Basil Beattie RA (born 1935) is a British artist, whose work revolves around abstraction and is known for its emotive and gestural forms.
He then began a long teaching career: during the 1980s and 1990s, Beattie taught at Goldsmiths College in London.
He retired from the role in 1998, spending a further year as assessor at the Chelsea School of Art.
Beattie's unusual use of hieroglyphs with signs and characters arranged in a cellular format was displayed with a 1986 production called Legend.
10 ft by 12 ft its originality and multi-layered appearance was a hallmark of a painter who had many one-man solo exhibitions, as well as the normal group shows, including a significant event at Curwen Gallery in 1990.