Nigel Grounds

Brought up on Skye, he attended Grays School of Art, Aberdeen graduating in 1986. Is primarily known for his landscape painting, and has numerous exhibitions including at the Rendezvous Gallery in 1991 where this work (ABDMS095766) was commissioned.

In 2024 he was owner of a studio gallery at Armadale in Skye.

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

BA (Hons's) Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen Art Gallery 1986.

Aberdeen Artists Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery 1986, 1987.

RSA Students Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh, 1985, 1986.

Romance Realism and Risk, Artspace, Aberdeen, 1986

The 3rd Gray's Degree Show, 1986.

New Generation in Scotland, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, 1986.

Scottish Drawing, Paisley Art Institute, 1987

Highland Open, Travelling Exhibition, 1988, 1989, 1990..

The Laing Exhibition, Talbot Rice Gallery,

University of Edinburgh, 1990.

Two-Person Shared Exhibition, Eden Court Theatre Art Gallery,

Inverness, 1990.

Highland Open 1990, Selected for Highland Regional Council

Purchase Scheme.

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, 1990.

The Rendezvous Gallery, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005,

2007, 2011, 2014, 2020, 2021

Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld, 1992, 1994.

Stenton Gallery, Stenton, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000.

Edinburgh Gallery, 1992.

The Royal Scottish Academy, 1993.

Colours Gallery, Edinburgh, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001.

Gallery, An Talla Dearg, Skye, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Highland Council

Robert Gordon University

Herriot Watt University

Aberdeen University

Clydesdale Bank

Royal Bank of Scotland

Paul Mellon Foundation

HRH the King

Aberdeen Asset Management

Aberdeen Maritime Museum