Barbara Balmer RSA RSW 1929-2017
Overview
Flowers Posing, exhibited 2021 - SOLD
Barbara Balmer studied at Coventry College of Art followed by a four year degree at Edinburgh College of Art. She received the Andrew Grant Scholarship and a Travelling Scholarship at Edinburgh, which allowed her to visit France and Spain. Sbe first visited Italy in 1973, and the experience had a dramatic effect on her art, bringing soft colour and strong lines to the forefront, to invoke a sense of reverence and tranquility. Balmer taught at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen between 1970 and 1980. She was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, and the Royal Glasgow Institute.
Works
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Barbara Balmer RSA RSWCloister Garden, San Gimignano, c.1976signed; titled versooil on board36 x 42 inches -
Barbara Balmer RSA RSWNightsigned; signed and titled on frame versooil on board40 x 47 3/4 inches
101.6 x 121.3 cm -
Barbara Balmer RSA RSWPaper Flowerssigned; signed and titled to backboardwatercolour36 1/2 x 45 inches
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Barbara Balmer RSA RSWStill Life with Vine Leavessigned; titled to backboardwatercolour20 x 23 3/4 inches
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Barbara Balmer RSA RSWSunbright, San Gimignanosigned; signed and titled versooil on board40 x 54 inches
Exhibitions
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Still Life
17 Feb - 7 Apr 2023 LondonRead more -
Winter at The Fine Art Society
28 Nov - 22 Dec 2022 LondonRead more -
True to Nature
Trees in Scottish Art 23 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 EdinburghTrees, as an extension of the natural landscape, have been weighted with meaning throughout the history of art. Over time allegory gave way to the decorative and picturesque. The broader...Read more -
Barbara Balmer
18 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 EdinburghBarbara Balmer’s pictures have a curious, even surreal, edge. In her instantly recognisable style, she took the everyday and simplified it into shapes and patterns filled with subtle gradations of...Read more -
Modern
18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Edinburgh20th century Scottish works of art, including Barbara Balmer, Robert Henderson Blyth, John Boyd, John Byrne, FCB Cadell, Ian Fleming, William Gillies, Jack Knox, William McCance, and John McLean.Read more -
Hang 4 //
Modern Scottish Pictures 1 - 19 Sep 2020 EdinburghCelebrating the variety of 20th century Scottish Art, this selection of works captures modern perspectives of Scottish identity. In the face of global societal and technological change, the artists’ focus...Read more -
Hang 3 //
Scottish Painting 1950-1980 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 EdinburghThe decades following WW2 saw artists take new forms of artistic expression. The order and rationalism that had preceded was rejected. Painting became more gestural and instinctive; this was achieved...Read more -
Barbara Balmer 1929-2017
28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 EdinburghBarbara Balmer 1929-2017 was an exhibition of landscapes, still lifes and portraits in oil and watercolour by Barbara Balmer RSA RSW RGI. Balmer first visited Italy in 1973, and the...Read more -
Modern Paintings 1940-1985
24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017Modern Scottish Paintings 1940-1985, was exhibition of works created by Scottish artists in a period that emphasised individualism and rebellion against perceived safety and mundanity in the art that preceded...Read more
