Ian McKenzie Smith

Ian McKenzie Smith, CBE FRSA RFSE PPRSA HRA HRHA, (1935-2025). Studied at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen and was later the Director at Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, and City of Aberdeen Arts and Recreation Officer (1968-1996). His work displays a continuing commitment to a distinctly personal brand of landscape based abstraction: a subtle evocative way of painting that looks to Eastern traditions, as well as the American colour-field painters of the 1950’s.