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Cheyne, Ian Alec J
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Born on 5 October, 1895, Ian Alec J Cheyne was the son of Forbes Cheyne of Macduff, Banff (born 1851) and his wife Florence Gertrude Cockshott (born ca. 1865 in England). The 1901 census records that Forbes worked for the Inland Revenue and the family lived at that time in Clevelands, Glenburn Road in Bearsden. This was Ian's home address throughout his time at the GSoA, where he first enrolled in 1911. Prior to this date he had been a pupil at The Glasgow Academy. In his first year, Ian studied Drawing and Painting with Alexander Jackson and David Forrester Wilson. He continued to enrol each year for the same course until the 1923-1924 session, studying for 13 years in total. Awarded his Diploma in 1917, he first exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1918 and continued to show work there regularly until 1955, the year of his death. He also exhibited at the RSA from 1910 to 1955. Early in his career, he exhibited mainly watercolours, but during the 1930s and 1940s, became particularly interested in coloured woodcuts. He was a founder member of the Society of Artist Printmakers and became very successful in this medium, exhibiting widely throughout the UK and also in Toronto and Chicago, where he was awarded one of the principal prizes. Influenced by Japanese woodcuts, it has been suggested that his work also shows a knowledge of the work of the French etcher and artist Jean-Emile Laboureur, and has an Art Deco quality. Examples of his work can be found in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Hunterian and the City of Edinburgh Collection. In 1935, Ian Cheyne was a Visitor/Examiner at GSoA and an External Assessor for Commercial Art. He was joined in this role by his wife Jessie Isobel Cheyne (nee Garrow, born 1899), who was also a successful artist and engraver, RSA and GSoA alumni.
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Sources: ancestory.com; Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture; RSA Exhibitors 1828-1990; haji-b.blogspot.com
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