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Philip Braham's landscape paintings go beyond just a portrayal of the natural world. Rooted in the Romantic tradition, Braham's work is infused with the allegorical and the sublime.
His 'Gathering Storm at the River's Bend' was painted to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge; a famous victory for Wallace over the English army. The view depicts the view towards Stirling Castle from the Wallace monument. As Braham puts it;"the image made me look at the flow of history". It represents the recent upsurge in nationalist politics in Scotland. It is more than a landscape."There is however no sense ofthe nostalgic in his paintings". Braham is out to explore the essence and mood of the natural world and the intense feelings that it can provoke when viewed. Often travelling to different parts of Scotland to paint, Braham believes this narrative aspect of his work to be all important. Braham is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and is now based in Edinburgh. He has exhibited widely in Britain, and abroad. |
|  | WILLIAM MARSHALL BROWN (1863 - 1936). Click on the image to get full description
Born in Edinburgh, this distinguished Scottish artist is best known for his figurative work, although he also painted landscapes and still-lifes. His figurative work is said to be very atmospheric.
He trained at Edinburgh College of Art and at the Royal Scottish Academy's Life School whilst working as a wood engraver and book illustrator. He won the Chambers Bursary and Stewart Prize and subsequently was awarded the bronze medal for anatomical studies in South Kensington.
His work is held in many museums including the City of Edinburgh Collection, The Harrogate Art Gallery and The Kirkcaldy Art Gallery. The Royal Scottish Academy Collection contains his Diploma work "A Breton Washing Pool" and "Washing Volendam"
The original of this painting was bought by one of our director's grandfather from the artist in the 1920's. It hung in her grandmother's house all through her childhood and was always a family favourite.
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Dorothy Bruce was born in Wisconsin, gaining her Bachelor of Art in Fine Art from the Minneapolis School of Art, now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
She traveled extensively in the States and Australia, participating in Group Shows, before holding a one-woman exhibition in Brisbane, Australia.
The paintings of Dorothy Bruce portray her love for her now adopted country. The passionately painted landscapes show the wild and often lonely side of the Scottish countryside. The windswept beaches, the lonely glens and the barren moors are all beautifully portrayed within the paintings of this talented artis
During these years her work has been seen at one-woman shows on the West Coast, Glasgow,and Edinburgh, and Group Exhibitions throughout Scotland, including the Royal Society for Painters in Watercolours.
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KELLY-ANNE CAIRNS was born in Lancaster 1975 and studied painting at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. After graduating in 1999 with a BA (Hons) she was awarded the John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence. She was accepted for the BP Portrait Award exhibition in 1999 and has continued to paint with much success ever since. She exhibits regularly in London, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow selling her work worldwide. The author J.K.Rowling is among her many private collectors. Kelly-Anne currently works part-time as an arts tutor and shares a studio with her artist husband, Stephen Shankland. Her main sources of inspiration are aged frescos of Italian Renaissance painters, Geisha and Oriental style, and the design and texture of fabrics. Described as "accomplished and powerful" and "a modern Klimt" The Herald, Kelly-Anne describes her work as portraying the human form and emotions. "I manipulate the figure and its surroundings by exploring the contrasts between the angular shapes surrounding the figure and the soft contours of the body."
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Ian Elliot was born in Glasgow in 1946. By the time he attended Glasgow School Of Art in 1964, the young Ian had already won several medals for his art. Like many of today's successful Scottish contemporary artists, when he graduated from the Glasgow School of Art he took up a career teaching art and subsequently became Head of Art and Design at a large Glasgow school.
In 1997 Ian decided to focus full time on painting. Since becoming a full time artist he has quickly gained a reputation for his strong use of colour whether depicting his native Scotland or the Mediterranean. In 2003 Ian was a finalist in a worldwide competition held by International Artist Magazine. As Ian says, 'Travelling extensively throughout the Scottish farmlands, an endless fascination for the Tuscan countryside and regular visits to my pied a terre on the island of Mallorca have provided me with endless land and seascape material creating shimmering colours, distinctive buildings and abstract expressionistic vistas.'
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It has been said that the contribution of J.D. Fergusson (1874-1961) to Scottish art in the 20th Century is almost unparalleled. There were only a few artists acknowledged to be part of the explosion of talent which was seen in Paris in the first decade of this century, and J D Fergusson was one of these. J D Fergusson was born and brought up in Leith, Edinburgh, where Art from Scotland is based, but much of his work was executed in France. He was drawn to the cafe society of Paris and rubbed shoulders with the young Matisse and Picasso. He was also a friend of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and it is believed that Fergusson encouraged Mackintosh to paint.
