Robin Philipson

Sir Robert (Robin) James Philipson RA PPRSA FRSE RSW (17 December 1916 – 26 May 1992) was an English-born painter who was influential within the Scottish art scene for over three decades.

On the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the King's Own Scottish Borderers and was posted to India, seeing action in Burma.

After the war, he returned to Edinburgh and became a lecturer at the College of Art in 1947, later taking the post of Head of the Drawing and Painting Department from 1960 to 1982.

He explores the subject in a manner reminiscent of Monet's earlier studies of Rouen Cathedral, creating a sense of grandeur by expressing the verticality of the gothic architecture and by showing the patterns of coloured light coming from the stained-glass windows.

Philipson received four honorary doctorates: DUniv (from both Stirling and Heriot Watt); LLD (from Aberdeen); and Dlitt (from Glasgow).