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ARTTRAVEL PHILADELPHIA:& THE “CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE” IS A ‘MUST SEE’ FOR ART-LOVERS

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA & ART GALLERIES OF NEW YORK A FIVE NIGHT HOLIDAY | 2 MARCH 2019 Enjoy three star-studded performances at the Metropolitan Opera featuring some of the world’s greatest opera singers including Ailyn Pérez, Anna Netrebko and Roberto Frontali as well as a backstage tour of the Met. In addition to the opera we will visit museums and galleries including the Whitney, the Metropolitan and MOMA, where we enjoy a private visit before the crowds arrive. We stay at the Hotel Empire (4*), located just across the street from the Lincoln Center, and a couple of minutes’ walk from the Met. Price from £2,659 per person (single supp. £330) including flights, transfers, accommodation on a room only basis, tickets to three operas, two dinners, all sightseeing, entrance fees and gratuities and the services of the Kirker Tour Leader.

CHRISTMAS IN ROME A FIVE NIGHT HOLIDAY |22 DECEMBER 2018 The Eternal City is the perfect place to spend Christmas, and at this time of year it is also blissfully free from crowds, so we will explore the great galleries, religious buildings and ancient architecture in relative peace. We will stay at the 5* Grand Hotel de la Minerve, located in the heart of Rome, with a roof terrace which overlooks the dome of the Pantheon. There will be visits to the Forum, dotted with basilicas, temples and triumphal arches, the church of Santa Maria Antiqua on the beautiful Palatine Hill, and the Colosseum. A morning will be spent at the the Galleria Borghese and we will also visit the Pantheon, the best-preserved building of Ancient Rome. A Christmas Day lunch is included at a carefully selected local restaurant. Price from £2,096 per person (single supp. £428) for five nights including flights, transfers, accommodation with breakfast, Christmas Day lunch, four dinners, all sightseeing, entrance fees and gratuities and the services of the Kirker Tour Lecturer.

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THE QUEEN’S GALLERY A Retrospective PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE 20 October – 10 November

11 MAY – 21 OCTOBER 2018

See the largest ever exhibition of Canaletto’s paintings in Scotland Telegraph Pole with a Crow with a Pole Telegraph

THE GLASGOW ART CLUB is celebrating Paintings and etchings by David Michie will be what would have been David Michie’s available for sale, along with copies of his book. 90th birthday this autumn, with a The Glasgow Art Club retrospective of his work that has been 185 Bath Street selected by his daughters. Glasgow G2 4HU www.glasgowartclub.co.uk www.royalcollection.org.uk Enjoy free re-admission for a year by asking us to treat your 0141 248 5210 0303 123 7306 ticket purchase as a donation. 50 paintings and etchings will be exhibited, along with a small group of Admission free works by his mother, Anne Redpath, Open 11am - 5pm and his father, James Michie. (closed Sundays) David Michie OBE, RSA A Retrospective 20 October – 10 November Telegraph Pole with a Crow with a Pole Telegraph

THE GLASGOW ART CLUB is celebrating Paintings and etchings by David Michie will be what would have been David Michie’s available for sale, along with copies of his book. 90th birthday this autumn, with a The Glasgow Art Club retrospective of his work that has been 185 Bath Street selected by his daughters. Glasgow G2 4HU www.glasgowartclub.co.uk 0141 248 5210 50 paintings and etchings will be exhibited, along with a small group of Admission free works by his mother, Anne Redpath, Open 11am - 5pm and his father, James Michie. (closed Sundays) The Herald Financial Times

ARMONICO Verdi TRIBUTO RIGOLETTO A malicious tongue. An innocent heart. A fatal revenge.

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35 CONTENTS 37 FEATURES ART NEWS KEEPING YOU IN THE PICTURE 8 ART BOOKS READ ALL ABOUT IT! 11 CRAFT & DESIGN HAND-MADE FOR YOU AND YOUR HOME 13 PHOTO SPREAD ALTERNATIVE VISIONS BY DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY PHOTOGRAPHERS 14 ART & TRAVEL CHICAGO: A 'MUST SEE' FOR ART-LOVERS 16 SEVEN SISTERS BRITISH WOMEN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW 20 MONA MANIA COURSES, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS WHY IS SHE SO POPULAR? 23 GET CREATIVE! 53 REGIONAL NEWS ART SUPPLIES & SERVICES PAINT IT, FRAME IT, INSURE IT, SHIP IT! ABERDEEN & NORTHEAST SCOTLAND 27 AYRSHIRE 29 SHOWCASE 55 BORDERS 31 ARTISTS & CRAFTMAKERS DIRECTORY DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY 33 DUNDEE & ANGUS 35 SUBSCRIBE TO ARTMAG 56 EDINBURGH & LOTHIANS 37 GIVE YOURSELF OR A FRIEND THE GIFT OF ART! FIFE 43 GLASGOW & GREATER GLASGOW 45 WIN! HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS 47 TICKETS TO THE EDINBURGH ART FAIR VIP 18 PERTHSHIRE 51 PREVIEW EVENING!...TICKETS TO THE CONCERTS BY STIRLINGSHIRE 52 CANDLELIGHT SERIES BY THE SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE!

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18 The Tree of Life Annual Exhibition 2018 & Wood Market Custom Lane Custom Wharf 67 Commercial Street Leith EH6 6LH Fri 16th - Sun 25th November Admission Free See www.sfma.org.uk for more details…

Call for Entries RECEIVING DAYS 10th and 11th Nov 2018 www.rsw.org.uk for further details For an exhibition pack, send an C5 SAE to: Lindsay Neil RSW Administrator c/o Robb Ferguson 3rd Floor, Regent Court 70 West Regent Street Glasgow, G2 2QZ

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David Michie OBE, RSA, FRSA, FECA (1928-2015), ‘Balancing on a Finger’. From a retrospective exhibition at the Glasgow Art Club. See preview p45. 3d/2d’s exceptional.....

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BIG NEWS Never before displayed in Scotland, a monumental work by Leith-born Sir Eduardo Paolozzi will find a new home in the capital upon the completion of an expansion of Edinburgh Park on the western outskirts of the city. Originally commissioned by Peter Millican, chairman of

the Parabola company, SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI, ‘VULCAN’. COURTESY OF ESTATE/PANGOLIN for its Central Square LONDON, PHOTO © STEVE RUSSELL STUDIOS development in Newcastle NO CASH, PLEASE, WE'RE ARTISTS and unveiled in 1999, ‘The Vulcan’ is In 2014 Bernard Arnault, owner of the Using brain scanning, researchers at the Paolozzi’s depiction of the Roman god of fire LVMH luxury goods group (Louis Vuitton, University Medical Centre in Göttingen, and metalworking. Half-man/half-machine, Moët & Chandon, Hennessy cognac, etc.), Germany, analysed the reaction of groups of it was created, according to the artist, as “a France’s richest man and one its most artists and non-artists who were presented monument to the modern industrial age.” ardent art collectors, opened the Louis with offers of free cash. Similar in stature to ‘Vulcan,’ currently Vuitton Foundation in Paris to house his art The study, published in the Creativity on display at the Scottish National Gallery collection. Research Journal, suggests that the cliché of of Modern Art (Modern Two), the Parabola Arnault’s luxury goods rival Francois the “starving artist” may be down to the fact work is one of Paolozzi’s last major bronze Pinault (Gucci, Samsonite, Christie’s auction that creative types are physiologically hard- sculptures. It will be the centrepiece of a house), who has already turned an 18th wired not to care about money, as reported £500 million development that Parabola century Venetian palazzo into the Palazzo by Artnet. plans for a public square for artists and Grassi art museum, plans to open a new A group which included actors, painters, performers to use for lighting features, art Paris museum in 2019. sculptors, musicians and photographers and installations and pop-up events. The first Pharmaceutical heiress Maja Hoffman one composed of an insurance salesman, offices in the Edinburgh Park expansion are has opened the Frank Gehry-designed a dentist, a business administrator and an due to open in 2020. Luma in Arles in the south of France, while engineer, among other professions, were in October industrialist and art collector shown a series of squares in different MEGA MUSEUMS Mitchell Rales opens the 50,000 square foot colours. If selected with the push of a The mega-rich are driving a boom in new art Glenstone Museum in Maryland, featuring button, green squares produced a monetary museums, as reported in The Art Newspaper. work by Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko reward, while other colours did and others. not. Thierry Ehrmann, chairman Monitoring the part of the brain of the online database Artprice, which produces dopamine - the told The Times: “Between 2000 chemical which delivers rushes and 2014 more museums were of excitement often associated opened than during the whole of with sex, drugs and gambling – the 19th and 20th centuries. At researchers found that the artists the moment the rate is about 700 showed significantly reduced a year, and I am talking about activation in the ventral striatum, international museums with 4,500 part of the brain’s reward system, or more artefacts in them. It is a when they selected the money- real revolution.” making green squares compared FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON © GEHRY PARTNERS, LLP AND FRANK O. GEHRY/ to non-artists. IWAN BAAN, 2014

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Meadow Mill Open Studios, where three floors of studios house the biggest collective OPEN STUDIOS of artists, designers and makers in Dundee. ART WORLD Oct 27 & 28, www.facebook.com/ waspsartistsstudiosdundee utumn brings the close of open MELBOURNE Visitors to the capital of studios season, when artists and EDINBURGH Patriothall Open Studios, Victoria state can now take one of eight A makers welcome the public into Nov 24 & 25, www.waspsstudios.org.uk/ art trams through the city’s streets. The their work spaces to see behind the scenes, spaces/artist-space/patriothall-studios first colourful tram put into service was talk to them about their work and buy or Coburg House Open Studios, Nov 30-Dec 2, ‘Tramjatra’, designed by Lucknow-born commission an original piece. You’ll meet www.coburghouse.co.uk artist Bushra Hasan and inspired by everything from printmakers, painters, Indian street and tribal art. jewellers, ceramicists and photographers FIFE Fire Station Creative Open Studios, to upcyclers, textile designers, furniture Nov 24 & 25, makers, sculptors and illustrators. Great for www.firestationcreative.co.uk early Ch****mas shopping. (No, we can’t bring ourselves to say it either.)

AYRSHIRE Courtyard Studios, Irvine Oct 6 & 7, www.waspsstudios.org.uk/spaces/ artist-space/the-courtyard

BORDERS Open Studios Taster Exhibition, part of the Biggar Little Festival (Oct 18-28), Oct 26-28, www.biggarlittlefestival.com See also BORDERS, p33. PORTRAITIST DUNDEE With all eyes on the opening of DAVID REID (AYRSHIRE/ the V&A, it’s a good time to draw attention COURTYARD to the local creative community at WASPS STUDIOS)

LEIDEN The birthplace of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (like Leonardo Quote...Unquote and Titian, he took to using only his first name) will reveal early works by the Dutch master when the refurbished I never have taken a picture I’ve Painting is the best way I’ve found of Museum de Lakenhal (cloth hall) opens intended. They’re always better its doors in 2019 during Rembrandt getting along with myself. or worse. and the Dutch Golden Age, a Holland- DIANE ARBUS ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG wide celebration marking the 350th anniversary of his death. Colour is the place where our brain In the end, it doesn’t really matter meets the universe. what you paint. It’s all just a PAUL CÉZANNE routine to connect yourself finally. with other people.

I don’t mind saying I find it difficult CHRIS OFILI to square up the money and the fame with the art and integrity. I hate flowers. I paint them DAMIEN HIRST because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move. In a burning building, I would save a cat GEORGIA O’KEEFFE before a Rembrandt. ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Flesh was the reason oil painting was invented. I cannot help it that my pictures do not WILLEM DE KOONING sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are I draw flowers every day on my iPhone worth more than the price of the paint. and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning. REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, ‘MAN IN ORIENTAL COSTUME VINCENT VAN GOGH DAVID HOCKNEY ('THE NOBLE SLAV'), 1632. BEQUEST OF WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT, 1920. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Source: Art is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists, pub. Phaidon NEW YORK

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MADRID This contemporary take on Velasquez’ ‘Las Meninas’, one of the main attractions in the Museo del Prado, is one of several works greeting visitors waiting in line to visit the jewel of the Spanish capital’s art museums.

