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Ally Thompson Alasdair Neil Renwick Thompson (Ally Thompson), was a Scottish painter, who was of the New Glasgow Boys generation of painters, alongside Peter Howson, Ken Currie, Adrian Wisnieski and Steven Campbell. Born April 3rd 1955 Died January 21st 2016 Glasgow, Scotland Nationality	Scottish, British Education	Glasgow School of Art Known for	Painting Contents [hide] •	1 Early life •	2 Career •	3 References Early life[edit] He was born in Glasgow in 1955. He was brought up in Milngavie and in 1975 he began his studies at Glasgow School of Art, gaining a BA ( 1st Class Hons) in Fine Art. He also went on to gain a post graduate scholarship and a Travelling Scholarship from the Scottish Education Department. Later he began working as a tutor of drawing at the Glasgow School of Art and went on to hold several teaching posts within the West of Scotland. Thompson frequently exhibited at student shows during this time and in 1982 his work was selected by John Bellany for inclusion in the ‘Scottish Art Now’ exhibition in Edinburgh. In 1984 he held a joint exhibition with Peter Howson at the Glasgow School of Art Museum. His work was also seen that year at the Barbizon Scottish Society of Artists in Edinburgh. In 1989, he was given a solo exhibition at the Gallery in Glasgow, which was visited by the international art promoter Norbert Binotti. He brought Thompson to international prominence with a one-man show in New York and major exhibitions in both Paris and London.

Thompson subsequently lived and worked for a time in Provence in the 1990s. In 1997 his works were seen at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh and at the Glasgow Art Fair.

In 2011 the Braewell Gallery in Edinburgh held an extensive one-man show. Thompson’s pictures were also bought by many important collectors. These included the Picasso Collection, La Fondation de France and the CBS Collection in New York. Private collectors included Mme Danielle Mitterand, Bono, Bob Geldof and Petula Clark. In January 2019 a retrospective one man show held in his home town in Milngavie.

During his career, he painted in several distinctly different styles, from surrealist to abstract to expressionist landscape and much in between. He died in January 2016.

REFERENCES Glasgow Herald Obituary 	17/02/2016 The Scotsman Obituary		29/02/2016