The Harry and Margery Boswell Art Collection: Artworks

June Redfern (born 1951)

Early Morning Mist, 1994

Etching

June Redfern was born in St Andrews, Fife. She studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1968 to 1972. Her solo exhibition, 'Real Lives' in 1981 at the Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, exhibited realist paintings influenced by her teaching experience in the 1970s in a school in Leith.

She taught at Cardiff College of Art from 1983 to 1985. Later in 1985 she became Artist-in-Residence at the National Gallery, London. Her paintings from this period were exhibited at the Gallery in 1986. She has been a visiting tutor in many art colleges in Britain and was the guest artist at the University of Minnesota in 1986.

This dynamic image is of a horse and rider emerging from a fragmented background.

June Redfern, Early Morning Mist, 1994.