Fergusson met Anne Estelle Rice (1879 - 1959) in 1906 with whom he shared a close relationship until 1914. Anne Estelle Rice was an artist of Irish American stock from Philadelphia. Fergusson painted a portrait of her in oriental dress placed against a flowered backcloth of roses. The simplicity of the costume and pose permitted an emphasis on colour outlined in blue or red. The decorative background reflects the sitter rather than detracting from it, a Fauvist principle. Fergusson spent many summers at the resort of Paris-Plage where the quality of clear light on land and water increased the tonality of his work. Colour was used to heighten atmosphere. Fergusson became a Societaire of the Salon d'Automne.
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Michael Forbes is an extremely accomplished painter, as is clear from even a cursory examination of his work. Forbes was born and brought up in a village in the extreme north of the Scottish Highlands, and has been granted access to a poetic world all the more remarkable, given his isolation. It is not always a comfortable world. There is a deal of tension and of alienation in the strange events taking place in the landscape of his imagination. From an early age Michael Forbes had an overwhelming urge to paint. Now an entirely self-taught full-time artist, Forbes's paintings are an extraordinary visual record of his thoughts and dreams. Often journeying into the subconscious, Forbes's work shows a magical and playful, dream-like world.laced with humour. "I had to hook the viewer with something humourous and then slowly they see the darker side"; explains Forbes.
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Peter Goodfellow is an English artist who fell in love with Scotland. Fortunately his wife was also captivated by this country and has a great understanding of his consuming passion. The viewer of his landscapes sees this passion at a glance. The vibrant colours are arresting and the mood which is set can bring a lump to the throat.
Inspired by art movements as far reaching as the early Italian Renaissance and German Expressionism, Peter Goodfellow's paintings divine a rich artistic heritage. Living in a remote glen in North East Scotland, Goodfellow paints both figurative and landscape works. For Goodfellow, colour is the all important ingredient in his oils and water-colours.
He declares himself to be an 'out and out colourist', and often paints the same subject repeatedly to distil colour and form. "Raw colour can capture a sense of time and create a sense of mood and atmosphere" believes Goodfellow. Often looking to the landscape as a subject matter for his paintings, Goodfellow deftly describes through his rich vocabulary of colour the extraordinary beauty and power of the natural world.
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Aliisa Hyslop is now widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic particularly since her work was featured in "Radiance", a US magazine for the larger woman. However, Hyslop, who does not fall into the category of "the larger woman", explains the scale of the figures she paints in a different way. "I don't see them as fat," she says. "They are big because my paintings are about feelings and the soul and I think the soul is immense - and it's almost like they're ready to burst".
Hyslop has painted semi-professionally since she settled in Edinburgh after graduating from Portsmouth School of Art in 1981 and has been painting full-time since 1995. From a creative family of mixed Scottish and Finnish parenthood Hyslop has drawn on family folk-lore and childhood memories of visits to relatives in the forests of south east Finland to developed her own unique style of communication. The Finnish strength of character and silent fortitude come across in her paintings, as does the stillness of the seasons in that northern woodland country. "I'm drawn to the melancholy, the darker side," she says. "Sometimes pictures, like music, express things that cannot be expressed in words". The end product of her artistic expression depicts characters set in a dreamlike limbo somewhere between reality and imagination-a timeless, never ending play of great depth and warmth.
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Charles Jamieson is one of the especially gifted. Whilst a student of art at Glasgow School of Art he began acting and gained his equity card before graduating from Glasgow School of Art. He has followed both muses, sometimes acting, sometimes painting and when not doing either will be found teaching art. Jamieson leads the life of a rennaissance intellectual, almost casually, so it seems, drifting from acting to painting to film producing. Jamieson's profound love of travel has left him with a soft spot for Greece, which he revisits frequently. Simple village and coastal scenes appeal to lovers of the Aegean and to those who only aspire to visit.
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Sakina Jones is a painter who has a passion for painting animals. She not only paints domestic cats, sometimes she enjoys painting their larger relations.