COLOGNE Spread over a couple of acres next to the Rhine, the Cologne Sculpture Park features works by German and international artists on permanent loan from the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. The works are replaced every two years.

PEDRO WIRZ, ‘TRILOBITES’, 2013-17, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

ANTWERP Over 250 works are dotted around the 30-hectare grounds of Middelheim, making it one of the world’s largest outdoor sculpture collections. With pieces by Rodin to present day artists, it is a beautiful place to wander. Exhibition of new original paintings by Peter ‘Deetz’ Davidson 5 Nov - 31 Dec 2018 Exhibition Preview Sunday 4 Nov www.blagdongallery.co.uk 9 Milkhope Centre, Berwick Hill Road, Seaton Burn, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE13 6DA 01670 789944 | [email protected] ERWIN WURM, ‘MISCONCEIVABLE’

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1 A First Class Honours graduate in ‘en plein air’ and often incorporating natural Silversmithing and Jewellery Design from materials such as willow and wood. PHOTO: TINA SORENSEN Glasgow School of Art, Karen Westland www.pascalerentsch.com uses 100 per cent recycled precious metals and other responsibly sourced materials to create exquisite 4 Specialising in the use of polymer clay, a non-toxic material silverware and jewellery inspired by tools built to explore outer made primarily of plastic resin, Kate Trouw creates elegant and space. Pictured: Carafe with beakers, currently on display in Bute playful jewellery to wear every day. Pictured: Lariat necklace House, official residence of the First Minister of Scotland www. from the Loop collection www.katetrouw.com karenwestland.com 5 Inspired by the grains and patterns in Scottish woods and shapes 2 Now based in Budapest, Scottish glass artist Jeff Cunningham found in nature, Tom Cooper creates functional, yet stylish has created a series of photo-sculptures of his adoptive city by pieces he calls “usable sculpture.” Pictured: Solid oak carver encasing his own atmospheric images of the Hungarian capital in dining chair with sycamore details www.tcfinefurniture.co.uk translucent, light-bending panes of thick glass. He has new work 6 Aberdeenshire-based Tim Palmer works with willow, cane, birch in Gallery Ten in Edinburgh. www.jeffcunnighamglass.com and willow bark to make a variety of functional baskets. He 3 From her studio in Haddington, East Lothian, Swiss-born has also made replicas and reproductions of traditional fishing ceramicist Pascale Rentsch makes nature-inspired tableware baskets and aircraft seats for WWI replicas. and home accessories decorated with her own scenes painted www.timpalmerbasketmaker.co.uk

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 11 19-21 OCT 11am-6pm Necklace by Lynne MacLachlan at Lyon & Turnbull, 33 Broughton Place Edinburgh EH1 3RR

12 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 ART BOOKS READ ALL ABOUT IT!

STARRY NIGHT: VAN GOGH AT THE ASYLUM, by Martin Bailey, pub. White Lion Publishing

hortly after mutilating his own ear, van Gogh voluntarily entered s the St Paule Mausole asylum in the south of France. His year-long stay was a surprisingly prolific period during which he developed vigorous brushwork to capture the Provence landscape with its cypresses, wheatfields, olive groves and dazzling sunsets. Excerpts from the many letters he sent to his brother Theo provide an insight into his state of mind. THE WELL OF BEING, by Jean-Pierre Weill, pub. Bluebird Books for Life

aris-Born, Baltimore-based Jean-Pierre Weill VAUDREY, by Mel Gooding combines art and philosophy to explore the & Lucy Inglis, pub. Sansom & meaning of happiness and what it takes to escape Company P the ‘constructed stories’ of our upbringing and live his lavishly illustrated in the present. Each passage of Weill’s narrative is monograph, the first on Scottish- illustrated on the facing page with a thought-provoking T born Elsa Vaudrey’s 60-year watercolour. Few books are the ‘life-changers’ they career, examines not only the are touted to be. This one could become an enduring atmospheric, abstract paintings for exception. which she is best known, but also her large body of figurative work, mainly still lifes and landscapes. ART: THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL GUIDE, Vaudrey (1905-90) developed a by Andrew Graham-Dixon, pub. Dorling Kindersley highly expressive and vibrant style in paintings often made in response to her surroundings. The book has been informed by access to her own papers he new edition of this valuable resource continues and personal photographs, published here for the first time. its aim, as columnist and TV presenter Graham- T Dixon puts it, ‘to encourage anyone and everyone to deepen their knowledge of one of the richest, most fascinating fields PAINTING NOW, of endeavour by Suzanne Hudson and expression’. pub. Thames & Hudson It features efreshingly concise and illustrated 2,500 of the by reproductions of key works, this most influential R survey of contemporary painting paintings and finds the medium in rude health. The sculptures from author, Associate Professor of Art all over the History and Fine Arts at the University of world, each one Southern California, analyses the work accompanied by of over 200 international artists who expert analysis define the ideas and aesthetics which by specialist art characterise painting today - K.H. historians.

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ALISTAIR HAMILTON, ‘AT WIGTOWN HARBOUR’ (ALISTAIR IS A MEMBER OF LAURA HUDSON MACKAY, ‘CONALLS CNOC’ THE BORGUE COLLECTIVE. SEE AD P36)

MICHAL SUR, CRAWFORD CASTLE’ ALTERNATIVE VISIONS

FROM ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES TO INFRARED IMAGES, PHOTOGRAPHERS FEATURED IN THIS YEAR’S SPRING FLING OPEN STUDIOS IN DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY FOUND EVER MORE CREATIVE WAYS OF EXPLORING THE WORLD AROUND THEM, EMBRACING POETRY, PORTRAITS, NATURE AND BUILDINGS TO CREATE ALTERNATIVE VISIONS WHICH BOTH DELIGHT AND DISTURB.

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ALISTAIR HAMILTON, ‘DEE MUD’ (ALISTAIR IS A MEMBER OF THE OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 15 BORGUE COLLECTIVE. SEE AD P36) PHIL MCMENEMY, ‘SNOW TREE’ ART & TRAVEL

STEPPING UP

THE FAMOUS “ROCKY STEPS” LEADING UP TO THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ARE DECKED OUT FOR A DALI EXHIBITION

Philadelphia is a ‘must nce the largest city in Unlike most US cities, Philadelphia “British North America”, has retained many of its original 17th and see’ for art-lovers, Philadelphia was founded 18th century buildings, and in the Old writes Ian Sclater in 1682 by the English City district some of the narrow, cobbled Quaker William Penn, who streets lined with red brick houses do a fair Ogave it the Greek name for ‘city of brotherly impersonation of Edwardian England. love’ to reflect his views on religious One of Philadelphia’s most imposing tolerance. Independence was declared in buildings, City Hall, reflects Philly’s the city in 1776 and it served as the new extraordinary love for public art. No fewer nation’s capital while Washington DC was than 250 sculptures adorn it, none of being built. military figures (respecting William Penn’s pacifism) and all created by Scottish- born Alexander Milne Calder, whose grandson, also named Alexander and known as Sandy, became one of America’s most important 20th century sculptors, particularly famed for his mobiles. City Hall is topped off by a 37-foot high statue of Penn, the tallest on any building in the world. Stretching out from City Hall (and past the magnificent Swann Memorial Fountain, designed by Alexander Stirling Calder, father of Sandy) the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, named after the American polymath and one of the nation’s Founding THE BARNES FOUNDATION Fathers, is a broad, Paris-inspired boulevard

16 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 ART & TRAVEL which leads past two of the city’s main art RODIN MUSEUM museums and culminates at its grandest. The first major addition to the Parkway in over 60 years, the Barnes Foundation debuted in its new home in 2012 after decades of controversy. (Google it.) The Barnes was conceived as “a gallery in a garden and a garden in a gallery”. The exterior is clad in fossilised limestone crowned by a luminous light box and set in an inviting public garden with an arboretum of cedars and Japanese maples. Approaching the entrance, visitors pass a 40-foot abstract sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly, which overlooks a reflecting pool. The contemplative atmosphere continues inside, where the rooms replicate the dimensions and shapes of the collection’s original home, a mansion in the suburbs. Visitors are first Each artwork is in exactly the same place as greeted by ‘The before and a helpful brochure in each room Thinker’, while at the identifies every piece on the walls. side of the building The Barnes is home to one of the world’s the six figures of ‘The finest collections of Impressionist, Post- Burghers of Calais’ Impressionist and Early Modern paintings. appear to be walking It boasts a number of world superlatives, to their seemingly including the largest single group of Pierre- imminent martyrdom. Auguste Renoir’s works (181), the largest The towering bronze single group of Paul Cézanne paintings doors at the entrance (69) and the largest collection of Modigliani are ‘The Gates of Hell’, paintings (12, a number equalled only by originally commissioned ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS the National Gallery of Art in Washington, for a decorative arts DC). Throw in 59 Matisses, 46 Picassos and museum in Paris which was never realised. showing nearly 250,000 works spanning works by (deep breath) Degas, Van Gogh, Left in plaster at Rodin’s death, the first 2,000 years and every continent. Exhibits Seurat, Rousseau, Soutine, Monet, Manet, El two bronze casts were made for Jules include painting, sculpture, decorative arts Greco, Rubens, Titian and Veronese, among Mastbaum, the founder of the Rodin and architectural settings. An Indian Hindu many others, and you have a collection of Museum. The second was given to the temple, a Japanese Buddhist temple or an over 3,000 pieces fit to rival any art museum Musée Rodin in Paris. entire American Period rooms furnished from in the world. The current installation explores the historic houses, anyone? The paintings are displayed alongside artist’s intimate depictions of romantic love. The modern and contemporary African sculpture, masks and tools, ceramics Couples embracing, kissing, tumbling and collections include works by the likes of (including by Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s wrestling fascinated Rodin. His most famous Picasso, O’Keeffe, Matisse, Duchamp (the son, Jean, the French film-maker), Native pair of lovers, ‘The Kiss’, is surrounded by world’s largest collection), de Kooning American fine crafts, medieval manuscripts works representing a variety of fleeting, and Pollock, while in the 19th century and sculptures, ancient Egyptian, Greek erotic moments. www.rodinmuseum.org European and Impressionist galleries you and Roman art and American and European will find Brancusi, Degas, Renoir, Manet, decorative arts. www.barnesfoundation.org Famous as the finishing point of Sylvester Van Gogh and a host more. Other galleries “Rocky” Stallone’s training regime and are devoted to American Art, Prints, A stroll further up Benjamin Franklin Parkway for a long time Philadelphia’s unrivalled Asian Art and Drawing and Photographs. brings the visitor to the Rodin Museum, premier art museum (it is now getting a run Selections from the permanent collection which with its elegant, light-filled, Beaux for its money by the Barnes Foundation), are accompanied by an ongoing series of Arts-style building and formal French garden the monumental, Greek-style Philadelphia special exhibitions. might have been transplanted from Paris. Museum of Art stands proudly at the top Don’t forget to walk around the one-acre Opened in 1929, the museum houses the of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, its three Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden largest Rodin collection outside Paris, with adjoining ‘temples’ with fluted columns or visit the nearby Perelman Building, nearly 150 bronzes, marbles and plasters supporting a blue-tiled roof topped by the Art Deco annex with its own exhibition representing every career phase of the artist bronze griffins. programme and the first phase of a master widely regarded as the father of modern One of the country’s largest art plan to expand and modernise the museum. sculpture. museums, the PMA has 200 galleries www.philamuseum.org​​

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 17 A pair of tickets to the Concerts A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE VIP PREVIEW EVENING OF by Candlelight series by the THE EDINBURGH ART FAIR, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22, Scottish Ensemble, the UK’s leading contemporary string 6.30-9.30pm! 25 PAIRS OF TICKETS UP FOR GRABS! orchestra! 2 pairs up for grabs!

Photo: Fraser Band Taking place in churches and cathedrals across Scotland, this year’s atmospheric festive concert features soloist Sean Shibe on classical guitar and Your tickets enable you to mingle at this prestigious event works by Vivaldi, Corelli, Bach and more. and buy the art before the show opens to the general public! For full event information go to The Edinburgh Art Fair runs Fri Nov 23-Sun Nov 25. www.scottishensemble.co.uk/concerts Check website for ticket prices and opening hours: Closing date Sat Nov 17 www.artedinburgh.com Closing Date November 10 TO ENTER GO TO WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK/WIN TO ENTER GO TO WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK/WIN NOT NEAR A GALLERY? GET ARTMAG DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR!

