Robbie Bushe b. 1964

Robbie Bushe RSA is a Scottish-based painter known for intricately detailed, narrative-driven works that explore imagined cityscapes, speculative histories, and the layered social structures of contemporary life. His paintings often take the form of complex cross-sections—cutaway views of buildings, cities, and interior worlds—where multiple narratives unfold simultaneously across compressed spaces.

Bushe studied Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. His work draws on a wide range of visual sources, including comics and science fiction cinema, which he reworks into dense, multi-layered compositions. These paintings merge the real and the invented, blending personal memory with collective and fictional histories.

Central to his practice is an interest in how people inhabit constructed environments, both physical and psychological. The figures that populate his works are largely imagined, yet they reflect lived experience drawn from places he has known, including Liverpool, Aberdeenshire, Oxford, and Edinburgh. His paintings often evoke fragments of everyday observation—glimpsed interiors, transient encounters, and half-remembered spaces—assembled into expansive visual narratives.