Sakina Jones painted a series of four cats, all of whom belonged to friends." I know these cats. They all had personalities. It was a real pleasure to paint them"
"Sinatra" is named after "old blue eyes" himself. It is obvious that this elegant Siamese is very sure of its place in the world.
As for Guinness, with this colouring what else could this cat be called? This print is an ideal present for cat lovers and Guinness lovers equally.
The ubiquitous black cat reminds many cat lovers of their own pet. Sakina still giggles a little when she recalls this cat," His expression made me laugh and I was compelled to record it" Sakina Jones admits that this cat "is a cat with attitude". Of the four in the series this one has the most to say for itself.
In "Cat on a Hot Pink Rug" whilst the cat is not Elizabeth Taylor, there is no doubt that starring in a Tennessee William's play would appeal to its sense of drama!
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Trevor Jones was born in British Columbia, Canada and immigrated to Scotland in 1999 at the age of 28. Following completion of the Leith School of Art foundation year he was accepted into the 5 year Master of Fine Art program studying drawing and painting at ECA while specialising in Scottish art history at the University of Edinburgh. After graduating with distinction, he began work as Assistant Director for the Edinburgh based charity Art in Healthcare.
Trevor’s creative process is one of continuous discovery as the main point of reference is the constantly shifting characteristics of the painting itself. Sourcing nature for forms, patterns and structure the picture develops organically and intuitively, even arbitrarily at times. The expressive and varied application of media, texture and extensive mark making come together to create evocative, abstract compositions representing the eternal struggle between chaos and harmony, disorder and order, the natural world and the manmade.
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Diana Leslie's mother's friend wrote a small book of poems which Diana illustrated with small etchings. One of these etchings inspired her to paint the larger oil paintings from which this print is taken. The opening line of the poem is:- "Vera loves Jesus with a passion thats true"
The poem then goes on to tell Vera that there are real men out there and "to get a life"! .
Diana is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art.
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Stephen Mangan was born in 1964 and obtained a BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. He has exhibited at numerous galleries in Scotland and his work is in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has a particular view of the world taking the viewer sometimes into a secret hidden place.
Describing his work, Mangan says, ”The process of looking for the pictures begins with sitting at the harbour, going to a race-meeting or sitting in a bar - waiting and looking for things to appear. I will take a sketchbook and occasionally a camera. Mostly I want a feeling for the place to sink in - this will provide me with as much information as any drawings I make.”
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Angus McEwan's paintings are intriguingly eclectic. Incorporating landscapes with still lifes and often making reference to his travels abroad, McEwan's works have a touch of surreality to them. A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, McEwan is a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-colour.
"I try and put a bit of mystery in, giving my paintings a bit of a twist" says McEwan, whose painting 'The Minister's Desk portrays the belongings found in the study of a Scottish minister. Currently exploring colour, McEwan is an admirer of the work of Scottish artist, Alberto Morrocco and the Italian Surrealist, de Chirico. A recent recipient of the Salvesen Art Scholarship, McEwan spent the award travelling and working in China for ten weeks. The trip, feels McEwan, "has offered further inspiration to his work as he continues to paint something unusual that turns truth on its head and makes people stop and ask 'what is this?"
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Graham H D McKean's work is curiously magical. From beach bathers to sailors and clowns, his paintings emit an air of intrigue. Painted in vibrantly coloured oils there is also an element of the surreal which immediately engages the viewer. His works have been likened to that of Peter Howson, Beryl Cook and Stanley Spencer. Born on the west coast of Scotland, McKean originally trained as a graphic artist and in 1995 turned to painting professionally. His work immediately proved immensely popular, selling out at The Leith Gallery, and at London's Contemporary Art Fair.
McKean's works are held in both private and corporate collections throughout Europe and the USA.
Graham McKean likes people and they therefore become the main inspiration for his work. Although his work is known for its humour, he paints with the utmost seriousness and total sincerity, his creativity being fuelled from his imagination.
McKean believes in artistic independence whilst maintaining a strong attachment to the craft of painting. "My subject matter is a mixture of natural observation and experience. I merge imagination with reality."
McKean is driven to communicate. "I want to paint pictures which convey emotion. In a sense all my paintings are autobiographical statements, expressions of my own life. Success for me is being able to produce a painting which can communicate intimately with the viewer."
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Louis Sinclair McNally's passion is painting townscapes and landscapes. Often the scene sets are from a variety of different subjects drawn together for the purpose of creating an artistic whole.
