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John Burnett: John G C Burnett (1916-2010) was a painter of landscapes, figure subjects, and in his earlier years of works with a strong Surrealist influence, in both oil and watercolour. He studied at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and later became an art teacher in order to supplement his income from painting. During World War II he was based in southern England as an officer with responsibility for searchlights to help identify enemy aircraft, and during this period he painted a number of war pictures with searchlights featuring as major elements of the composition. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1945 (two paintings) and in the 1950s at the Royal Scottish Academy from addresses in Aberdeen and then in Banff. He lived in recent years in the north of England.