John Bellany (1942-2013)
Born in the fishing village of Port Seton in 1942. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the early ‘60s, and later attended the Royal College of Art in London. Much of his work focuses around ideas from Christianity and Calvinism, such as original sin, guilt, sex and death, often situating biblical figures into the settings of his home town and depicting normal human lives. His work is featured in major collections such as the MoMA, New York and Tate Britain.