Alyth Burn in Spring by Jonathan Mitchell Is from His Exhibition 30 Years, 30 Paintings at Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry
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11 September 2020 Issue 130 Alyth Burn in Spring by Jonathan Mitchell is from his exhibition 30 Years, 30 Paintings at Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry. See ARTS NEWS. Autumn Exhibition ‘Gleam into Leaf’ 22 August – 23 October Featuring artists – Linda Park, Moy MacKay, Fiona Miller, Amanda Philips, Elizabeth Watson and Alison Midson. Bespoke picture framing – ask about 144 High Street, Dunbar, East Lothian our home consultation service 01368 865 141 www.coastart.co.uk 2 | 11 September | Issue 130 11 September | Issue 130 | 3 BEGINNERS DRAWING & PAINTING This course provides a structured introduction to drawing and painting and is designed for complete beginners wishing to learn the basics. Students are taken through projects step by step to build up their confidence and ability. Monday | 9:30am - 1pm | Tutor: Owen Normand Tuesday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Dominic McIvor Wednesday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Rachael Rebus DRAWING & PAINTING THE FIGURE The human body is a wonderfully diverse subject from which to draw and paint. This course will explore the nude figure in depth, as well as portraiture and working from the draped figure. Monday | 2pm - 5pm | Tutor: Sarah Gittins Monday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Ginny Elston Thursday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Ben Davies-Jenkins Leith School of Art, 25 North Junction Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HW www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk | 0131 554 5761 | [email protected] 4 | 11 September | Issue 130 11 September | Issue 130 | 5 Arts News dinburgh’s City Art ECentre reopens on Saturday September 12 with two exhibitions. City Art Centre at 40: Highlights from the City’s Art Collection (until Oct 18) marks the gallery’s 40th anniversary, while Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s (until Jun 6, 2021) evokes a period of social, political and economic change. Widely recognised as one of the finest in the country, the City’s dating back to 1899 and over the collection numbers over 5,000 past 40 years it has hosted over 500 The next live auction online by artworks ranging from some of exhibitions. Highlights have included the Edinburgh branch of Lyon & Gold of the Pharaohs (1988), Abstract Turnbull is Jewellery, Watches the earliest views of Edinburgh to & Silver (Sep 15), featuring a works by many of Scotland’s leading Expressionist Paintings from MOMA stunning array of period bangles, contemporary artists. They include New York (1981) and Michelangelo neck chains, bracelets, pendants, major historical figures such as Allan Drawings (1994) as well as solo shows rings, brooches, earrings and Ramsay, the pioneer photographers by Scottish artists and craftmakers more. This is followed by African Hill and Adamson and the Scottish such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Oceanic Art and Antiquities Colourists as well as contemporaries (1987), Peter Howson (2007) and (Sep 16). Pictured: Luvale mask such as John Byrne, Alison Watt and Victoria Crowe (2019). Pictured: John (Zambia), carved wood, coffee- Adrian Wiszniewski. Duncan (1866-1945), Tristan and Isolde bean eyes, est. £400-600 The City Art Centre occupies a (detail), tempera on canvas, 1912 www.lyonandturnbull.com refurbished, five-storey warehouse www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk The Academicians’ Gallery in the Royal Scottish Academy reopens on Thursday September 10 and viewing slots can now be booked online. The Academicians’ Gallery is the year-round exhibition space showing works for sale by eminent members who are elected by their peers and who are Scottish by birth or residence. The RSA relies on artwork sales as a source of income to fund its year-round programme of exhibitions and events. Pictured: David Michie, The River Bank, 2009, screenprint www.royalscottishacademy.org 11 September | Issue 130 | 7 6 | 11 September | Issue 130 21 August | Issue 127 | 25 Arts News Flinn with coastal August September October and harbour scenes, Michael Ewart with FINE ART GALLERY picturesque scenes of coastal towns and villages and Tricia Barna with atmospheric acrylic paintings. NEOS is happening Newcomers are this year, with painter and printmaker some changes, due Anne Skinner to Covid19. We have printed maps (pictured: Coastline), with a list of figurative artist Garry participants on the Harper, printmaker/ back. These are writer/poet Hugh available from Bryden, mixed media participants, from the middle of A year round guide to landscape artist Jackie the artists & makers in Winds of Change at the Whitehouse the North East of August. Our book is Scotland Gallery in Kirkcudbright (Sep 12- Stevenson RSW, Jonathan Stockley alan b hayman on the website as a Oct 31) is a mixed group exhibition with small, detailed studies of rural, downloadable PDF. urban and industrial landscapes and journey to st kilda featuring both long-standing gallery The Glasgow Print Studio is www.resipolestudios.co.uk