Renny Tait Chateau de Val, 2014

Edinburgh-based Renny Tait (b 1965) is renowned for distilling iconic historical and cultural landmarks to their bare geometry. Tait began his career as an abstract painter, and still approaches his work with an abstract artist's mentality, creating reductive paintings of cities and buildings to emphasise the intrinsic form. Trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, the Royal College of Art, London, and the British School in Rome, his practice aligns realism with minimalism, revealing the quiet poetry of architecture. Tait is also deeply conscious of the classic tradition of painting and looks to the Old Masters, most notably, Giovanni Bellini, Titian, and Poussin, for inspiration. 

Renny Tait is represented in public collections including the Royal College of Art and Tate, London