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Mike Healey – Artist Biography

Scottish artist Mike Healey studied at the renowned Glasgow School of Art, where he was awarded the Haldane Drawing Prize and the Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship. He was mentored by the acclaimed painter John Cunningham, both during his school years and at the Glasgow School of Art.

In the early 1980s, Healey joined the teaching staff at the Glasgow School of Art, where he remained until 1997. His academic career continued with distinction, culminating in his appointment as Professor and Chair of Art and Design at the University of Lincoln in 2003.

Mike Healey has exhibited widely, with shows in London, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, Bermuda, Japan, Australia, and throughout Scotland. His work—ranging from vibrant still lifes to evocative plein air landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and Islands—reflects and continues the legacy of the Scottish Colourist tradition.

His paintings are held in numerous corporate and public collections, including:

• Coutts Bank, London

• Bank of Scotland

• The Royal Bank of Scotland

• European Parliament

• Royal Mail

• Church of Scotland

• Springbank Distillery

• Bermuda National Gallery and Museum

• Argyll and Bute Council Collection

• University of Lincoln

Bibliography

• Mike Healey in The Dictionary of Scottish Art, 1600 to the Present
  Authors: Julian Halsby and Paul Harris
  Publisher: Birlinn
  ISBN: 9781841588827