EDINBURGH.- The Royal Scottish Academy has recently administered four awards totaling £21,000 to artists in Scotland. These awards are given by the RSA on behalf of the individual benefactors and trusts in keeping with the primary aim of the RSA: to encourage and support artists. The awards form part of the RSA’s annual awards programme and each award is presented annually. The RSA announced the winners of the following four awards: · The Alastair Salvesen Art Scholarship (£12,000) awarded to Heather Ross. · The Morton Award for lens based media (£5000) awarded to Christine Borland. · The Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2000) awarded to Geri Loup Nolan. · The William Littlejohn Watercolour Award (£2000) awarded to Jean Duncan. Heather Ross (b. Glasgow 1983) studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen before becoming artist in residence at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen. Her award-winning proposal pr