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Painter, designer, muralist and teacher whose pictures included atmospheric landscapes using expressive brushstrokes, as in his canvas Green Sea, East Coast, included in The Caledonian Show III, The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton, 2001. Healey studied under John Cunningham at school and at the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1970s, winning the Haldane Travelling Scholarship and the Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship to America. After graduating he lived in Rio de Janeiro as an artist and freelance designer, producing a range of work for Brazilian government agencies. Returned to Glasgow in the early 1980s where he became senior lecturer at Glasgow School of Art until 1997 when he resigned to paint full-time. Exhibited widely in Britain and America, including Thompson’s Marylebone, 2003.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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