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Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania MURAL ART Academy of the Fine Arts was the first Philadelphia is home art museum and school in the US. Many to the country’s prominent American artists trained there, largest public arts including Mary Cassatt, Maxfield Parrish, programme. Dubbed Thomas Eakins, the film-maker David Lynch “the world’s largest and Alexander Calder. The Academy outdoor art gallery,” occupies two buildings. Its former Victorian its vacant lots, many Gothic home is an architectural jewel used as temporary admired for its floral motifs, stained glass, parking areas, are exposed iron beams, marble and coloured often overlooked by sculptural features. It is now a museum huge murals covering housing an internationally known collection the whole side of a of 19th and 20th century American paintings, neghbouring building. sculptures and works on paper. Next door is Philadelphia the modern school. www.pafa.org murals are community MEG SALIGMAN, 'PHILADELPHIA MUSES' projects. When a space becomes available, permission to and no political messages are permitted. FURTHER INFO paint on it must be obtained from the wall Over the years some 4,000 murals www.discoverphl.co.uk owner, who then also becomes the owner have been created, of which around 3,200 HOW TO GET THERE of the mural. (This can lead to uncertainty still survive. The average life of a mural is when a building changes hands.) 10-15 years, although more recent ones last American Airlines flies daily between The local neighbourhood then decides longer due to newer paints which withstand Glasgow and Philadelphia throughout what kind of art they would like to see, the elements better and a special solvent the peak summer season. Prices whereupon artists are invited to submit which both cleans and refreshes the colours. from £797 return p.p. in Economy and ideas, with the community having approval Reassuringly, there is virtually no graffiti £1,406 return p.p. in Business Class. of the final design. or other defacement. The little which does www.aa.co.uk Locals even help to create the mural, occur is reported immediately and removed. working under the artist’s direction using There are regular mural tours of various a kind of ‘colour by numbers’ system. The neighbourhoods by public trolley (tram), murals are 35 per cent City-funded (it’s an train, Segway or on foot. expensive process, what with scaffolding, www.muralarts.org cherry-pickers and the materials themselves)

PUBLIC ART ROBERT INDIANA, ‘LOVE’ Along with its murals, Philadelphia THE BUSINESS CLASS CABIN AVAILABLE ON has possibly the largest collection AMERICAN AIRLINES’ FLIGHTS BETWEEN GLASGOW AND PHILADELPHIA of indoor and outdoor public artworks in the US. WHERE TO STAY In 1959 the city pioneered the Percent for Art programme, which Located on the lively Avenue of the requires the inclusion of site-specific Arts, the city’s main performing arts public art in new construction or thoroughfare, the Cambria Hotel major redevelopment projects. Philadelphia Downtown Centre City This ground-breaking model has reflects its surroundings with jazz- resulted in over 600 public arworks influenced motifs throughout. and has been replicated in cities www.cambriaphiladelphia.com across the country. A few highlights include: Robert Indiana’s ‘Love’ sculpture, an icon of American pop culture, at JFK Plaza; Claes Oldenburg’s huge ‘Clothespin’ (or is it lovers embracing?) opposite City Hall; and Jordan Griska’s ‘Grumman Greenhouse’, a decommissioned Grumman S2F Tracker airplane, which seems to have crashed into the ground next to the the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. www.associationforpublicart.org

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 19 FEATURED ARTISTS SEVEN SISTERS

BRITISH WOMEN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW

MARY BEALE, ‘SELF PORTRAIT’, OIL ON SACKING, C.1675-80. COURTESY ST EDMUNDSBURY HERITAGE SERVICE (MOYSE’S HALL MUSEUM, BURY ST EDMUNDS)

declared that God created Eve as ‘a wife and friend, but not a slave’ to Adam. She was buried in the Sir Christopher Wren-designed parish church of St James, Piccadilly. It was heavily damaged in WWII bombing and Beale’s grave was obliterated, leaving no remains.

GWEN JOHN Known mainly for her portraits of anonymous LAURA KNIGHT, ‘SELF-PORTRAIT’, 1913. © THE TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF DAME LAURAKNIGHT DBE R A. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2018 female sitters, Welsh-born Gwen John (1876-1939) followed her younger brother, MARY BEALE her partner and book-keeper in their the artist Augustus John, to the Slade School Encouraged by her father, a keen amateur successful portrait studio. Mary gave ten per of Art, the only art school in Britain at the painter who paid for her art tuition, Mary cent of her earnings to charity. time which allowed female students, albeit Beale (1633-99) was one of the few 17th Beale experienced some of the most they were segregated from their male century women painters to make it to the top turbulent times in English history, from the colleagues. of their chosen profession. civil war and Oliver Cromwell’s brief regime In 1898 she moved to Paris, where She was fortunate to marry a man who as Lord Protector to the Great Fire of London she became a student of James McNeill also supported her art – just as well, since it and an outbreak of bubonic plague. Whistler. There she met many leading artists, kept them out of financial trouble when his She also had literary aspirations. including Matisse, Picasso and Brancusi. She own career stalled. Later he would become A committed Christian, in one text she exhibited in Paris and London in the early

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GWEN JOHN, ‘SELF PORTRAIT’, 1902, TATE

years of the 19th century, supporting her ELISABETH FRINK, ‘WAR HORSE’. COURTESY CHATSWORTH HOUSE TRUST meagre art income (at one time she squatted in a derelict building in London) working as Laura became the youngest student to be also taught at St Martin’s School of Art and an artist’s model, including for her sometime accepted into the Nottingham School of Art. the Royal College of Art. lover Rodin’s ‘The Muse’. As a female art student at the time she was A WWII bombing raid on an airbase near The most famous artist of the time, not permitted to paint nude models and her Suffolk home as well as her experience Rodin took their ten-year relationship less was restricted to working from casts and seeing footage of emaciated concentration seriously than she did. She wrote countless existing drawings. Deeply resenting this, her camp survivors informed her work for the fervent letters to him, and he eventually ‘Self-Portrait with Nude’ (now known simply rest of her life. Another influence was her distanced himself from her behind as ‘Self-Portrait’) was a clear challenge and rural upbringing surrounded by animals, and concierges and secretaries. reaction to those rules. One critic called it horses, dogs and birds recur in her work After her relationship with Rodin ended, ‘vulgar’. along with the male body. She was also John took solace in Catholicism. She A stellar period in her life began in 1928, influenced by Greek and Roman sculpture painted sympathetic portraits of nuns and when she became the first artist to be made and Aboriginal art. wrote of her desire to be ‘God's little artist’. a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932 she Her characteristic format was of the female was elected President of the Society of figure in three-quarter length, seated with Women Artists and in 1936 she became the hands in their lap. first woman artist since the 18th century to Painting never came easily to her (‘I don’t be made a full Royal Academician. often get a picture done’) and after her last During WWII she was appointed an exhibition in 1925, her output declined and Official War Artist and painted women she became increasingly reclusive. She died working in the new war-time occupations. in Dieppe (possibly of starvation, according In 1946 she observed the Nuremberg to one art historian) just days after the Trials, producing a large oil painting which outbreak of WWII. realistically depicted the Nazi war criminals in the dock, but with the walls of the LAURA KNIGHT courtroom missing to reveal a ruined city in Known for her behind the scenes portraits flames. of dancers, actors and circus performers In 1965 the Royal Academy held a as well as gypsies, Laura Knight (1877- retrospective of her work, the first time it had 1970) achieved a level of success in the honoured a woman with a solo exhibition. male-dominated British art establishment which paved the way for greater status and ELISABETH FRINK recognition for women artists. Sculptor Elisabeth Frink (1930-93) graduated MAGGI HAMBLING, ‘SELF-PORTRAIT’, OIL ON CANVAS, 2017. Her mother was a talented amateur from Chelsea School of Art, where she was FROM: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, JERWOOD GALLERY, artist and art tutor, and at the age of 13 immediately offered a teaching post. She HASTINGS, OCT 20-JAN 6, 2019

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VANESSA BELL, ‘ABSTRACT PAINTING’, was not widely recognised during her C.1914, OIL ON CANVAS. © ESTATE OF lifetime. For many years her fame stemmed VANESSA BELL. COURTESY HENRIETTA GARNETT. PHOTO © TATE from being the sister of Virginia Woolf, a member of the Bloomsbury Group that Bell work on Suffolk’s Aldeburgh co-created. Ironically, and perhaps out of beach, where the composer sibling admiration, Woolf wrote: ‘Words are Benjamin Britten, to whom it is an impure medium. Better by far to have dedicated, took afternoon walks. been born into the silent kingdom of paint.’ Sexually, Hambling described Although there had been group shows herself as "lesbionic" and once featuring Bell’s work previously, it was not showed up to film a TV show in until 2017 that a major retrospective was dinner jacket, bow tie and a false staged, at Dulwich Picture Gallery. moustache. She became the first artist in STELLA SNEAD residence at the National Gallery London-born surrealist painter, photographer (1980-81) and in 1995 received and collage artist Stella Snead (1910-2006) the Jerwood Prize for Painting first took up painting in her early twenties, and an OBE. inspired by watching an artist friend at work in Tenerife. She studied under the French VANESSA BELL abstract artist Amédée Ozenfant, a friend Connected through her mother, and colleague of Fernand Léger. Henry A favourite theme was tall male nudes a Pre-Raphaelite artist's model, to a large Moore came to Ozenfant’s studio to teach which became known as her ‘running men’, artistic circle which included Rudyard for a semester, and one of Snead’s fellow She said: “I have concentrated on the male Kipling, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was taught students was the surrealist painter Leonora because to me he is a subtle combination by John Singer Sargent (‘He generally tells Carrington. of strength and vulnerability...My running me that my things are far too grey’), an Snead moved to the United States in men are not athletes. They are vulnerable, early influence along with Whistler and the 1939 to flee World War II, spending time in they are running away from something, or Impressionists. New York (where Ozenfant had moved his towards it.” It was a London show of post- studio) and having her first solo exhibition, Also a talented graphic artist, printer, Impressionist paintings in 1910 which set her which was attended by the German Dadaist etcher and illustrator, she was named a CBE on her artistic course. ‘All was a sizzle of and Surrealist Max Ernst. in 1969, awarded an OBE in 1982 and has excitement, new relationships, new ideas, After New York she headed to California, two sculpture schools named after her. She different and intense emotions seemed leading a semi-nomadic lifestyle, often died of cancer shortly after her ‘Risen Christ’ crowding into one’s life,’ she wrote. She travelling by mail truck and discovering was installed at Liverpool Cathedral. returned repeatedly to Italy, influenced the American southwest, where she would by its vibrancy and colours, to paint sun- later settle for several years. By now her MAGGI HAMBLING dappled landscapes. paintings, as she put it, ‘had taken a jump Sculptor and painter Maggi Hambling (b. Although her paintings have been towards fantasy,’ featuring fantastical 1945) is best known for her portraits (notably rediscovered in recent decades, her work landscapes and mystical, semi-human of famous people such as jazz singer George creatures. During this period she Melly, comedian Max STELLA SNEAD, ‘SHIPROCK’. COURTESY KATHY FEHL had a series of solo exhibitions. Wall and actor/presenter Snead stopped painting in Stephen Fry), seascapes the 1950s due to the onset of and public sculptures and depression, with which she would also admired for her works struggle for the rest of her life. She on paper. did not exhibit between 1950 and Her public works 1999. include ‘A Conversation She later took up photography with Oscar Wilde’ (1998) and published eight books of opposite London’s images, including selections Charing Cross station, based on multiple trips to India a green granite coffin in the 1960s, many captured with which also serves as a a surrealist’s eye. She returned bench with Oscar’s head, to painting in the late 1980s, shoulders and hands when her failing eyesight made popping out at one end developing prints difficult. She for a ‘chat’ with the sitter, completed her last painting in and ‘Scallop’ (2003), a 1995. She died in New York. 15-foot high stainless steel

