The celebratory exhibition is being staged as part of the annual Peebles Arts Festival and will look at work from the 1960s to the present day.

Born in Yugoslavia in 1922, Klein now regards himself as an adopted Scot and lives on the outskirts of Selkirk.

Always an enthusiastic painter, he was inspired by the broad brushstrokes of Kokoschka, an artist of Czech/ Austrian parentage, but in particular by the French impressionist Seurat, who deliberately broke his colours down into a pattern of dots which the human eye then reassembled.

Latterly his paintings became increasingly textural – thickly laden with paint and often incorporating pieces of woven textile into the work – and after retiring in 1992 he focused mainly on painting using his screen-printed polyester fabrics as the background to both his floral and abstract compositions.

Elizabeth Hume, Scottish Borders Council’s Visual Arts Officer, said: “Without realising it, people are greatly affected by colour in their everyday lives – from the clothes they choose to wear, everyday items they use in their homes, to the colour of the car they choose to buy.

Colour matters more to some than others, but it can richly enhance life just like good music and literature.

“What is inspirational about Bernat’s work is the way he puts colours together, achieving a brilliant balance using the full range of the colour spectrum and quite literally, as the title of one of his books says, he has ‘an eye for colour’.”

Paintings by Bernat Klein will be on display from Saturday until Friday, October 31 at Tweeddale Museum in Peebles.

The gallery is open Monday to Friday 10.30am-12.30pm and 1pm-4pm; Saturday 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm. There is no wheelchair access to the gallery. For more information, contact Elizabeth Hume on 01750 20096.