Scottish Art: Mike Healey

Mike Healey was born in Brazil in 1951. He moved to Scotland in 1962 and studied under John Cunningham at Glasgow School of Art graduating in 1975. He went on to win the Haldane Travelling Scholarship and the Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship to the United States.

From 1977 – 1981 Mike Healey worked in Rio de Janeiro as a freelance designer on Brazilian government projects. In the early 1980s he returned to Scotland and was appointed senior lecturer at Glasgow School of Art where he worked until 1997. Mike now divides his time between his Scottish art studio, painting trips and teaching at Lincoln University where he was awarded a professorial chair in Art and Design in 2003.

Mike Healey is a popular colourist painter who produces rich still lives, Scottish landscapes, snow scenes and Scottish seascapes. He paints spontaneous ‘plein-air’ scenes in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and is a true painter of the Scottish School whose influences can be traced back to the flat perspectives of Anne Redpath and the vivid colours of Scottish Colourist Francis Cadell.

Mike Healey contemporary paintings display a rich quality and his use of vivid strong brushstrokes successfully captures Mike’s direct response to the elements he sees. Capturing the changing visual effect of nature on his surroundings is important to him. In Mike Healey’s words, ‘It goes beyond painting – the scents, noises, the wind and sound of the sea. All these influences contribute to the act of painting.’

Mike Healey has exhibited extensively throughout his career, in his native Scotland and in London, the United States and Japan. His paintings may be found in several public, corporate and private collections worldwide, including Glasgow School of Art, the European Parliament, the Royal Mail, Woburn Abbey, Argyll and Bute Museum and Libraries. The Bank of Scotland, Coutts Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland have all purchased several paintings for their permanent collections. In addition to Red Rag Art Gallery Mike Healey has exhibited at other leading Scottish Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Mike Healey artist studio and like all Red Rag Scottish art and Modern art it can be shipped worldwide.

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Scottish Art: Mike Healey at Red Rag Gallery

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