22 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 MONA MANIA Why is the world's most famous painting so popular?

hought to be a on display at the Tokyo National portrait of Lisa Museum, a woman sprayed it with Gherardini, the wife red paint as a protest against that of the Florentine museum's failure to provide access silk merchant for disabled people, and in 2009 TFrancesco del Giocondo - hence a Russian woman, distraught over its Italian title ‘La Gioconda’, being denied French citizenship, which also means ‘the jovial one’ threw a ceramic teacup at it - the ‘Mona Lisa’ (‘Mona’ in Italian (purchased in the Louvre giftshop), being a polite form of address, which shattered against the glass. originating as ‘ma donna’ and So why is the ‘Mona Lisa’ so similar to ‘Ma’am’) has become famous, when to most observers it Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous seems no different from countless work. But this was not always the other Renaissance portraits? For case, and until the 20th century one thing, Leonardo created it it was simply one among many using a hitherto unkown technique highly regarded works by the called ‘sfumato’ (from the Italian artist. sfumare, meaning to tone down or Leonardo just couldn’t let go literally to evaporate like smoke), of it. Begun in 1503, it was still in in which he abandoned the norm the artist’s possession when he at the time of proceeding from died 16 years later. Francesco an outline, instead using different del Giocondo, who probably tones and shades of paint to create commissioned the painting, was an illusion of light and shadow. not the only one of Leonardo’s Another reason is the clients to be disappointed. The mysterious smile. Is she happy or artist became notorious for failing sad? Is she even smiling at all? And to deliver on his assignments, then there’s the look. And what a usually because his butterfly The painting really entered the public’s look. The only one of Leonardo’s mind would set him off exploring other consciousness in 1911, when its theft - by portraits in which the subject looks directly subjects. an Italian-born museum employee who out of the canvas, he drew her eyes in The painting was inherited along with wished to repatriate it to Da Vinci’s native a specific way, so that due to an optical other works by da Vinci’s pupil and assistant Italy - was reported worldwide. Before illusion they appear to follow the viewer Salai. Its current owner, the Louvre Museum the real thief was apprehended and from every angle. in Paris, lists it as having entered the French the painting recovered, none other than Six million people visit the ‘Mona Lisa’ royal collection in 1518. This supports the Picasso, who lived in Paris at the time, came every year in the Louvre. Some even get belief that Salai, who died in 1525, sold it under suspicion and was brought in for close enough to see her. to King Francis I. (Da Vinci died in France questioning. In the meantime six different in virtual exile from Italy and Francis was American collectors each paid $300,000 for a fervent supporter.) The painting was kept what they thought was the painting. at the Palace of Fontainebleau, where it The painting’s tribulations did not end remained until Louis XIV moved it to the there. In 1956 part of it was damaged when Palace of Versailles. After the French a vandal threw acid at it and in the same Revolution, it became one of the first year a rock was thrown at it, dislodging a artworks to be exhibited in the Louvre, which speck of pigment near the left elbow, which had become a national museum – but not was later restored. Even after the painting before it spent a brief period in the bedroom was placed behind bullet-proof glass, the of Napoleon in the Tuileries Palace. ADMIRING FROM AFAR. SOME OF THE SIX MILLION VISITORS attacks did not stop. In 1974, while it was A YEAR WHO TRY TO LOCK EYES WITH HER

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AUTUMN GOLD until 3 November WINTER EXHIBITION 10 November - 31 December EDINBURGH ART FAIR The Whitehouse Gallery STAND B3 47 St Mary’s Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DU t: 01557 330223 e: [email protected] www.whitehousegallery.co.uk louise o’hara SAORSA ART GALLERY ART SAORSA Jo Bennett SOLO EXHIBITION BY Original Pictures EDINBURGH TOMMY FITCHET ART FAIR ARTIST/OWNER STAND 4 TOMMY FITCHET FROM THE MOUNTAINS As illustrated Geoffrey Key TO THE SEA ‘Brooding Hills’ plus a wide range of excellent artists 25 Oct - 18 Nov Opening night Friday 25 Oct, 6-8pm

An exhibition of new landscape paintings on glass and canvas from Tommy’s travels around Scotland

8 Deanhaugh Street Edinburgh, EH4 1LY EDINBURGH 0131 343 1126 ART FAIR www.saorsa-art.com www.jobennettoriginals.co.uk STAND A13 www.tommyfitchet.com Tel:01614304960 or 07713618214 ‘Deserted’

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The Laurel Gallery in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge area has affordable, contemporary work by mainly Scottish-based artists and craftmakers, including paintings, ceramics, sculptures, glass art and jewellery. They also have a small selection of hand-painted furniture and are stockists of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™ and Wall Paint.

ere is a small selection of Jo Bennett Originals aims to make art Nestled in the picturesque Scottish Borders exhibitors whose work can accessible and to provide a pleasant town of Peebles, the Moy Mackay Gallery be seen and bought at this environment where it can be viewed and has the award-winning owner’s signature year’s Edinburgh Art Fair. decisions made without pressure. They 'felted paintings' as well as work by some of See preview p43. represent a number of artists and offer quality the country's finest contemporary artists. The H and value from an extremely varied range gallery shows paintings, ceramics, glass and One of Scotland’s leading independent of work. They exhibit at selected venues jewellery in regularly changing exhibitions outlets, Alpha Art Gallery in Edinburgh throughout the UK as well as arranging throughout the year. represents a wide variety of work by private exhibitions and viewings for clients. established and emerging artists, both local Based in the historic “artists’ town” of and international. The eclectic range includes Edinburgh’s Saorsa Art Gallery (the name Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, the original artwork, sculpture and limited edition is Scots Gaelic for freedom) promotes the Whitehouse Gallery represents some of the prints. Their Edinburgh Art Fair booth will superb glass paintings by owner/artist best artists and makers in Scotland and the feature original watercolour and gouache Tommy Fitchet alongside other wonderfully UK. Emerging talents are also introduced paintings by Ron Lawson as well as work by talented and diverse painters, ceramicists in six changing mixed exhibitions a year Jack Frame, Robert Ryan, Philip Raskin and and sculptors. This will be Saorsa's fourth spread over two floors, making it one of the Patsy McArthur among others. See ad p3. appearance at the Edinburgh Art Fair. leading galleries in southwest Scotland.

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WINTER EXHIBITION 10 November – 28 February Shazia Mahmood ‘Scotland’

24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD 01224 625629 • [email protected] Open Mon–Sat from 10am www.galleryheinzel.com

MILTON ART GALLERY Cornflowers and Scabious

OCTOBER ROBERT GRANT NOVEMBER RONA KANT ‘West Coast Seas’ Susie B Lee ‘West

Colin Brown Stephanie Vandem Susie B Lee

Catriona MacEachen Strathspey

Open all week Milton of Crathes Mon-Sat 10-5 Banchory 10am-5pm MON, THU, FRI, SAT. AB31 5QH Sun 11-5 [email protected] 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater • 013397 55888 01330 844664 www.larksgallery.com www.miltonart.com

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FRANCES WALKER, ‘ON THE WAY TO CRUDEN BAY’, 2016 (PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS)

orks from one of JULIA JEFFREY, Scotland’s most ‘ELIZA celebrated IN THE GARDEN’ contemporary (INVERARITY artists are now being GALLERY) exhibitedW in the lobby of Aberdeen’s newest luxury hotel. To coincide with the recent launch of the Sandman Signature Aberdeen Hotel four pieces by multi- media artist Rachel Maclean, Scotland’s representative at the 2017 Venice Biennale, have been loaned by Aberdeen Art Gallery. From Maclean’s 2013 I Heart Scotland exhibition, each piece explores Scottish national identity and pride in a surreal vision of modern Scotland. The works made over the last eight years, showcasing will be on loan until late October/early Walker's mastery of various techniques, November, keeping some of the Aberdeen such as lithography, screenprinting and Art Gallery’s collection in public view etching, in depictions of the Scottish until it reopens in 2019 after a £30 million landscape. redevelopment. Following the initial loan, Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930, Frances Walker the hotel will continue its association with studied at Edinburgh College of Art before the gallery to showcase more artwork. taking up a post as visiting teacher of art for www.sandmansignature.co.uk the Hebrides. This began a life-long love of wild and desolate places and since then Spectral and Sepia at the Inverarity she has chosen to depict the most remote Gallery in Alvah brings together a line-up landscapes, her compositions usually of artists working in monochrome, sepia and based on coastal reaches, craggy rocks muted palettes. The vibe is Victorian with an and deserted beaches. She later took up undercurrent of ethereal spookiness - just in a post at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. time for Halloween. Oct 5-Nov 30, Since retirement she has divided her time www.inveraritygallery.com between Aberdeen and the Western Isles, especially Tiree. Until Nov 3, Frances Walker: ...So Far at Peacock Visual www.peacockvisualarts.com Arts in Aberdeen features a group of prints

WORKS FROM RACHEL MACLEAN’S I HEART SCOTLAND EXHIBITION HANG IN THE SANDMAN SIGNATURE ABERDEEN HOTEL LOBBY ALONGSIDE HANGING GLASS UMBRELLAS. ALL MACLEAN WORKS © THE ARTIST. ABERDEEN ART GALLERY & MUSEUMS COLLECTIONS.

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The Braemar gallery Contemporary art gallery in Royal Deeside

34 Mar Road, Braemar, Aberdeenshire AB35 5YL 013397 41681 [email protected] www.braemargallery.co.uk

Knock GALLERY 2 Gallery Open Perched on the hills above the village of Crathie, every day Knock Gallery shows the work of contemporary from Scottish and Central European artists. 9.30 – 5.30 Visitors to the gallery can take in the spectacular, sweeping views of Lochnagar mountain and the Dee valley, looking across to Balmoral Castle from the gallery gardens. OPEN DAY

Alicja Urbaniak Vladimir Vilenchyts Joanna Heier 4 NOV 12 – 4PM

GUEST ARTIST GILLIAN PARK Autumn Gold

Gallery 2 offers a complete range of mouldings, original art and contract picture framing for hotels, pubs and restaurants. With a large selection of limited editions and unique gifts.

72 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock Crathie by Ballater, Aberdeenshire AB35 5UP 01563 550303 013397 42360 [email protected] www.knockgallery.co.uk www.gallery2kilmarnock.co.uk Gallery2Kilmarnock

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KEITH SALMON, 'BELOW GOATFELL, WINTER, GLEN ROSA,' GRAPHITE ON PAPER (COURTYARD STUDIOS/ HARBOUR ARTS CENTRE)

he 25th Save The Children by artists with the proceeds going entirely to Ayrshire Art Exhibition returns charity. There are small frames to fit at only to the Maclaurin Art Gallery £10 each. in the beautiful grounds of This year’s raffle prize, a scene in Glen Rozelle House in Ayr. Some Afton, has been painted by Julie Winter, 250T artists will each be exhibiting one or winner of the 2017 annual competition. Oct two of their paintings, making for one of 15-Nov 11, www.savethechildrenayr.org.uk, Scotland’s most attractive art exhibitions, www.themaclaurin.org.uk with work available at a wide range of prices. Artist and makers based in WASPS For a second year visitors can buy Courtyard Studios in Irvine showcase their Cameo Cards - unframed, postcard-size work in the fourth Annual Exhibition at the paintings priced at £50 each and donated Harbour Arts Centre. Participants include visual artists, designers, bookbinders, jewellers, photographers, ceramicists and textile artists. Until Nov 2, www.facebook. com/courtyardstudios, www.facebook.com/ HarbourArtsCentre

Change in Your Hand: More Clay, Less Plastic at the Barony Centre in West Kilbride features over 90 works by 19 members of the Scottish Potters Association. Also JULIE WINTER, ‘GLENAFTON, SUMMERTIME’ (SAVE THE CHILDREN AYRSHIRE ART EXHIBITION/MACLAURIN ART on display are images of ceramics which GALLERY) have accompanied the many international exhibitions on the “more clay, less plastic” theme which have taken place in Europe over the last few years to encourage reduction in the use of disposable plastic in favour of clay, from which many household items, such as colanders, cups, plates and bowls, were once made. This is the first UK exhibition of its kind. Until Oct 20, www.scottishpotters.org, www.crafttownscotland.org

