A popular colourist painter of rich still lifes, landscapes, snow scenes and seascapes, Mike
Healey paints spontaneous ‘pleinair’ scenes mainly in the Highlands and Islands. He has
exhibited extensively throughout his career in London, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland,
Bermuda, Japan and in his native Scotland. His artworks may be found in several public,
corporate and private collections worldwide, including the European Parliament, the Royal
Mail, Woburn Abbey, Glasgow School of Art, Argyll and Bute Museum and Libraries, the
Scottish Education Department and The Collection, Bermuda, under the Patronship of HRH
the Prince of Wales. The Bank of Scotland, Coutts Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland have
all acquired several paintings for their permanent public collections. Mike has exhibited with
Thompson’s Gallery London since June 2000 and he has had six sell-out solo shows.

Mike Healey studied under John Cunningham both at school and at Glasgow School of Art,
winning the Haldane Drawing Prize and the Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship. He is an
Associate of Glasgow School of Art. In the early 1980s he taught at the School of Art and
worked there until 1997. Mike Healey was awarded the Chair of Professor of Art and Design
at the University of Lincoln in 2003. Bibliography: “Mike Healey” The Dictionary of Scottish
Art, 1600 to the Present. Author Julian Halsby and Paul Harris. Publisher: Birlinn ISBN:
9781841588827. “Mike Healey” The Artist Magazine has twice featured the artists work as a
professional master class. Mike Healey works from a studio in Argyllshire and Lincolnshire.