With his landscapes McNally takes a particular view and stylises it to meet his own impressions. Well known vistas are thus transformed into something which the viewer beholds and warms to, but which would not necessarily bear comparison with a photographic image. Such is the influence of his art that it can tease and sublimely satisfy at one and the same time.
The buildings McNally paints have a solidity and a three dimensional quality to them which gives the impression of a living being. In all that he paints light plays a fundemental role as does the consequential shadow. Louis is a graduate of Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
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Ian McWhinnie was born in Glasgow in 1952. He studied at Glasgow School of Art 1970-74. After graduating he taught in Glasgow secondary schools, specialising in ceramics. He has been painting full time since 2004.
His subject matter is taken from a range of ideas, including performers, the circus, musicians and images from travels, particularly France and Italy.
He exhibits regularly throughout the UK, both in galleries and at art fairs.
Recent awards have been the Morton Fraser Award, Visual Arts Scotland, 2004 and the Millers Prize, Paisley Art Institute, 2006.
His work is held in private collections in USA, Italy, Argentina, France, Spain, Switzerland and Australia.
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Born in Glasgow and now living in Ayrshire, James Orr studied part-time at Glasgow School of Art under John Boyd RGI and has painted full time for a number of years, developing a distinctive style. Working in acrylics, his landscapes have a fluency, an immediacy and bold colours. He exhibits regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and the Paisley Art Institute. He exhibits widely within the UK and has had exhibitions at the Forbes Gallery, and at Art Expo, both in New York, the Hilton Hotel - Hong Kong and at the Galerie Centrale Brussels. His work is held in the collections of HRH Duke of Edinburgh, Lord and Lady MacFarlane, Touche Ross Ltd along with Kyle and Carrick Council. He received the Royal College of Physicians Award at the RGI in 1997 |
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Deborah Phillips was born in Dundee in 1965 and first exhibited work at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art at the age of 14. She attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and graduated with BA (honours) in 1987. Following graduation she took up the post of Merchandise Designer with the National Trust for Scotland. A similar post with Historic Scotland followed. Her design work has been featured in several leading women's magazines. She also worked with an international art and craft materials company demonstrating products at leading art fairs. Deborah now concentrates on painting in acrylics
Deborah says, " I enjoy all aspects of creating a painting, from going out into the the stunning Scottish countryside to collect reference material, priming the board on which I will paint, squeezing paint from the tubes and watching it glisten on the palette, holding the well-used brushes, mixing the squelchy colour and applying it in swathes, varnishing, framing and then seeing the finished article on a gallery wall - every stage gives me a thrill."
She exhibits extensively throughout Scotland, England and Ireland. Her work can be found in many collections including Wright Health Group, Bank of Scotland, Cairn Energy, Marks and Spencer, Princess Ysenburg von Budingen, Germany, Lady Fraser, Tayside Police and Standard Life.
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Sheila Macleod Robertson is often likened to the Scottish Colourists. She is fired by a desire to communicate the full intensity of colour found in the natural world, a task to which she believes the palette of oil colours is more suited than the camera, which, she says; "Doesn't capture the range of colour that the human eye can see. A photograph never gets the colour right". Robertson has exhibited in the United States, Sweden and Japan.
The ever changing light in Scotland can pose a challenge to artists. Sheila McLeod Robertson finds that she sometimes paints in watercolour as many as twenty or so small sketches which will help her finish her oil painting back at her studio. "The tide coming in or out can transform a beach so that the scene you start with is quickly replaced. Sometimes that can create a more interesting view and my canvas will reflect that change. At other times I prefer the original aspect and I then refer to my watercolour sketches."
Sheila McLeod Robertson is a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Not only does she exhibit at their London exhibition each summer, she also gives master classes. Sheila, now in her seventies, is not content with attending in a teaching capacity, she often sits in on other artist's classes. She says, "You are never too old to learn something new. Life would be very boring if we stopped learning"
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Robert Saunders graduated from Glasgow Shool of Art on 1972. He has exhibited internationally. His work is a brillaintly coloured evocation of exotic places and beautiful settings. Elegant ladies set in a stylish location are his hallmark. "Drama Queen, "Ooh, La La!", "Before the Rendezvous" and "Salsa Night" are a series of four. Body language lets the viewer understand all without a word being spoken Are these ladies French? Perhaps the angle of the hat or just the coquettish expressions!