CERAMIC BOWL BY LAUREN MOREIRA (CHANGE IN YOUR HAND: MORE CLAY, LESS PLASTIC/BARONY CENTRE)

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THE CRAFTERS Festive Exhibition a mixed exhibition ART & DESIGN FAIR 29 Sep to 28 Nov Art Auction with Bonhams 25 Oct An exclusive seasonal shopping More information on website experience showcasing the very best in art, craft & design 17 & 18 November 10am–5pm £2 entry fee (children free) Ample free parking & disabled access Refreshments provided by Macmillan Cancer Support A yearly event since 2008

‘In Russet’ by Claire Beattie Claire Russet’ by ‘In Border Union Showground Dancing Light Gallery Springwood Park Whitmuir, Near Lamancha, Edinburgh, EH46 7BB 01968 660200 | Open: 10am to 5pm Mon to Sun Kelso TD5 8LS [email protected] www.dancinglightgallery.co.uk www.thecrafters.co.uk Joni, Jim Macdonald

The Big

Exhibition 9th November – 8th December “Reflections” ll ne o o niel tlente tists

THE THREE FISHES GALLERY & FRAMING 19B Eastgate, Peebles, 01721 720860 www.thegallerymelrose.co.uk Mon – Fri (closed Wed) 10.00 –17.00 Sat 11.00 –16.30 www.thethreefishesgalleryandframing.co.uk Tel: 01896 208190

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ADAM BRUCE THOMSON, ‘LOWOOD BRIDGE’ (EMMA HERDMAN GALLERY)

and prizes throughout October. Nov 17 & 18, Border Union Showground, Springwood Park, Kelso, www.thecrafters.co.uk

Now in its fifth year, Rapt in Winter at the Eastgate Theatre in Peebles is an annual celebration of art and craft featuring artists, galleries, workshops and studios in and around Peebles. Participating venues include Moy Mackay Gallery (Peebles), Hill House Art Gallery (Broughton), Dancing Light Gallery (Whitmuir) and The Framing Gallery (Innerleithen). Nov 24 & 25 Nov, www.eastgatearts.com

Adam B at the Emma Herdman Gallery

STERLING SILVER EARRINGS BY in Melrose, the newest art space in the MURDOCH KERSE OF FINLAY MACKAY Borders, is a rare opportunity to see work DESIGN (CRAFTERS ART & DESIGN FAIR) by the acclaimed Edinburgh artist, Adam Bruce Thomson OBE RSA PRSW (1885-1976). et some great seasonal An intimate selection of his depictions of the shopping ideas at Scottish Borders includes iconic subjects the eleventh annual such as Melrose Abbey and Lowood Bridge. Crafters Art & Design Guy Peploe, managing director of Emma Herdman Gallery Fair, where over 60 The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, called sellers will be

Thomson “a painter of great integrity Shirley Pinder ‘Daffoldils 2018’ showing a wide whose long, productive life tells the G range of original story of Scottish art and craft, including woodwork, painting for the first glass, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, three quarters of the paintings and leatherwork. Exhibiting 20th century.” artists and makers are happy to talk Thomson served in about their work. Special guests this WW1 before returning to year are the Northumbria Basketry Group Edinburgh College of with an exhibition on the rich heritage of Art, where he taught basket weaving. etching, composition The fair is promoted by The Crafters, and still life to the a cooperative of artists and painting school and colour designers currently Some of the 1 The Wynd theory to art and architecture celebrating their artists to see: Buccleuch Street students. He continued at ECA Melrose TD6 9LD 20th year. You can Clare Brownlow after retirement as an examiner 07503 383 253 see their work at Connie Martin and a Trustee. Also Treasurer for Emma Herdman the member-run Tues-Thur 10-2.30pm seven years at the Royal Scottish Fiona Luing shop in Melrose, Fri-Sat 10-4pm Academy and President for a further Helen Wilson where there are Linda Foster Or by appointment seven of the Royal Scottish Society promotions Lynn Hanley of Painters in Watercolour, he was Mark Haillay ‘A hidden gem awarded an OBE in 1963. Oct 19-Dec Paul Fieldsend in the beautiful STAG BY STOBO 24, www.emmaherdman.com/ Robert Anderson SILVER AND Shirley Pinder town of Melrose’ SCULPTURE STUDIO gallery (RAPT IN WINTER/ & Sivi Davey EASTGATE THEATRE)

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AUTUMN EXHIBITION 7 Oct - 22 Dec

Beneath the bark…

51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 Tues - Sat 10-4 www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk Wed 10-1 [email protected]

LKIRK ARM FLAT SE HOTEL S CAT www.selkirkarmshotel.co.uk GALLERY

and cafe ‘Redshank’ – Kittie Jones October Kittie Jones Artist and Printmaker November BOOK DIRECT ON 01557 330402 Open 7 days Lucy Hadley Illustrator

2 Market Place ‘Whithorn Harbour’ – Lucy Hadley Lauder Berwickshire TD2 6SR 01578 722808

www.flatcatgallery.co.uk The Selkirk Arms Hotel, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway DG6 4JG

32 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

PAUL CARRUTHER, ‘LIFEGUARD’, WINNER OF THE BRITISH LIFE PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARD (GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE)

LOUISE HOPKINS, ‘FLYING FOX’, 2018, INSTALLATION SHOT, 2018 PHOTO: MIKE BOLAM (CAMPLE LINE)

he outcome of a nine-month holiday. There is also a special award for To celebrate the Kirkcudbright Festival period of development, Louise the best documentary feature. The awards of Light, Kirkcudbright Galleries Hopkins: Flying Fox at Cample encourage photographers to elevate the presents Illumaphonium, an interactive T Line near Thornhill is the first commonplace and familiar into something light installation created by musician formal presentation of the artist’s work in a compelling or fascinating through craft, and inventor Michael Davis. The semi- rural setting. A large scale work of geometric creativity and discipline. acoustic, semi-automatic, multi-player abstraction on an architectural scale and Also showing is an exhibition of work by musical sculpture stands over three and based on a concentrated arrangement of members of the Dumfries Camera Club (Oct a half metres tall and consists of more repeated colours and forms, ‘Flying Fox’ was 12-Nov 17) and Masters of Print: The British than a hundred illuminated chime bars, made specifically for the Cample Line gallery. Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (Nov each of which responds to touch, with Keen to connect her project directly 1–17), a selection of 59 framed photographic ever-changing patterns of light and sound with the buildings around Cample Line, prints in colour and black and white and spreading out like waves over the giant Hopkins explores here how abstraction and featuring portraiture, landscape and other instrument’s surface. Oct 5-Nov 4, environment can relate. She explains: “In genres. www.dumgal.gov.uk/gracefield www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk my work the connection between inside and out has always been important. A linking Peaceful Day at Mossyard factor in all my work is that it addresses and responds to context.” ‘Flying Fox’ will be shown along with a group of ten new and recent works on paper. Until Dec 15, www.campleline.org.uk

It’s photography season at Gracefield From the Beach, Dalbeag Arts Centre in Dumfries. The British Life Photographic Awards (Oct 13-Nov 17) highlights the work of established and Atlantic Waves, Isle of Lewis emerging photographers of all ages, both Clience Studio professional and amateur. A celebration Seascape and Landscape paintings by of British people at work, at play and in the community, the images are in ten Angela Lawrence categories covering everything from street The beauty, changing time and tides of the Galloway Coast are a and rural life to portraiture and Brits on main focus of this artist’s gallery in Castle Douglas, with dramatic Highland and Lake District scenery also highlighted, mostly in oils. Other themes include Sea Spirits and Reflections. Newest paintings and work in progress on show, with a wide selection of Luskentyre signed giclee prints and art gifts from her paintings also available. Commissions welcome. An exhibitor at prestigious venues (most recently at RSA and the McLaurin Galleries) and a recent winner in the ArtistInfo global Seascape Artist competition.

Open 10.30am-5pm, Mon-Sat Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street Castle Douglas DG7 1DS 01556 504318 | www.cliencestudio.co.uk | @cliencestudio ILLUMAPHONIUM (KIRKCUDBRIGHT GALLERIES)

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Elin Isaksson & Kirkcudbright Illumaphonium Primary School Installation Friday 5 October Friday 5 October to Sunday 4 November 2018 to Sunday 28 October 2018

Kirkcudbright Galleries, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4AA Admission Free

Summer Opening Times Winter Opening Times (from 29 October 2018) Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 4pm Sunday 12pm - 5pm Sunday 12pm - 4pm

www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk

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PAINTED FISH BY ORTAIRE DE COUPIGNY (EDUARDO ALESSANDRO STUDIOS)

V&A Dundee architect Kengo Kuma has unveiled the first two of five themed Dundee Design Project rooms at Apex City Quay rt and Design: A Hotel & Spa, which overlook the is a new concept store Celebration at Gallery Q new museum. One room features exclusive opening soon in the heart in Dundee features some prints of Kuma’s original sketches, while of Dundee to showcase of Scotland’s leading artists the second is adorned with framed posters and craftmakers, including marking the inaugural exhibition, Ocean and sell design and crafts many members of the Royal Liners: Speed and Style. Kuma himself direct from the makers. Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour stayed in these very rooms during his Asuch as Helga Chart, Claire Harkess and frequent visits to the city in the build-up to 19 Commercial Street Alice McMurrough. Until Oct 27, the museum’s launch. Dundee DD1 3DD www.galleryq.co.uk www.apexhotels.co.uk [email protected] www.dundeedesignproject.com Since opening in 1978, Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry has staged a 10 minute walk to the V&A winter show each year to showcase the extraordinary wealth and diversity of artistic talent, particularly in the northeast of Scotland. This year’s selection features Kinblethmont another impressive display of paintings, ceramics, wood, jewellery and applied Gallery arts by both established and emerging names. They include the up and coming Dundee artist Ross Grant Thomson’s vibrant landscapes and French artist Ortaire de Coupigny’s painted fish (pictured). Nov 10- Feb, 2019, www.eastudios.com GEORGE DONALD RSA RSW, ‘LOOKING BACK’, ACRYLIC & COLLAGE ON LINEN BOARD (GALLERY Q)

V&A DUNDEE ARCHITECT KENGO KUMA IN ONE OF THE APEX CITY QUAY HOTEL & SPA ROOMS FEATURING PRINTS OF HIS ORIGINAL SKETCHES

Reflections - Exhibition 29th September - 14th October

Clare Arbuthnott Claire Harkess James Morrison

Kinblethmont Gallery Arbroath - DD114RW www.kinblethmontgallery.co.uk

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Helen Flockhart: Linger Awhile 05.10.18 Exhibition: 12 Oct to 20 Jan 2019 10.11.18 Linlithgow Burgh Halls the glass work of Gallery Tour - 22 Nov, 6.30pm. £5 .. The Cross, West Lothian, EH49 7AH Annica Sandstrom & David Kaplan Mon-Sat 9-5, Sun 11-5. Free entry 01506 340700 | linlithgowburghhalls.co.uk 5 William Street Edinburgh 28.07.18 www.galleryten.co.uk5 William Street Edinburgh [email protected] - [email protected]

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LINDEAN MILL GLASS, COLOUR movies and advertising TUMBLERS AND CARAFE. PHOTO: which exploded in the post- ANNICA SANDSTRÖM (GALLERY TEN) WWII consumer boom. Nov 17-Jun 2, 2019, OPENING HOURS: MON-SAT: 11AM-5PM www.nationalgalleries.org SUN: 12PM-5PM

Conversations with Paolozzi at the Royal Scottish Academy sees twelve RSA members respond to the legacy of the Leith-born artist. Timed to coincide with the publication of ‘Paolozzi RE 3RD - 19TH NOVEMBER 2018 at Large in Edinburgh’ by o celebrate 40 years as glass Luath Press, the exhibition considers the makers based in Scotland, influence Paolozzi, a pioneer of the Pop Annica Sandström and David Art movement credited with bringing a new Kaplan of Lindean Mill Glass, international modernism to art in Scotland, Scotland’s longest established continues to have on Scottish art today. Until glassT studio, are featured in a retrospective Oct 28, www.royalscottishacademy.org JOSIE HUDSON of their work at Gallery Ten, MELPOMENI IRAKLEOUS where they were named winners NATALIE SNEDDEN of the 2017 Scottish Glass Society PATRIOTHALL GALLERY IZZY THOMSON 1 PATRIOTHALL, exhibition prize. LUKE VINNICOMBE STOCKBRIDGE, A new set of glass panels EDINBURGH KATIE WATSON will be shown for the first EH3 5AY time alongside a selection of CONTACT: production work, including their [email protected] popular wine glasses. There will also be an opportunity to purchase some of their beautiful Graal works from the 1980s and ‘90s. No longer in production, these rare pieces are much sought after. Oct 5-Nov 10, www.galleryten.co.uk

