Painter, born in Scotland, who studied at Edinburgh School of Art, 1983–8, then Royal College of Art, 1988–90. Tait won a Rome Scholarship in Painting, British School at Rome, 1990–1. He gained a string of awards, latterly including David Murray Landscape Award and Elizabeth Greenshields Award, both 1990, and Royal Over-Seas League, 1997. Among Tait’s exhibitions were 1st Year Students at the Royal College in 1989 and Decade Ahead, at Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, in 1990. In that year he was a Flowers East Artist of the Day, chosen by Michael Rothenstein, having a solo show there in 1993. Further Flowers East one-man exhibitions followed, also Flowers West, Santa Monica, California, 2000, and Flowers Central, 2001. Tait was notable for his singularly coloured, atmospheric, uninhabited townscapes.