Scottish Art

Jolomo Exhibition – The Isles of the Hebrides – 5th – 19th June 2021

John Lowrie Morrison OBE – Jolomo Exhibition The Isles of the Hebrides VIEW HERE Jolomo – John Lowrie Morrison OBE is one of Scotland’s best loved artists. His high key paintings will transport you to some of the most beautiful and captivating landscapes in the world. John distills the vivid colours in these landscapes on to canvas in his unique style. Jolomo paintings capture not only the colour of the west coast of Scotland but also the immediate presence, the atmosphere, the light and grandeur of the landscape. Their impression will stay with you long after, much like a visit to this beautiful part of the world. It is easy to see why Jolomo paintings resonate with regular visitors to the Scottish Highlands and Islands and why they become such cherished reminders. VIEW FULL EXHIBITION HERE NOW Sat 5th June - Sat 19th June 2021 EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL SAT 26th June This year the exhibition will be held online only The full exhibition of original paintings by John Lowrie Morrison is available on the website now. The artist [...]

By |2021-06-21T09:46:26+01:00June 7th, 2021|Exhibitions, Scottish Art, Event, Art|0 Comments
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Scotland’s Greatest Ever Artists

Scotland's Greatest Ever Artists by Sunday Times On Sunday 31st May The Sunday Times published an article with the headline  'SCOTLAND'S GREATEST EVER ...' The Lists covered Culture in Scotland from Authors & Actors to Film & Bands and Comedians & Artists … all the Best Ever. Here is its list of Scotland's Greatest Ever Artists:- 1      Charles Rennie Mackintosh 2      Henry Raeburn 3      SJ Peploe 4      JD Fergusson 5      Joan Eardley 6      Jack Vettriano 7      Eduardo Paolozzi 8      Alison Watt 9      Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh 10    John Lowrie Morrison 
 Congratulations John, you are in fine company, a well deserved accolade. View John's latest exhibition - The Isles of the Hebrides here

By |2021-06-07T10:04:53+01:00June 5th, 2020|Scottish Art, Art|0 Comments
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Joan Eardley RSA

Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was born near Warnham, Sussex in 1921 the daughter of dairy farmers. Her younger sister, Patricia,  was born in 1922 and died in 2013. Their father had been  wounded in a gas attack in WW1 and subsequently suffered a mental breakdown and when Joan was nine he took his own life. In 1939 Joan’s mother, who was Scottish, moved with the two girls to Glasgow and in 1940 Joan enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art where she studied under Hugh Adam Crawford. In 1943 she was awarded a diploma in Drawing and Painting, and won the Sir James Guthrie Prize for Portraiture. After spending some time at Hospitalfield Art School studying under James Cowie she travelled on a scholarship to France and Italy. Joan Eardley set up a studio in Glasgow near the deprived Townhead area, and she became well known for her sympathetic, but not sentimental, highly individual drawings and paintings of poor city children who were often seen playing in the streets in ragged clothes. See illustration: “Boy in a brown Jersey”. In the early 1950s [...]

By |2019-05-12T13:44:37+01:00November 23rd, 2014|Scottish Art|0 Comments
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PAT DOUTHWAITE “High Priestess of the Grotesque in British Art”

The first time I saw a work by Pat Douthwaite was at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art in the early 1990s. The large oil picture was “Death of Amy Johnson” part of a series of paintings based on the life of the pioneer pilot Amy Johnson, now in the collection at National Galleries Scotland. Pat Douthwaite was born on July 28 1934 in Glasgow where at the age of 13 she started studying mime, movement and modern dance with Margaret Morris, the celebrated British dancer and choreographer. She showed some of her pictures to Morris’s husband, Scottish Colourist JD Fergusson who recognised a formidable talent, although he dissuaded her from going to art school. Margaret Morris and JD Fergusson were the most important influences of Douthwaite’s youth. Aged 24 she moved to East Anglia where she lived among a group of artists including Scots expatriates Robert Colquhoun and Robert McBride, and William Crozier who introduced her to the distinguished artist and illustrator Paul Hogarth (1917-2001). Pat and Paul married in 1963 and for the next few years lived in [...]

By |2021-05-09T14:34:00+01:00November 22nd, 2014|Scottish Art|0 Comments
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Scottish Art Exhibition

I am delighted to be back at Sage Gateshead with another Scottish Art Exhibition. This show features artists shown by the Gallery over the past 28 years together with some who are exhibiting with the Gallery for the first time. There are Scottish landscapes of Skye, Iona, Mull and the Outer Hebrides by Jolomo and Robert Kelsey, a stunning and vibrant still life called "Two Toucans and Tahitian Girl" and a French scene by Jack Morrocco. Also in the exhibition are 5 pictures by David McClure and two chalk drawings of a "Boy in a brown Jersey" and "Glasgow Houses" by the internationally known Scottish Artist Joan Eardley RSA. There are watercolour and oil paintings of flowers by Liz Knox, Jenny Matthews and Alison McWhirter, 3 stunning abstract paintings by Christopher Wood and many more. Admission to the Scottish Art exhibition is free and is open from 24 - 29 November from 11am to 10pm at Sage Gateshead.

By |2019-05-12T13:45:39+01:00November 21st, 2014|Exhibitions, Scottish Art|0 Comments
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Alison McWhirter – new gallery artist

Alison McWhirter is a new artist to the Gallery and has been described by Scotland on Sunday as “rapidly becoming one of Scotland’s best loved and most admired new Scottish Colourists”. […]

By |2021-05-14T11:46:12+01:00September 27th, 2013|Scottish Art|0 Comments
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BATTLE OF FLODDEN – 9TH SEPTEMBER 1513

This year is the 500th Anniversary of the Battle of Flodden. Much has been written about the Battle and how and where it occurred, and I suppose much more will be said this year. However one question that is rarely asked is what would have happened if the Scots had won? […]

By |2019-05-12T13:45:59+01:00August 9th, 2013|Scottish Art|Comments Off on BATTLE OF FLODDEN – 9TH SEPTEMBER 1513
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Isle of Mull

The Isle of Mull is the largest island of the Southern Hebrides in Scotland and has been inhabited since the end of the Ice Age around 6500bc with over 300 miles of coastline, it’s blue waters and sandy coves offer a feast for lovers of nature and wildlife. It is fairly mountainous with Ben More (966 metres). Mull is home to over 250 different bird species including the White-tailed Eagle, Hen Harrier, and Golden Eagle and has featured recently on BBC Springwatch tv series. The huge coastline provides a fantastic opportunity to spot sea birds and waders, Minke whales, porpoises and dolphins. […]

By |2019-05-12T13:46:02+01:00April 14th, 2013|Scottish Art|Comments Off on Isle of Mull
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Sir William MacTaggart – can you identify the location of this painting?

SIR WILLIAM MacTAGGART  PPRSA HRA  FRSE  HRSW LLD (1903 – 1981) Sir William MacTaggart was a Scottish painter known for his landscapes of Scotland, particularly East Lothian and Fife, France and Norway. His father was the co-founder of MacTaggart Scott, engineering firm in Loanhead. William MacTaggart was often known as William MacTaggart the Younger, to differentiate him from his […]

By |2019-05-12T13:46:06+01:00April 5th, 2013|Scottish Art|0 Comments
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