I Want to be a Machine at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art/Modern Two reveals how a fascination for machines and mechanical processes inspired the work of both Andy EDUARDO PAOLOZZI (1924–2005), ‘METALLISATION OF A DREAM’, 1963, Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi. The PRINT, SCREENPRINT ON PAPER, COLLECTION: NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND, BEQUEATHED BY GABRIELLE KEILLER 1995 © TRUSTEES title is a quote by Andy Warhol OF THE PAOLOZZI FOUNDATION, LICENSED BY DACS 2018 (SCOTTISH in a 1963 interview in which he NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART/MODERN TWO) spoke of his desire to create art which reflected and celebrated an increasingly mechanised, industrial society. At the same time, across the Atlantic Eduardo Paolozzi was also responding to the beauty he found in machine forms, fascinated by the interface between man and machine in robots, computers and electronic storage of knowledge. Both artists also drew inspiration from popular and GRAHAM FAGEN RSA, ’OUT SHARED, COMMON, PRIVATE SPACE’, 2011, commercial imagery in packaging, BRONZE, ENAMEL AND EBONY (ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY)

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ALLUSION III 10 november to 2 december 2018 private view: friday 9 november 6-8pm

rgi artists who celebrate the narrative tradition Ade Adesina, Reinhard Behrens, June Carey, Jimmy Cosgrove, Jim Dunbar, Ronald Forbes, Gordon Mitchell, Neil Macdonald, Neil MacPherson, Alice McMurrough, Heather Nevay, Murray SIMON LAURIE Robertson, Peter Thomson, James Tweedie, Helen Wilson & Adrian Wiszniewski JOCK MACINNES ASTRID TRÜGG 6 october to Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am-5pm 4 november 2018 Sunday 12-5pm | closed Monday private view: 7-8 Stanley Road, Gullane EH31 2AD friday 5 october 6-8pm t: 01620 249389 | e: [email protected] www.fidrafineart.co.uk

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BRYAN ANGUS, 'FLIGHT', LINO PRINT, 2018 (DUNDAS STREET GALLERY) IAN PEARSALL, ‘STEEL (SHELTON BAR)’ (ART & CRAFT COLLECTIVE)

toke-on-Trent artist Ian Pearsall and collage. A painting may be begun, makes his Scottish debut at Art discarded, revisited and resolved over a & Craft Collective with Fire and period of years until something essential Light, a selection of drawings coalesces. from his ‘Steel’ series inspired Interwoven with passages culled from Sby the former Shelton Bar Iron Company in literature, anecdotes, jokes and images Stoke, where his great-great grandfather from cinema, these elements are combined www.spiltmilkgallery.com William Asher started work in 1859 at the to make intimate and often dream-like @spiltmilkgallery age of 16. paintings that Cranston calls “pockets of Pearsall says: “I wanted to convey the history.” Oct 27-Dec 21, excitement, drama, light, smoke, sparks, fire www.inglebygallery.com and all that working with steel implies.” Oct 19-Dec 18, www.artcraftcollective.co.uk Following a hugely positive response to his prints at this year’s RSA Summer Open In the largest exhibition of his work to date, exhibition, Banff-based printmaker and Andrew Cranston: But The Dream Had No painter Bryan Angus brings 40 artworks, Sound at Ingleby Gallery shows how he many made in 2018 and as yet unseen by the draws on a variety of sources, including public, to Edinburgh’s Dundas Street Gallery. personal recollections and family histories, Bryan trained at Gray’s School of Art in confirming his description of himself as a the 1970s and 80s. For the last 15 years he storyteller of sorts. has been facilitating creative projects as tutor, Cranston works directly onto the linen artist and director of The Creative Retreat, covers of second hand hardback books, a residential arts centre on the Moray Firth, often bleaching the surface or manipulating where he was featured on BBC’s Countryfile his materials in layers of paint, varnish making a lino print of Gardenstown with presenter Helen Skelton. The richly patterned quality of his images and the high level of craftsmanship have this year won him commissions for luxury malt packaging for a Diageo- owned distillery and bespoke artworks for Saga Cruises luxury cabins. Oct 6-13, www.bryanangusart.com

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DOREEN INGEBRIGTSEN HOMECOMING EXHIBITON AleksandraKargul Art

‘Homecoming’ is inspired by Doreen’s recent return visit to Scotland. Showing a variety of artworks including her Scottish themed work & her motorsport art. 1-5 October Exhibiting throughout October & November at Bass Rock Gallery 144 High Street, Dunbar, East Lothian EH42 1JJ www.coralshedstudios.com FROM ART... [email protected] TO CRAFT Lithography to linoprint, cabinet making to clothes and much more Neil Martin ‘Car Auction, Jaguar XKSS’ ‘Car Auction,

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AUTHOR IAN RANKIN AT THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF LAST YEAR’S EDINBURGH ART FAIR

today. Nov 10-Dec 4, www.fidrafineart.co.uk Also showing: Simon Laurie, Jock MacInnes & Astrid Trügg, Oct 6-Nov 4.

Amassed over some 50 years, The Torrance Collection of Scottish art is being put up for sale in a one-off event at the Torrance Gallery. Expect a wide range of styles and media at great prices. Gallery he Edinburgh Art Fair returns Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) artists working owner Brian Torrance says of the collection: to the Corn Exchange with in the narrative tradition, a genre with a long “We have loved collecting it, but the time over 60 galleries showcasing lineage in Scotland. has come to clear the decks!” Oct 13-27, work by over 500 artists. The works featured here invite a www.torrancegallery.co.uk Now established as the more personal response, with clues foremostT event of its kind in the UK outside sometimes found in the titles of the London, it has generated over £1 million in works. Any definitive meaning is often sales in each of the last five years. Prices deliberately buried, and viewers are range from around £100 to £100,000. invited to read their own narratives into This year will see exhibitors from as the often beguiling images. far away as China and South Korea line This is the third incarnation of the up alongside galleries from throughout RGI Allusion Group after shows at the the UK and Ireland. The wide range of Kelly Gallery in Glasgow in 2015 and work includes paintings, prints, glassware, the Tatha Gallery in Newport on Tay ceramics and sculpture in marble, metal, in 2017. It is a great opportunity to see bronze, wood and stone. work by some of the most talented and There are also artist demonstrations imaginative artists working in Scotland and talks, kids’ art classes and an open easel station where you can try your hand at creating your own masterpiece under the guidance of staff from the Edinburgh Art Shop. Nov 23-25, www.artedinburgh.com

Trading from their new premises in Gullane, Fidra Fine Art presents Allusion III, a selection of work by 16 Royal Glasgow

A Bevy of Swans 138th Annual Claire Harkess RSW Open Exhibition ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY UPPER GALLERIES THE MOUND, EDINBURGH 26 Nov – 13 Dec WWW.RSW.ORG.UK ALICE MCMURROUGH, ‘THE RETURN OF GRACE’ (FIDRA FINE ART)

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The Torrance Collection ½ Price Sale 13-27 October We have over 100 paintings in the Torrance Collection for which we have no room, so rather than have them in storage we wish to give our customers A Craft Whodunnit the opportunity to have a piece of Scottish art at half the wall price. 3 November 2018 - 10 February 2019 Fife Contemporary @ Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

Bridge & Boozey, North Queensferry Bridge & Boozey, 1 Abbot Street | Dunfermline | KY12 7NL | 01383 602365 Stuart Herd Open daily - hours vary 1–17 Nov Check www.fcac.co.uk for details Admission free 36 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6JN @fifecontemp | @ONatDCLG 0131 556 6366 [email protected] www.torrancegallery.co.uk THE TORRANCE THE TORRANCE GALLERY Picture framing service from our own workshops

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he result of a collaboration between Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop (FDPW) and Mino Art Info in Japan, Paper From AcrossT the Sea: Washi Umi o Koete at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries brings together the ancient Japanese tradition of papermaking called Washi and contemporary Scottish printmaking in an exhibition of hand-made fine art prints. For three months 13 artists from FDPW experimented with a variety of printing techniques, including etching, screenprinting and linocut, on five different types of hand-made paper supplied by the master papermakers of Mino, one of the last three remaining traditional papermaking regions in Japan and a UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site. CALUM COLVIN RSA, ‘MICHAEL MARRA’ (TATHA GALLERY) The result is a suite of 13 original, hand- work by a select group of invited Scottish made prints inspired by sources as diverse artists responding to the area in paint, print, as the Japanese summerhouse in Pittencrieff photography and sculpture. Park, the Forth Bridges, beehives, selkies Highlights include a large photographic and standing stones. Until Jan 6, 2019, artwork by Calum Colvin RSA depicting www.onfife.com/museums the Dundee musician Michael Marra. oil paintings of the Tay Estuary by Alan Greig It has been over 175 years since the and Robert Macmillan and Kate Downie discovery which changed how we view and RSA’s monoprints inspired by the quality of document the world around us. William light over the River Tay. Until Nov 3, Henry Fox Talbot’s photographic process www.tathagallery.com patent did not apply to Scotland, and so experiment abounded north of the border, with St Andrews luminaries, Dr John Adamson, Hugh Lyon Playfair, Alexander Govan, Admiral William Maitland Dougall, Lord Kinnaird, Thomas Rodger, Robert Adamson, David Octavius Hill, and Sir David Brewster among the first amateur and professional Scottish photographers. Celebrating this long line of Scottish photographers, the St Andrews Photography Festival is spread across 12 non-traditional venues. Until Oct 28, www.standrewsphotographyfestival.com

Tay Projects at Tatha Gallery in Newport- on-Tay offers a multi-dimensional view of Dundee, the River Tay and the area now ‘ANDREW AND HARRIET MILNE AT HOME IN PERTH – SELF TAKEN’ © IAN WALLACE 2018 (ST ANDREWS PHOTOGRAPHY known as Tay Country through diverse FESTIVAL)

CATHERINE KING, ‘CONNECTIONS’ (DUNFERMLINE CARNEGIE LIBRARY & GALLERIES)

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Maryann Ryves ‘City Snowdrops’ Affordable Christmas Art Exhibition to 25 Jan 2019 THE QUAY GALLERY All works £850 and below. Featuring Scottish Contemporary art and ceramics 33 High Street, Aberdour, Fife ‘Moor of Ardoch’ 3’ x 4’ T 01383 860602 138 South Street, St Andrews KY16 9EQ Yvonne Hair Open from Easter until Christmas. Mon, Thurs - Sun 01334 474331 www.thequaygallery.co.uk [email protected] www.sprosongallery.com sprosongallery

44 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 GLASGOW & GREATER GLASGOW

ELIZABETH COPE, ‘DENISE WITH CAT’ (COMPASS GALLERY) Scottish Society of would have been his 90th Botanical Artists birthday, a retrospective of Third Annual Exhibition: 50 paintings and etchings Shapes of Nature has been organised by his two daughters in a selling exhibition at the Glasgow Art Club, the first solo show of his work in the city. Also featured are works by Anne Redpath and Michie’s father, James. lizabeth Cope: Seduced In his self-published David Michie: A by the Smell of Paint Sketchbook, he wrote of his work: ‘There at Compass Gallery is not a single enduring theme, except my Epiphyllums, Margaret Walty is the Irish painter’s continuing curiosity for what I have found first solo exhibition in around me.’ Oct 20-Nov 10, Lillie Art Gallery Station Road, Milngavie, Glasgow G62 8BZ Scotland. Inspired by the principles of late www.glasgowartclub.co.uk E19th century/early 20th century artists 29th September to 1st November 2018 such as Degas, Van Gogh and Matisse The Glasgow Society of Women Artists Open: 10am – 1pm & 2pm – 5pm Tuesday – Saturday (closed Sunday & Monday) and particularly by the Fauvist and Post- annual exhibition at the Lillie Art Gallery Admission Free • Shop • Car Park • Disabled Access Impressionist artists, Cope's colourful, in Milngavie features an eclectic mix energetic works draw on her world travels, of painting, printmaking, photography,