regulars and some new names. Peter Dworok with landscapes in oil. The exhibition also includes ceramics, showing John Byrne at 80 (until Oct loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx www.northeastopenstudios.co.uk Returning regulars are landscape 30), featuring works by the revered artists Amanda Phillips, Heather mosaics and textiles. www.whitehousegallery.co.uk Scottish playwright, writer and artist. Davies and Margaret Evans, Clare All produced at the studio’s facilities, which Byrne has been using since aken from an ongoing series the 1970s, the works include a new Tbased on a 2019 trip to Italy, Ross selection of exclusive, hand-coloured Miller: Reflections at Edinburgh’s screenprints. Pictured: Night Owl, screenprint with watercolour, An Evening Sky Upright Gallery (until Oct 1) features ) drawings inspired by sculptures in the varied ed. of 10 Vatican and Florence. Describing an Also showing is David Eustace: impromptu day trip to Rome before Dear John, A Thirty Year Portrait, SCOTTISH B.1953 ( catching the last train back to Pisa, featuring a limited edition portfolio where he was staying, Miller says: of twelve photographic portraits of Byrne taken over a 30-year period. Clare Blois “I rushed around on foot to see as much as I could. It was manic, and I The edition is printed on hand-made think that comes across in the work Japanese paper and presented in a Upcoming Auctions through the frantic mark-making hand-made clamshell archival box. of some of the quicker sketches. David Eustace has photographs in the 19 September / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery I’ve been feeling my way through collections of the Scottish National www.brownandturner.co.uk 17 October / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery Portrait Gallery and the Glasgow 14 November / Contemporary Art Auction depicting a figure as opposed to Complimentary Valuations available by appointment 14 November / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery measuring the proportions of a face.” Museum of Modern Art. 12 December / Christmas Jewellery Auction Pictured: Vatican figure study, mixed www.gpsart.co.uk 01835 863445 | [email protected] 12 December / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery media www.uprightgallery.com 8 | 11 September | Issue 130 11 September | Issue 130 | 9 Arts News 30 Years, 30 Paintings at Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry (Sep 12-26) features new WWW.NOMADSTENT.CO.UK works by the Scottish landscape painter Jonathan Mitchell, who uses mainly oils in the Northern European tradition of painterly realism. His images often feature a ‘contre-jour’ lighting perspective where the viewer is looking directly at the sun. This enables heightened tonal contrasts and vivid shadows. Pictured: Autumn Light, Caddam Wood www.eastudios.com The famous yellow signs will be appearing around the region with artists’ numbers on them, and R U G S & I N T E R I O R S you are asked to treat studios as you would a small shop by WE BUY & SELL, CLEAN & REPAIR wearing a mask, using hand N e w , o l d & a n t i q u e o r i e n t a l sanitiser and observing social r u g s , c a r p e t s & k i l i m s distance guidelines. Pictured: Sculpture by Lois Carson www. northeastopenstudios.co.uk/ artists-search From Montrose basin to the In the Abbeyhill area of Banffshire coast, members of North Edinburgh over 40 members of East Open Studios (NEOS) are the Colony of Artists will this getting ready to welcome visitors (Sep year welcome visitors to a socially 12-20). For the first time in its 17-year distanced exhibition weekend 298 Portobello High St history, this year’s event in ‘blended’, dubbed The Garden Party (Sep 19 & Portobello with some artists and craftmakers 20). www.colony-of-artists.com Edinburgh opening their studios as normally as Also in Edinburgh, you can book EH15 2AS possible, others asking that you make a free time-slot to visit Coburg an appointment and some opting to House Studios (Sep 19 & 20), where 07835 813689 create show online. A printed map you’ll find several floors occupied Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-4 velveteasel.co.uk has been produced with members’ by painters, printers, jewellers, 21 St Leonard's Lane, EH8 9SH [email protected] locations and contact details, while textile artists, ceramicists and more [email protected] the most up to date info is on the 0131 662 1612 showing and selling their work. artists’ search page below. www.coburghouse.co.uk 10 | 11 September | Issue 130 11 September | Issue 130 | 11 Arts News found in her South Queensferry Beggars Would Eat Birds at Dundee WEEKLY ONLINE gallery, Allium. The show will also Contemporary Arts (Sep 12-Nov 15) is EXHIBITIONS SERIES feature a selection of work by a newly commissioned body of work in potter Wayne Galloway. Pictured: which Whipps explores the histories of Distant Trees various plants and minerals in different www.kirstinheggie.com parts of the world. Through installation, photography, film and sound, he tuart Whipps makes work about reflects on how people have worked Pete Monaghan with materials over vast periods of September 14-20 Sthings he does not understand or skills that he does not already possess, time.