He has recently embarked on a series of small paintings where the decorative skills of other artists are celebrated. Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper are the first ceramic designers whose pieces Robert has chosen to depict.
They are typical of Robert's still lifes, where he uses deft, fast flowing brush strokes. These prints show his superb painting skills and could never be mistaken for a manufacturer's catalogue illustration.
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James Somerville graduated for Edinburgh College of Art in the late 50's where he specialised in design and in particular wood engraving, a small scale meticulous form of print making demanding of skill, technique and a sound basis of good draghtmanship. Throughout his 30 year career in teaching he comtinued to exhibit and ten year's ago he took the oppportunity to retire early and paint full time. He now tends to show mainly with The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh but also contributes to other galleries in Scotland and a select few in England.
He has taken much of his inspiration from the countryside and architecture of his native land, particluarly in Fife. However he travels to Spain on a regular basis and many of his paintings are of the interior regions of Spain.
The paintings themselves always come from things seen, although the end results are not slavish copies of what has been seen. Some verge on being abstract. They are more concerned with feelings, moods, emotions and reactions to the different aspects of the visual world.
Dramatic viewpoints, strong shapes, contrasts and linear movement typify his work
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Born in Edinburgh in 1957, Gill attended schools both in Edinburgh and Penicuik. After leaving school Gill trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee 1979-1981. This was followed a year later by a post graduate course in art therapy at St Albans School of Art and latterly she trained as a Social Worker in Edinburgh. From 1993-1999 Gill lectured part-time on the foundation art therapy course at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh. This was in addition to her post as a manager in a Social Work day centre for adults with learning disabilities. Gill has specialised in watercolours of mainly flowers, still life and landscapes, which have been exhibited throughout the U.K. She has also received a number of commissions to design greeting cards for various card companies. |
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Lisa Smith has exhibited widely in the UK and her original work is much sought after.
If art were edible, Smith would surely be a gourmet chef as her subject matter tantalises the viewer's tastebuds and leaves them wishing the exquisitely executed image were real. A favourite with foodies the world over, her work is precise in detail and rich in composition. Larger than life fruit and vegetables are the preferred subject matter for this talented artist.
Lisa graduated from Glasgow School of Art, BA(Hons) Fine Art in 1991.
Among her awards are; Elizabeth Greenshields Award, Montreal, Canada 2000; The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Award Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts 2002; The Armour Award, R.G.I. 2004 and The Paisley Art Institute Award
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Paul Telford's paintings explore a silent world. Handling oil paint with delicate precision, Telford's still lifes evoke an intriguing timelessness. In 'Still Life with Green Apples' he captures not only the form of the glistening fruit but also an essence of something more eternal. "It's not about the object" says Telford,"but about other things: silence, stillness and emptiness".
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An admirer of 17th century artists of Dutch interiors and in particular Vermeer, together with 20th century artists Edward Hopper and Mark Rothko, Telford mines a rich artistic tradition.
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, this young artist is making a name for himself. Telford is held in the collections of serious collectors in the UK and US.
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Alastair W Thomson trained at Glasgow School of Art. He is a regular exhibitor at The Royal Glasgow Institue for the Fine arts and has exhibited internationally for many years. A very senior Scottish artist, Thomson spent most of his career either teaching or painting landscapes.
In recent times he has turned his hand to interiors of residences, bars and restaurants.Alastair's interiors are "initmate moments in time" captured on canvas.
His work is held in corporate collections in the UK and in private collections throughout the world
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Alastair Fiddes Watt was born in Paris in 1954. He attened Manchest University and Manchester School of Art from 1972 to 1977. When he returned to Scotland in 1987, he found the varied landscape of East Lothian with its hills, woods and coast line awe-inspiring. He spent much time sketching what he saw before him building up a kind of case-book, as he describes it, of his new surroundings. Fiddes Watt's landscapes luxuriate with colour; his skies are intense and the distant vista of hills mottled with greys and blues. He captures that peculiarly Scottish luminosity of light and frequently travels to the north west Highlands to paint. Fiddes Watt continues to take his inspiration from the natural world showing how the landscape can change moment by moment. Fiddes Watt has a masterly use of colour. He can capture on one hand the extraordinary as shown in Annat Red and on the other the subtle changes that the light can bring in Squall over Annat. His work is held in many collections including:Granada TV, London Borough of Hackney, Archives Department, United Distillers, Bank of Scotland Properties, Bank of Scotland Head Office, Stirling Festival, Edinburgh and Lothian Fire Brigade, BP Oil, Clydesdale Bank, National Trust For Scotland, Saltoun Classic Car Collection, East Lothian Tourist Board, BP Shipping, Blue Circle Cement, The Caravan Club, Conoco (UK) Ltd., Ernst and Young CA, Lagavulin Distillery, East Lothian Council, Ethical Investments, City Inns Glasgow and Birmingham, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Heriot-Watt University, Gaia Architects, Standard Life, London and Edinburgh Inns. |
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James Watt's paintings capture life on the waterfront. From vast ocean-going vessels to small fishing boats, Watt has been inspired by a lifetime living near to Scotland's famed river, the Clyde. Painting in oil, his paintings of the last few decades have become a pictorial record of Scotland's ship-building and coastal history.
