David Michie
David Michie OBE, RSA, PSSA, FRSA, RGI was a distinguished Scottish artist of international stature.
The third son of the architect and painter James Beattie Michie, and the renowned Scottish artist Anne Redpath, he was born in 1928 in SaintRaphal, in the Var dpartement in the south of France. David was the younger brother of the painter and sculptor Alastair Michie, His father had a position there as private architect to Charles Thomson, a wealthy American, and the Michie family lived in the boathouse of his villa, the Chateau Gloria. After Charles Thomson suffered losses in the Crash of 1929, the decline in his fortunes eventually brought an end to the Michie familys life there, and in 1934 David returned with his mother and brothers to Hawick, his mothers home town in the Scottish Borders. From the age of six he attended primary school at Hawick, before going on to Hawick High School.
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