Detail from an Intriguing Oil Painting by the Little Known French Painter Jean Pierre Garrigue
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The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 196 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts Winter 2016 Detail from an intriguing oil painting by the little known French painter Jean Pierre Garrigue. In- side, Cathy Bell reports from Ceret on her quest for more information on his life and times. Inside: Seventy seven bowls for a 77 year old Theatre in the wild : : Camperdown saved artWORK 196 Winter 2016 Page 2 artWORK 196 Winter 2016 Page 3 The Torrance Gallery Christmas Exhibition Subscription form on page 12 SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARCHITECT-ARTISTS Over 40 Gallery artists Jewellery by Sheana Stephen 3rd December – 7th January THE VITAL ART As part of the Festival of Architecture 2016, “The Vital Art” exhibits affordable and distinctive artworks by 136th ANNUAL EXHIBITION Scottish architect-artists plus invited colleagues from France Poland and Italy. The Upper Galleries, Scottish National Galleries Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh 14th Dec - 8th Jan 9 - 28 January 2017 OPEN: WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY CALL FOR ENTRIES TheFireStationCreative Carnegie Dr, Dunfermline KY12 7AN RECEIVING DAY: 29 DECEMBER 2016 36 Dundas Street : Edinburgh EH3 6JN 0131 556 6366 [email protected] www.torrancegallery.co.uk For schedule and labels please send C5 sae to: HARBOUR Artists & Craft Makers Gallery Picture framing service from our own workshops RSW, C/o Robb Ferguson, Regent Court, COTTAGE 70 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2QZ GALLERY KIRKCUDBRIGHT W.A.S.P.S. NON MEMBERS MAY ALSO (Kirkcudbright) SUBMIT WORK ONLINE OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 12 Contact details: http://rsw.oess8.uk KIRKCUDBRIGHT ARTS & CRAFTS Many awards including the ASSOCIATION Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award £3000 NOVEMBER 14 - 26 for artists under 30 on 29 December. CHRISTMAS FAYRE Ian Shields (left) NOVEMBER 28th - Robert Goldsmith (right) Patron: HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothsay DECEMBER 10th 1 Biggiesknowe, Peebles EH45 8HS Charity No: SC007247 More Information at: www.harbourcottagegallery.org.uk Online gallery and shop: tweedart.co.uk charity number: SCO14415 NORTHERNBOOKS Winter Issue 2016 www.northernbooks.co.uk artWORK 196 Winter 2016 Page 4 The Watermill – one of the world’s best… Guide Frances Anderson on the Aberfeldy bookshop and gallery that has won world recognition From London’s Kentish premises – we had seen LIGHTHOUSES, Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, 01346 town to the falls of The Watermill while Aberdeen 511 022 looking for a home and ABERDEEN ART GALLERY & Purpose-built museum with multi- Aberfeldy in the MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, screen technology. Scotland’s first Scottish Highlands, discounted it – too big 01224 523 700 lighthouse, built 1781. Open all and needing too much Closed for major refurbishment year. Check holiday opening times Kevin Ramage’s love of Until March 31 2017 PETERHEAD MARITIME HER- books has stood him in work. Northern Lights. Drum Castle ITAGE, South Road, Peterhead, “But then Jayne, ABERDEEN MARITIME AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 good stead throughout MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, Experience Peterhead’s maritime his life. So much so that my wife, persuaded me 01224 337700 life past and present Until January 14 2017 GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- his Watermill bookshop to have a look inside Alexander Christie. Toys and ping Centre, Constitution Street, has been included in to see how it might Games. Portrait Inverurie, AB51 4UY GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden a collection of 75 of do for a bookshop. Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, the ‘World’s Greatest Covering three floors, it www.galleryheinzel.com 01569 740039 Contemporary Scottish art Bookstores’. was massive! Disused November 12 - February 12 for three years, rain 2017 Aberfeldy Mixed Winter Exhibition. ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 Ken- TO THE SURPRISE was leaking in, while GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, Rob- more Street, PH15 2BL, 01887 829 rats scurried among ert Gordon University, Garthdee 129, www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk of Kevin Ramage, Road, AB10 7QD, www.rgu.ac.uk/ November 5 - January 5 2017 the owner of the abandoned grain sacks. about/faculties-schools-and-de- Final Xmas Show - gallery for sale partments/faculty-of-design-and- - see advertisement Watermill Bookshop in But what a building! technology/gray-s-school-of-art WATERMILL GALLERY, Mill Aberfeldy, Perthshire, The rest, after investing THE ART GALLERY, Grampian Street, PH15 2BG, 01887 822 896, Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen www.aberfeldywatermill.com, an unsolicited parcel nearly half and million Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, [email protected] arrived from the USA pounds, is, as