John Paul Raine

John Paul Raine has exhibited his paintings in the Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Gallery Heinzel, The Lost Gallery, The Riverside Gallery, Eion Stewart Fine Art, the Whitehouse Gallery and in the Aberdeen Artists annual exhibition.

Along with Charles Birnie, he was a founder member of the Traditional and Decorative Arts Group, which put on an exhibition in Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1992. A fellow exhibitor and supporter of this project was Malcolm Appleby, the world renowned silver engraver. The exhibition received excellent reviews in the national press and was featured on television’s North Tonight programme.

He has lectured in life drawing on an ad hoc basis at Aberdeen College, and was for ten years the art teacher at Roervig Folkehoejskolen in Denmark.