Bio
Randy Klinger, originally from New York, based in Findhorn, Scotland for 25 years. He has been an Artist since the age of 4. He has exhibited his drawings and paintings in New York, Italy, Germany, Japan and The Netherlands. He has been teaching art for 25 years, in the Moray Art Centre, which he built, in Findhorn (7 studios & 2 exhibition spaces, partnered with The British Museum), and at Edinburgh Drawing School. His mentor was Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich. Contact: randyklinger1956@gmail.com
My aim is to bring the viewer into contact with presence of another person; a 'perfect friend', a solid figure whose presence can be felt viscerally, so as they begin to gradually sense the person’s form, breathe, scent, heat, and thereby, their world, they will come to love them.
Teaching & Art Centre Director
1992-2007
Founder & Director, & Tutor, Moray Art Studio, Scotland
1997-Present
Founder & Director, & Tutor, Moray Art Centre, Scotland
1995-2000
Academic Programme Advisor and Adjunct Professor of Fine Art - Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A.
2002
Duff House, Banff, Scotland
1999
Kunst Zentrum Buz, Minden, Germany
1998
Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, Scotland
1997
Crawford Art Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland
1995
Galeria Spazioarte, Perugia, Italy
1995
Il Palazzo dei Priori (National Gallery of Umbria), Perugia, Italy
Education
1974 - 1978
Cooper Union
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours
Exhibitions
2016
Newave Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2013
Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherlands
2010
Moray Art Centre, Scotland
2008
Kyoto City International Centre, Japan
2007
Galleria La Torre, Milan, Italy
2006
Santa Marta, Varenna, Italy
2004
Galeria Spazioarte, Perugia, Italy