Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Glasgow, Scotland, whose figure paintings sometimes had an unsettling element. Hosie graduated in drawing and painting from Edinburgh College of Art, 1980–5, gaining a postgraduate diploma in printmaking, 1986. His awards included Richard Ford Travelling Scholarship, RA, 1985; a George Jackson Hutchison Award and an Andrew Grant Major Award and Travelling Scholarship, all 1986; and a Royal Glasgow Institute Award, 1992. Group exhibitions included New Generation Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, 1986; Germinations, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseilles, and tour, 1987–8; opening exhibition of Raab Gallery, Millbank, 1989; and Art94 (Jill George Gallery), 1994. Had a solo show at Raab Gallery, 1987, later ones including Jill George Gallery from 1992.