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John Byrne<\/strong> (born January 6<\/a>, find<\/a> 1940<\/a>) is a Scottish<\/a> artist<\/a> and playwright<\/a>.<\/p>\n Born a Catholic<\/a> in Paisley<\/a>, store<\/a> Byrne grew up in the Ferguslie Park<\/a> housing scheme and was educated at the town’s St Mirin’s Academy<\/a> before attending Glasgow School of Art<\/a> from 1958 to 1963. From 1964 until 1966 he designed jackets<\/a> for Penguin Books<\/a>. Following unsuccessful experiences with London<\/a> galleries, mind<\/a> he released a series of works from 1967 under the pseudonym of “Patrick”, an alleged self-taught painter of “faux-naif” images. These works began to meet with some success and his painting career commenced.<\/p>\n \n His work began to reach a wide audience, and he designed record covers for The Beatles<\/a>, Gerry Rafferty<\/a> and Billy Connolly<\/a>. Singer-songwriter Rafferty’s song Patrick<\/em> is written about Byrne (the lyrics begin: “Patrick my primitive painter of art\/You will always and ever be near to my heart”), and the pair co-wrote several songs together.<\/p>\n Byrne has written, designed and directed stage and screen productions, including The Slab Boys<\/a><\/em> (1978), Scotch & Wry<\/em> (1986) and Tutti Frutti<\/a><\/em> (1987), but he remains primarily a visual artist.<\/p>\n Recently, he illustrated Selected Stories<\/em> by James Kelman<\/a>, winner of the 1994 Booker Prize<\/a>. His work is held in major collections in Scotland and abroad. Several of his paintings hang in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery<\/a> in Edinburgh<\/a>, including portraits of Robbie Coltrane<\/a>, Billy Connolly<\/a>, his wife, actress Tilda Swinton<\/a>, and a self-portrait.<\/p>\n In 2004 he was made an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2006 Byrne was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the Robert Gordon University<\/a> Gray’s School of Art<\/a> in Aberdeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n He lives in Nairn<\/a> with his wife, actress<\/a> Tilda Swinton<\/a>, and their two children Xavier and Honor Byrne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Wikipedia John Byrne (born January 6, find 1940) is a Scottish artist and playwright. Born a Catholic in Paisley, store Byrne grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}