People’s Choice Award from the Caribbean and Central and South jewellery, textiles, ceramics and sculpture. sponsored by Barrie Scott & Co. America to Africa and the Mediterranean. Established in 1882 as the Glasgow SSBAScottish Society of Botanical Artists Her subjects include seascapes, still Society of Lady Artists and boasting Scottish Society of Botanical Artists www.thessba.org lifes, portraits, nudes and zoo animals. illustrator Jessie M. King and landscape Scottish Charities No. SC045778 Recognised beyond her native Ireland, Cope and still life painter Mary Armour as early has been exhibited in galleries all over the members, the group continues its tradition world and her work has been acquired by of supporting women in their creative many public and corporate collections. The endeavours. Until Nov 1, www.gswa.org.uk exhibition will also include sculpture by her daughter, Phoebe Cope, who lives and works BREAKING NEWS in Scotland. Oct 6-31, The RGI Kelly Gallery will reopen to www.compassgallery.co.uk the public with an exhibition of works by John Byrne and Alasdair Gray, two David Michie OBE, RSA, FRSA, FECA great Glasgow polymaths who are (1928-2015) painted colourful, Expressionist also exceptional writers, playwrights canvases in a bold style similar to that and designers. Nov 3-early Jan, 2019, of his mother, the much loved Scottish www.royalglasgowinstitute.org painter Anne Redpath. To celebrate what

EARRINGS BY JAN MCCLINTOCK (GLASGOW SOCIETY OF DAVID MICHIE, ‘TANGO DANCERS’ (GLASGOW ART CLUB) WOMEN ARTISTS/LILLIE ART GALLERY)

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VICTOR NOBLIS, ‘EDINBURGH’ (CAITHNESS HORIZONS)

Novels, the only one of its kind in the UK. Until Oct 6, www.caithnesshorizons.co.uk

The Isle of Skye is home to many Painting • Ceramics • Jewellery • Woodwork • Sculpture talented artists and craftmakers, some gavin young | genre scenes of the best of whom are showcased on the Art-Skye website run by the Skye and Lochalsh Arts and Crafts Association, which has acted as a creative hub in the area for over 25 years. There is also a video channel and and a booklet arranged emergence: new perspectives in geographically by members’ scottish art locations. Art-Skye art and craft trails add to the visitor experience in this extraordinary part of Scotland. www.art-skye.co.uk

raffito at Caithness the autumn show Horizons presents featuring new works from andrew squire, fiona macrae, street, pop, comic alan hayman, john hodgson and more. and ‘zine art – 8th Sep until 26th October Gtraditionally seen as fringe - in www.resipolestudios.co.uk a mainstream gallery setting. loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx Organisers promise to ‘detonate 01967 431506 a Graffito bomb in the heart of Thurso’ as a way of drawing new audiences to the gallery. Participants include Marc Delaye of Freshpaint.org, an established community projects artist from the Black Isle, and several exhibitors from the University of Dundee’s Masters course in Comics and Graphic LEX MCFADYEN, ‘A BOWL OF POPPIES’ (ARCHWAY GALLERY)

Lex McFadyen: Fruit, Flowers and French Fancies at the Archway Gallery in Lochgilphead focuses on the still life – or ‘nature morte’ (dead nature), as the French call it. As well as his studio alongside the Crinan Canal in Argyll, McFadyen has a studio at his home in the medieval village of Noyers-sur-Serein in Burgundy, where the landscapes, chateaux and long summers of this wine-growing region are a great inspiration. He also curates the annual Dix Artistes Ecossais exhibition, which this year included well known Scottish names such as Lesley Banks, Peter Nardini and Gillian Goodheir. Until Nov 3, www.thearchway.co.uk

CATHY MYHILL, ‘AUTUMN FROST’ (SKYE-ARTS/DANDELION DESIGNS)

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 47 HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Fruit, Flowers and MIXED French Fancies WINTER An exhibition by Lex McFadyen EXHIBITION 20 Oct – 17 Nov New work from Paul Bennett Tom Shanks Lesley Carruthers Mark Ward A Bowl of Poppies Life at the Chateau at Life Cherries Lemons, Lillies,

‘Eternal West’ by Paul Bennett Tighnabruaich, Argyll PA21 2DR The Archway Gallery 01700 811681 www.tiggallery.com 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS | 01546 606894 Open www.thearchway.co.uk Mon-Fri & Sun 11am-4pm, Sat 10am-5pm MORE THAN A MAGAZINE STILL LIFE, PORTRAITS, PHOTOGRAPHY, CLASSES, TEXTILES BOOKS, SCULPTURE, CERAMICS, ART SUPPLIES ETCHINGS, LIGHTING, FURNITURE, GLASSWORK PURSES, MUGS, INSTALLATION, JEWELLERY PROFILES, DEMONSTRATIONS, NEWS, DESIGN, COLLAGE, WORKSHOPS CUSHIONS, WOODCRAFT, HANDBAGS DRAWINGS, OPEN STUDIOS, VOUCHERS, FRAMING, FELTWORK MINIATURES, FAIRS, AUCTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, SEASCAPES MARKETS, LIMITED EDITIONS, INTERVIEWS CRAFTS, LANDSCAPE, DEGREE SHOWS, FASHION TRAVEL, PRINTS, LECTURES, BASKETRY WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK

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1. Housed in a handsome listed former butcher’s shop, artist Alan leatherwork, woodwork and soaps. www.thecrafters.co.uk Pictured: Dawson’s Quay Gallery in Aberdour has an inviting, domestic Vase by Borders Art Glass atmosphere. Open from Easter until Christmas, it is a great place to see a carefully curated selection of paintings, prints and objets d’art, 8. The Winter Exhibition at the E.D.S Gallery in Edinburgh features a all sourced from the UK. www.thequaygallery.co.uk beautiful collection of original paintings, hand-made prints, sculpture, glassware and jewellery, including work by Walter Awlson, Sally 2. Award-winning sculptor Elizabeth Waugh’s animal and figurative Gatie, Kirstie Behrens, Chris Polunin, Andrew Matheson RBSA and 7 8 9 10 pieces (pictured: ‘Kes’) are built in plaster, then sculpted in bronze Joyce Gunn Cairns OBE. www.edsgallery.com Pictured: Sally Gatie, resin. Part of a varied collection, including works by Simon Griffiths ‘Jasmine’ and Christine Cummings, they are available from the Moy Mackay Gallery in Peebles or online. www.moymackaygallery.com 9. Bringing you the best in new, distinctive and exclusive works, Subversion Gallery in Glasgow’s lively West End specialises in pop 3. Textile artist Sheila Dalgleish is excited by all things to do with and urban art. They believe that life is just too short for boring walls landscape. North and South, her bright, colourful exhibition of and only sell art they would happily have in their own home. textile work (Feb 3-10), features depictions of the fabulous northern www.subversiongallery.co.uk Pictured: David Studwell, ‘Audrey landscapes she has explored. Unique gifts are also available online. Hepburn 1’ www.sdalgleish.co.uk 10. The Whitehouse Gallery in Kirkcudbright has contemporary art and 4. Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and 1950s design items craft of an extremely high standard, with a mix of paintings, sculpture, feature alongside paintings and prints by established contemporary furniture, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and much more spread over Scottish artists at High St Gallery in Kirkcudbright, where you can two floors. www.whitehousegallery.co.uk Pictured: Gemma Rees, choose from their greatly expanded selection of ceramics, glassware ‘Boris’ and metalware as well as retro, period and contemporary jewellery, including Scandinavian design jewellery such as this honeycomb 11. Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon captures the spirit of the amber and silver necklace (pictured). www.highstgallery.co.uk wild. Buy original paintings, quality reproductions and gift cards online or visit his studio by appointment in Irvine, Ayrshire. 11 12 13 5. Arts at Rozelle and the Maclaurin Gallery in Ayr have a range of www.keithsalmon.org Pictured: ‘From the upper slopes of Canisp, paintings by Ayrshire artists, including John Macdonald, Bridget Assynt’, oil on canvas Hunter and many more. www.themaclaurin.org.uk Pictured: Margaret MacDonald DA,’Twilight Happy Valley, Culzean’ 12. The exhibition of original art and crafts at the Fisher Studio & Gallery in Pittenweem provides plenty of inspirational ideas for gifts 6. Watercolour artist Jonathan Wheeler captures the magnificence of for friends, family - and you! Paintings, prints, metalwork, unusual the Scottish countryside and castles in glorious colour in his vivid clocks, a variety of ceramics - all are contemporary and affordable. artistic interpretations. The brightness and depth of colour in his www.fishergallery.co.uk Pictured: Ceramics by John Kershaw work, rare in conventional watercolours, is his unique signature. www.soulsofscotland.co.uk Pictured: ‘Eilean Donan Castle’ 13. Leith School of Art gift vouchers make the perfect gift for anyone interested in attending a creative class with high quality art tuition. 7. This year celebrating their 20th anniversary, The Crafters in Melrose Vouchers can be redeemed on Day & Evening courses and are a cooperative of local artists and designers with their own Weekend Workshops such as Exploring Still Life with Kenneth Le shop in Melrose, where you can find a broad range of hand-made Riche - a great way to start the New Year! products, including textiles, paintings, jewellery, ceramics, glassware, www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk/gift-vouchers

