV, Sunday Times, Kitanippon Shimbun. Works in corporate and private collections in Europe, USA and Japan.
  • Member of Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Council (Annual Exhibition Selection and Hanging Committee) and of Glasgow Art Club.
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  • Award
  • 2001 RGI Scholarship, RGI Exhibitionship
  • 2002 Awarded Esmee Fairbairn Residency at Cove Park, UK.
  • 2004 Awarded RSW Residency at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, UK.
  • 2007 RGI Langside College Watercolour Award, Glasgow Art Club Fellowship.
  • 2001 Solo exhibition "Tangible Places" at Gallery Cossachok (Glasgow, UK)
  • 2002 "Terra Nova" Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art (UK)
  • 0000 Solo Exhibition at Studio 24 (West Kilbride, UK)
  • 0000 Solo Exhibition "Emergance" at the Kelly Gallery (Glasgow, UK)
  • 2003 London Art Fair; Glasgow Art Fair, also '02 to '09 (UK)
  • 0000 "Scottish Art Today", Lloyds TSB (Edinburgh, UK)
  • 0000 Solo Exhibition at the Stenton Gallery (East Lothian, UK)
  • 2004 Royal Concert Hall Exhibition "Internationalism"(Glasgow, UK)
  • 2005 Baillie Gallery (London, UK)
  • 0000 Edinburgh Art Fair, showing with Panik Gallery (UK)
  • 2006 Featured Artist, Sophie Montgomery Art (London, UK)
  • 0000 Solo exhibition "In Time With The Wind", at Third Step Gallery (Glasgow, UK)
  • 2007 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, "Highland" (Edinburgh, UK)
  • 0000 New York Affordable Art Fair with Flying Colours Gallery (USA)
  • 2008 Curator of exhibition "New Faces", Glasgow Art Club (UK)
  • 0000 "Box of Delights", Ricefield Gallery (Glasgow, UK)
  • 2009 Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI)
  • 0000 Annual Exhibition, also '01 to '03, '06 to'08 (UK)
  • 0000 Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Art Museum (UK)
  • 0000 Solo Exhibition "Trailing the North Wind", Glasgow Art Club (UK)
  • 0000 Wakabayashi Shujo 90th Sho Exhibition, Toyama Kenmin-kaikan,
  • 0000 collaborating with him and designer Madam Chizuko (JAPAN)
  • 0000 "New Beginnings" Glasgow Print Studio (UK)
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  • Edge of the Tide
    153×153cm oils, mixed media and sumi