Philip Braham

RSA Select

Saturday 5th September - Saturday 24th October 2026

Lower and Upper Galleries

Philip Braham RSA is an artist whose interest in continental aesthetics informed his pedagogical role as Programme Director for Art and Philosophy at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. He was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 2021.

Philip Braham’s paintings recall the Northern Romantic tradition in which the landscape reflects aspects of the human condition.

Philip Braham

Fidelity to experience is fundamental to his practice, developing from a phenomenological immersion in the landscape that discloses nature as timeless and ever changing, and our mortal being as preciously short. Through rigorous observation and attention to the play of light on land, he senses a connection with nature such that it reflects thoughts, emotions, and memories, thereby establishing a relationship that bears a witness to Being in our turbulent times: an unfolding lived history in painting.

His career includes 26 solo exhibitions and numerous curated group exhibitions, and his artworks are held in public, corporate and private collections worldwide. Among the awards received are the RSA Guthrie Award for Painting, and RSA Morton Award for Lens-based Media.

Toward Monzievaird in the Rain

Philip Braham, 2024

Oil on linen

60 x 80 cm

The Sleep of Winter

Philip Braham, 2025

Oil on linen

60 x 84 cm

The Poet of the Moor Returns Philip Braham, 2024

Oil on linen
89 x 130 cm

The Art Galleries at Gairloch Museum are free to visit and open 10am - 5pm, Mondays - Saturdays.

If you wish to purchase work by this artist, please use the contact details below. We can accept payment at the Museum or are equally happy to invoice and take payment by bank transfer. At the end of the exhibition, the Museum will help to arrange delivery or collection of your artwork. When a cost is incurred, this is passed on to the buyer. Within Scotland, we usually manage to deploy our “informal” art delivery network at no cost.