they say, AB25 2ZN, 01224 552 429 Art Gallery, Bookshop, Coffee & Music Shop containing a print of a history.” HOLBURN GALLERY, 83 From October 29 Holburn Street, AB10 6BQ, 01224 Lindsay Turk and Jon Plunkett . watercolour painting of In an age when 596 617 Enough and More. independent bookshops Limited edition prints by many of Until January 10, 2017 his bookshop. Eckstein’s watercolour depiction of the lovingly restored Watermill inAberfeldy Gallery Heinzel’s artists Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Line Inside, a note from seem to be on the PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS, 21 and Rhythm: Line Drawings and decline, I ask to what he attributes the bookshop’s Castle Street, AB11 5BQ, 01224 Late Prints New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein explained to turn an old mill into a bookstore. I’m asked to 639 539 AUDREY SLORANCE GAL- that The Watermill Bookshop was one of 75 success? RENDEZVOUS GALLERY, 100 open it, and witness Kevin, the owner, flinging LERY, 6 The Square, PH15 2DD, Ramage’s reply? Forest Avenue, AB15 4TL, 01224 01887 829015. shops in his new book Footnotes from the World’s himself on the waterwheel to get started. I 323 247 KELTNEYBURN SMITHY AND Greatest Bookstores. expected it to be a magnificent failure, but it’s been “We set out to achieve the highest standards PROVOST SKENE’S HOUSE, GALLERY, The Bothy Showroom, – whether it is in book displays, quality of art in Guestrow, (between Broad Street Keltneyburn Smithy, Keltneyburn, Moreover, The Watermill is one of only four a magnificent success. Walter Scott is no longer the and Flourmill Lane), AB10 1AS, PH15 2LF, 01887 830 267 our exhibitions, coffee and tea and our fixtures. 01224 641 086 Sculptures created by mother and bookshops in the UK and the only one in Scotland only reason for book-lovers to go to Scotland.” TOLBOOTH MUSEUM, Castle daughter team, Morag and Heather to be included, along with representation from Kevin Ramage said: “Above all this Our objective has been to create an aspirational Street, AB10 1EX, 01224 621 167 Cumming atmosphere – where people see things they might Until April 13 2018 places as far flung as Japan, China and Argentina. wonderful surprise is an acknowledgement and Tales of the Tolbooth. Explores the Bob Eckstein explains that his selection tribute to the outstanding support we have received not see elsewhere – the best things in life should historic Tolbooth building through not be the preserve of a few but accessible to as the experiences of five of the early Aberlour “based on recommendations, word of mouth, from our customers, in a town of just 2,000 people. residents STILL LIFE STUDIO, High social history, and contributions to the locale… wide an audience as possible. Street, AB38 9NX, 01340 871 457 Since we opened we have seen off the recession, CLAREMONT STUDIO, 66 “Our customers have been fantastic – the Claremont Street, AB10 6QY, began with a list of 150 bookstores eventually the rise of tax-dodging online booksellers and the 01224 596 999 Alloa narrowed down to 75.” birth of e-books. Almost every year the media people who come two or three times a year and NICOLE PORTER GALLERY, spend hundreds of pounds on books or buy a 88 King Street, AB24 5BA, 01224 THE GALLERY, Gordon McFar- One recommendation of The Watermill seem to have been predicting the death of the 566 477 lane, Watchmaker, 41 Mill Street, painting, but above all the locals who come in FK10 1DW, 01259 723 303 came from Michael Palin, who when asked by bricks-and-mortar bookshop, but this October just Work from Ochil Craft Associa- Bob Eckstein for his most memorable bookstore finished we have celebrated our strongest sales every week – some every day whatever the winter Aberdeenshire tion weather. And last but not least, our staff team. We BRAEMAR GALLERY, Mar RESONATE ARTS HOUSE, Units moment, said it was the time he opened the ever.” Road, Braemar, AB35 5YL, 01339 A3, North Castle Street, FK10 Watermill Bookshop (in 2005). are a ‘Living Wage’ employer – that’s the proper 741 681, www.braemargallery. 1EU, 01259 928 014 The Owl Bookshop in London’s Kentish co.uk, [email protected] Palin said: “The most perfect conjunction. Town originally opened in 1973 and Ramage living wage not the government’s cut-price version Oil paintings, watercolours, – and we have a great team, several of whom have etchings, engravings, sculpture, Angus The owner of my favourite local bookshop in owned it from 1989. jewellery and cards KINBLETHMONT GALLERY, Kentish Town, London, decamps to the most been with us since we opened 11 years ago” Arbroath, DD11 4RW, 01241 830 “I have always had a deep love of books and LARKS GALLERY, 10 Braemar So for those who still love a good read, and Road, Ballater, AB35 5RL, 01339 756, www.kinblethmontgallery. beautiful countryside in Scotland and decides reading, and a shop I knew, not far from where I 755 888, www.larksgallery.com co.uk, kinblethmont@btinternet. for book lovers everywhere, The Watermill is well Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, com lived in North London, came on the market at a glass, textiles, jewellery and November 7 - 22 price I could afford.” worth a visit.