Kathryn Kynoch RP, RGI​

Born in Portobello in 1941, Kathryn Kynoch studied at the Glasgow School of Art from1959 to1964. After completing a Highly Commended post-Diploma year in1964 she won a Haldane Travelling Scholarship to Madrid where she studied in the Museo del Prado for four months. Commissioned to paint several eminent Scots she moved into a wider range of subject matter though never abandoning the figurative image. Kathryn passed away in Glasgow at the end of February 2025.

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

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 liked 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.”