Kathryn Kynoch RP, RGI

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Born in Portobello in1942, Kathryn Kynoch studied at the Glasgow School of Art from1959 to1964. After completing a Highly Commended postgraduate year in1964 she won a travelling scholarship to Madrid where she studied in the Museo del Prado for four months. Commissioned to paint several eminent Scots she has since moved into a wider range of subject matter though never abandoning the figurative image. 

Kathryn has exhibited widely. Public Collections include Glasgow Museums, Kelvingrove; Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow; Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Stirling and Leicester; Royal Scottish Conservatoire; Scottish Office, Dover House, London. Private Collections include United Kingdom, Europe and the USA.

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Kathryn was elected as an artist member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1994, and as an artist member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2021 .

She likes the words of artist Francis Bacon that: “painting is an attempt to make idea and technique inseparable, where the brushstroke creates the form and does not merely fill it” …. and that “real painting is a mysterious and continuous struggle with chance.”