The Secret World of Drawing Pictures
Can the intimacy of the thumbnail sketch, raw and untethered reveal secret thoughts and hidden meaning? Artist and Lecturer Robbie Bushe deconstructs both his own and his heroes’ pictorial drawings and paintings and retraces their roots in early doodles and sketches.

Robbie Bushe RSA
Robbie Bushe is lecturer in Art and Design at University of Edinburgh Short Courses. He has shown his paintings throughout the UK since 1990. His work is inspired by the characters and the places he has lived and worked. He has won several national awards including, most recently, the W Gordon Smith Award. Before joining the Centre for Open Learning, Robbie taught painting at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen and was Head of Fine Art at the University of Chichester. He has also lectured at Kent Institute of Art and Design and Oxford Brookes University. From 2013-2016, Robbie was also President of Visual Arts Scotland and in 2017 he was elected as a member of the Royal Scottish Academy.

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