Alastair Michie, RWA, FRBS (1921-2008) was an abstract painter, sculptor and designer, born at St Omer in France to Anne Redpath, one of the great Scottish painters, and brother of the painter David Michie, RSA. He studied architecture in the late 1930s at Edinburgh College of Art and during World War II he served as an RAF night-fighter pilot in reconnaissance aircraft over enemy occupied territory. After demobilisation from the RAF, Michie became a freelance graphic artist and undertook fashion design for leading magazines in London. In 1950 he settled in Wareham in Dorset, where he lived for many years. In the early 1960s he was greatly influenced by the American abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell and determined to change career and to become an abstract artist. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Scottish Academy, and was elected a member of the Royal West of England Academy 1982 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1994. His later paintings are mainly in acrylic and mixed media and demonstrate that he was a gifted colourist. Alastair Michie’s work is represented in the National Galleries of Scotland and other leading public galleries.