Ian Fleming (19 November 1906 – 24 July 1994) was a Scottish painter, born in Glasgow.
[1] He won the Guthrie Award in 1938 with his work The Painters: McBryde and Colquhoun.
[4] Fleming studied at Jordanhill Teacher Training College; then taught at Glasgow School of Art.
[5] During the Second World War he was first a reserve policeman in Glasgow; and then joined the Pioneer Corps in their thrust from Normandy to Germany.
He then moved to Arbroath in 1948 as the warden of the Patrick Allan-Fraser Art College.
[4] Fleming was a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1947.
[7] A portrait of the artist is in the National Galleries of Scotland,[8] and another is in the RSA collection.