THE YEARS were rolled back for a student of James McIntosh Patrick yesterday when he had the chance to view his late tutor’s work.

Ian Imrie, of Bridge of Earn, held his teacher in such affection and high esteem that after his death he acquired various items from the artist’s Dundee studio, including his easel and paint-spattered stool.

Yesterday the easel once again held a work by McIntosh Patrick.

Auctioneer Lindsay Burns, a friend of Mr Imrie, took the picture along to his studio to let him have a close look at the work—Wheat Stooks, Carse Of Gowrie.

The picture, which will be sold by Mr Burns on September 11, is one of five works by McIntosh Patrick in the sale.

Painted in 1966, it carries a pre-sale estimate of £10,000 to £15,000.

“I like this picture, the perspective and the composition,” said Mr Imrie, who studied at Duncan of Jodanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1961 to 1965 when McIntosh Patrick was lecturing.

“He was a real gentleman, he always had an unfinished painting in the back of the car which he would ask our opinion of.”

Best known as an antique dealer for 40 years, Mr Imrie is hoping that his own work as an artist will lead to a one-man exhibition next year when he turns 70.

With the backing of businessmen, including Mr Burns and Stagecoach boss Brian Souter, moves are under way to have the exhibition mounted in Perth.

Mr Imrie is a member of the Portrait Society of America and recently had a self-portrait hung at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition in London.

The McIntosh Patrick painting will be sold at Lindsay Burns auction house in King Street on September 11. It can be viewed next Saturday, Sunday and Monday.