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A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, Watt is an immensely successful artist. His paintings are to be found in numerous public collections and the private collections of Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Philip.
Watt always paints outside and from life. This he believes gives his work a spontaneity and enables him to catch the nuances of Scottish light. Watt has long had an intense interest in light and its play on colour. "I am not a sunshine painter; I like the northern light, skies and the Scottish winter light can give an unreal atmosphere", explains Watt who has explored and painted the landscape in the outer reaches of Scotland. He usually spends each summer painting on the Faroe Islands. James Watt has been described as a Modern Impressionist. The fluid brush strokes and love of colour are hallmarks of his work. He is often asked why no people appear in his paintings. " I used to include the people who were working on the boats or harbours but I found that they distracted the eye from the ships and boats I wanted to feature so I simply stopped including the people"
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Scott Waugh, a Glasgow School of Art graduate, has exhibited globally including The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York. A talented musician Waugh, who also produces figurative work, brings his own collection of instruments to life in paint.Waugh's subject matter tends to focus on still lifes which can be as varied as suits of armour to a plain tea towel. A realist, and owing largely to attention to detail, Waugh's work is strong in atmosphere. The final result is a superbly finished and remarkably lifelike piece.
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Christopher Wood RSW trained at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with an Honours degree in Drawing & Painting in 1984. He has been a full-time professional artist since his first one-man exhibition in Edinburgh 1987.
His awards include: The Glasgow Art Club Fellowship (RSW 2005);The Armour Award (RGI 1994)
and The James Torrance Memorial Award (RGI 1993)
His work is held in the collections of: the Bank of Scotland, United Distillers, Edinburgh University, Lennox Lewis, The Demarco European Foundation, MacRoberts Solicitors, Premier Property Group, Phoenix Equity Partners, Petro-Canada London (temporary) and many other private and corporate collections around the world.
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Marie Louise Wrightson graduated in 2004 with a BA (Hons), Fine Art, Drawing and Painting, from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland. She continued there completing her MFA in 2005
She has exhibited widely in the Uk and is held in collections such as St Andrews Museum, St Andrews, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, (TV Cook, Presenter), 612 Air Transportable Surgical Squadron, Scotland.
In 2007 she won the Pittenweem Arts Festival Bursary.
“I see myself primarily as a realist still life oil painter, who uses an eclectic mix of objects & imagery to express interests, passions & memories from my own life.
Many of my works are also inspired by memories from my childhood, such as trips to the seaside, colourful sweets, fairground amusements & visits to my grandparents. Such memories are incorporated with figurative form to create a visual self portrait comprised of past moments & treasured memories. I am deeply fascinated by the way an object, photograph, sight or sound can enable myself & someone to travel back to a place and time with ease as if only a short space of time had elapsed”.
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Georgie Young is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art. In the past she has concentrated on predominantly Scottish subjects but, more recently, the hills and plains of the North and South of Spain have also featured in her work. Colour plays an essential role in all of Young's paintings and her prints are classic examples of her clever use of colour. Deeply inspired by the surrounding landscape, Young's work portrays the many facets of the countryside,verging on the abstract her landscapes are bold, vivid and harmonious.
Her work aims to evoke a feeling and capture a sense of place, an atmosphere or an unexpected detail rather than reproduce a direct likeness. The paintings are a product of observation, interpretation and improvisation: the original observation is processed, re-examined and the essence abstracted.
"When Young paints, she paints with a burst of energy." - The Scotsman
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