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1. Cupar-based Maisie & Mac has a gorgeous range of original and hand-made gifts, including 1. Aberdeen’s Junction Arts is an eclectic store with artwork, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, prints, 1. Gallery 2 in Kilmarnock (motto: “We can frame anything”) has a wide range of original artwork miniature porcelain figures, stained glass and ceramic birds, Harris Tweed accessories, origami 1 2 3 4 homeware and greeting cards by UK artists and designers, all at affordable prices. Explore the 1 2 3 4 and limited edition prints and a selection of gifts, including hand-made cushions, sculptures and 1 2 3 4 mobiles, quirky cups, bowls and jugs, prints and paintings, home furnishings, slate, sea glass, wide range at the Mixed Winter Show (until Feb 10). www.junction-arts.co.uk Pictured: Karen silver jewellery. www.gallery2kilmarnock.co.uk Pictured: Whisky Frames crafted from Scottish mosaics and silver jewellery. www.maisieandmac.com Pictured: Ceramic firecrest from Karen Hadjitofi, ‘Landlines’ , acrylic on board whisky barrels Fawsett studios 2. A strictly limited edition of 2,000 copies of the official 2018 calendar by John Lowrie “Jolomo” 2. The first ever Artist & Maker Market (Sun Dec 10) at the Briggait in Glasgow showcases work 2. Upland | Upfront at the Upfront Gallery in Cumbria (until Jan 14) is a group exhibition featuring Morrison is now available, with all royalties to be donated to the Mackintosh Campus Appeal by 40 tenants of the Scotland-wide Wasps Studios network - an excellent way to do your gift- an eclectic range of work, including paintings, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, to restore the Glasgow School of Art’s fire-damaged Mackintosh Building. www.jolomo.com shopping while supporting small, independent businesses. www.waspsstudios.org.uk Pictured: photography, glasswork and illustrations, all for sale. Ceramic work by Malcolm S. Dobson www.weareupland.com/events/upland-upfront Pictured: Pamela Grace, ‘The Woods in March’, 3. From past presidents of art institutes to commercial artists, the Mezzanine Gallery at the Mussel pen & ink Inn Glasgow restaurant features the very best work by Scottish artists in ongoing exhibitions. 3. Banff-based Bryan Angus makes lino prints which capture the beauty, atmosphere and history www.mussel-inn.com Pictured: Doreen Boogert, ‘Night Garden’, monoprint of Moray Firth fishing villages as well as snapshots of contemporary life. Bryan’s work has been 3. Borders-based artist Marta Utsler is an intuitive painter who works mainly with acrylic, creating showcased on BBC’s Countryfile. www.bryanangusart.com Pictured: ‘Gamrie Sunday’ textural abstract work with a strong balance and boldness of form, which would suit both larger 4. Visit Westgate Galleries in North Berwick for a stylish gift, such as the finest glasswork by wall spaces or an intimate niche. Check out her work at Velvet Easel in Portobello and the Flat Sweden’s Målerås company, which has been in production since 1890. Other ranges include 4. Step into the Christmas shop at The Queen’s Gallery in Edinburgh and discover the decadent Cat Gallery in Lauder. www.martautsler.com Pictured: ‘Blue No. 1’, acrylic on canvas these Magic Silver bowls (pictured), which would look great as a centrepiece at Christmas, but delights, glistening decorations, luxury food and the most perfect, festive stocking-fillers from are equally attractive all year round. www.westgategalleries.co.uk their magnificent collections of gifts, homeware and jewellery. You can also shop online. 4. Sculptor Mark Hall works almost exclusively in bronze, producing sculptures from the miniature www.royalcollectionshop.co.uk to the monumental, with influences ranging from nature to childhood reflections. A collection 5. The Dancing Light Art Gallery at Whitmuir, West Linton has an abundance of new work by of his work is on display at the Milton Gallery in Banchory, and each piece comes with a over 60 exhibiting artists. The winter exhibition has a focus on unique and individual gift ideas 5. Find something truly unique at Gallery Heinzel in Aberdeen, where you are encouraged to certificate and gift box. Pictured: ‘Born Battle-Ready’ for every kind of art-lover. Gift vouchers and payment plans are also available. ditch the chocolates and wine and replace them with hand-made glass tree decorations which 5 6 7 8 www.dancinglightgallery.co.uk Pictured: Jacqueline Watt, ‘Casting the Nets’ 5 6 7 8 can be used year after year. For something beyond a stocking-filler, there is always an original 5 6 7 8 5. The HAAN Christmas Design Market at the Quad of Marischal College in Aberdeen (Dec painting or sculpture. Pictured: Jillian Bain Christie, ‘Craigievar Castle’, hand-cut board light box 7-24) is a new, high quality showcase of creative products from over 50 local, national and 6. Made from the best Scottish tweeds and textiles, Jeanie Bags are beautifully hand-crafted in international designers and makers. www.instagram.com/haandesignmarket Pictured: Printed styles suited for any occasion. Colourful and fun, they are also designed with practicality in 6. With branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth, Greyfriars Art Shop is Scotland’s largest silk & wool scarf by Helen Greensmith inspired by the wild Scottish landscape mind. You can find them at The Crafters in Melrose or order them online. independent chain of art suppliers. You’ll find creative and affordable gifts from a great www.jeaniebags.co.uk selection of complete sets and stocking-fillers for adults and children alike. Many of the 6. Buy yourself or a friend a year’s subscription to Artmag, covering the best art and craft in knowledgeable staff are artists themselves. Gift vouchers are also available. Scotland and Northeast England. Six bi-monthly issues for only £16.50, incl. p&p. UK residents 7. Based in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge, Lennon-Art is a contemporary figurative art gallery with www.greyfriars-art-shop.co.uk only. www.artmag.co.uk a wide selection of original art and affordable, quality prints. With a great atmosphere and ongoing exhibitions, it is a great space in which to browse and enjoy and buy beautiful art. 7. Painting mostly landscapes and cityscapes, Glasgow-based Michael Mullen currently has oils 7. Japanese artist Midori Takaki describes her work as ‘writing in ceramics’. Find her work at www.lennon-art.co.uk on display at the Seagull Gallery in Gourock and the Riccio Gallery in Dalkeith. Look out for his Edinburgh’s Morningside Gallery alongside a fabulous selection of paintings by other artists, solo show, Creative Coverage, at the Gaiety Theatre Restaurant in Ayr (Jan 6-Feb 28). including Scott Naismith, Christine Clark and Allison Young. www.morningsidegallery.co.uk 8. With plenty opportunities to purchase that special gift to delight and intrigue, Juxtaposed at www.facebook.com/michaelemullenfineart Pictured: Lily Pond, Threave Gardens, Castle Pictured: Midori Takaki, ‘Angels’, ceramic the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh (Dec 1-22) features a wide range of contemporary and quirky Douglas illustrations and prints by Rachel Donaldson and Anoushka Schellekens. 8. The Christmas exhibition at the Torrance Gallery in Edinburgh features original paintings by www.uprightgallery.com Pictured: Rachel Donaldson: ‘Blue Reclining’ 8. Supporting local artists in the northeast of Scotland, Larks Gallery in Ballater has an extensive over 50 gallery artists along with glasswork, sculpture and designer jewellery by Sheana collection of high quality Scottish contemporary art and artisan craft, including glass, ceramics, Stephen (pictured). There is also a full picture framing service. www.torrancegallery.co.uk 9. Edinburgh Art Shop is bursting with art supplies for any level of creativity, including box sets, sculpture and much more. www.larksgallery.com Pictured: Naomi Stark, stained glass set in gift sets and a range of materials. And for those tricky folks – the classic gift voucher. elm supports. 9. Only 25 minutes from the Edinburgh City Bypass, Flat Cat Gallery in Lauder has fabulous www.edinburghartshop.com artwork, ceramics, jewellery and glass. After finding that perfect gift, visitors can relax in the cafe 9 10 11 9 10 11 12 9. The internationally exhibited Pop surrealist, Raul Guerra, has a delightful and emotive collection 9 10 11 12 and enjoy locally roasted coffee and a snack. www.flatcatgallery.co.uk Pictured: Deborah 10. Located in the Borders village of Newtown St Boswells, Tweedside Gallery has a range of small works at Inverarity Gallery in Alvah, Banff. Entitled Vivarium, his exhibition explores Campbell, ‘Iona Contrasts II’ of beautiful crafts, including aromatics, ceramics, glasswork and a range of landscape themes of peace, unity with nature and the imagination of the inner child. Visit the website or photographs from the Borders and beyond. There is also a bespoke framing service. book an appointment to view the work in person. www.inveraritygallery.com 10. Visit Clience Studio by the clock tower in Castle Douglas for a special painting, signed print or www.tweedsidegallery.co.uk Pictured: Ian Oliver, ‘Sunset at Smailholm Tower’ art gift. Artist and owner Angela Lawrence is noted for her atmospheric Galloway landscapes 10. Tatha Gallery in Newport-on-Tay, Fife (Tatha is Scottish Gaelic for Tay), has some of the best and seascapes, scenes of the Highlands and Islands and Cumbria as well as more abstract 11. The Velvet Easel Gallery in Portobello has an eclectic range of contemporary art by local, 20th century and contemporary British art by both emerging talent and established artists. work. www.cliencestudio.co.uk Pictured: ‘Sunset Colours, Kippford’ Scottish and international artists. There is a year-round programme of mixed exhibitions by www.tathagallery.com Pictured: Claire Harkess, ‘Roller II’, watercolour emerging talent and established names working in a broad range of media, including painting, 11. Visit the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club at Aberlady nature reserve in East Lothian, where gift sculpture, pottery, ceramics, glass and jewellery www.velveteasel.co.uk Pictured: Sophie 11. An array of watercolours by leading and emerging artists can be enjoyed and purchased at the ideas include a wide selection of wildlife artists’ prints, nature photography by Laurie Campbell, Mckay Knight, ‘Knotted Harmony’ 137th Open Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (Feb wooden bird carvings, birdwatching resources, art and natural history books and greeting cards. 5-Mar 8) in the RSA Building, Edinburgh. Their 2018 Summer Show will visit The Meffan Gallery www.the-soc.org.uk Pictured: Woodcarving from the Archipelago range 12. Following a five-star run at the Edinburgh International Festival, the ‘must see’ Scottish Opera in Forfar. www.rsw.org Pictured: Janet Melrose RSW, ‘The Long Barrow’ production of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s anarchic, contemporary retelling of the Oedipus myth, 12. The Archway Gallery in Lochgilphead, Argyll, has a great range of original artworks, ceramics, ‘Greek’, comes to Glasgow’s Theatre Royal (Feb 2 & 3). www.scottishopera.org.uk 12. At the friendly and relaxed Three Fishes Framing Gallery in Peebles, owner, framer and artist jewellery, design-led gifts, art supplies and craft materials as well as an exclusive range of in residence Jim Macdonald will build a unique, bespoke frame for your art, prints and other limited edition giclee prints by Jolomo (pictured: ‘Autumn light at Puddlers Cottage, Crinan 13. Choose a special gift from hundreds of original, limited edition screenprints by workshop items. www.threfishesframing.com Pictured: Hand-built Art Deco frame Canal’). www.thearchway.co.uk members of Glasgow Print Studio. www.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk Pictured: Fiona Watson, ‘Bear With Me’, etching. ed. of 40 13. The 31st annual Christmas Exhibition at Tolquhon Gallery in rural Aberdeenshire (until Dec 19) 13. Linda Lovatt of Borders-based Beastie Assemblage creates whimsical, hand-made brooches, 12 13 14 15 16 13 14 15 16 is a feast of Scottish paintings, sculpture, original prints, ceramics, glass and wood by over 50 13 14 15 16 necklaces, bangles and assemblage pieces from copper and brass sheet, broken bits of pottery, 14. One of Britain’s most innovative landscape artists, Beth Robertson Fiddes, explains: “I try to artists and makers. www.tolquhon-gallery.co.uk Pictured: Sue Dunne, ’Acorn Dish’ beads and buttons. These are then aged with chemicals to give them a beautiful verdigris evoke a sense of character in the landscape, something beyond visual representation. My work colour. www.beastieassemblage.co.uk Pictured: ‘Haring around 3’ has been described as having an other-worldly quality to it and, in a sense, that is my objective 14. Pop into Art & Craft Collective in Edinburgh for original and unusual hand-made cards, - combined with more recognisable aspects of the landscape.” www.bethrobertsonfiddes.com wrapping and gifts, like these paper fortune cookies by White Rabbit Stationery (pictured). 14. Discover Grieg, Munch and more on a Holland America Line seven-night summer Norwegian Pictured: ‘Sun Splash, Deep Pool’ A great alternative to crackers, each one contains a festive message. Personalised sets are Fjords cruise from Amsterdam on the five-star Koningsdam, with its world class collection of available to match your decor. www.artcraftcollective.co.uk contemporary art – a perfect combination with Amsterdam’s museums and galleries. Enquire 15. The Old Mill Gallery in Palnackie, Castle Douglas is run by a group of artists showcasing their about flights from Scottish and other regional airports. www.hollandamerica.com own work as well as a wide variety of work by other local creatives. The gallery also hosts 15. Artisanand in Aberfeldy exhibits contemporary and affordable work by mainly local artists. numerous events, including an annual Christmas Fair (Dec 9). www.theoldmillgallery.com The regularly changing selection includes sculpture, painting, ceramics, jewellery, glass, wood, 15. This December, Tea Green have an unmissable line-up of unique festive shopping events in Pictured: Edward Campbell, ‘A weary traveller’ textiles, photography and furniture. www.artisanand.co.uk Pictured: Georgia Crook, ‘Skyboat’, beautiful venues across Scotland, where you’ll find an eclectic selection of Scottish art, design willow & waxed paper and contemporary craft. Get something truly unique for your loved ones – and don’t forget to 16. Spark your loved ones’ creative side with a gift voucher for a tutored course at the Edinburgh spoil yourself! www.teagreen.co.uk Pictured: Scarves by Collingwood-Norris Drawing School. Students from eight years and up and from absolute beginners to 16. Upstairs at J & G Innes in St Andrews has original paintings, framed and mounted prints of local intermediate level are welcome. Bookings are now being taken for Spring Term I, which starts scenes by various artists as well as art materials. www.jg-innes.co.uk Pictured: John Picken, 16. The Nomads Tent in Edinburgh is a warehouse of tribal art specialising in traditional and on January 15. www.edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk ‘Seat in the Trees, St Andrews Botanic Gardens’ contemporary hand-woven rugs and kilims. They also source hand-made furniture, textiles, jewellery and artefacts from India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, notably colourful, hand- stitched slippers from Jodhpur by Gujar Modri. www.nomadstent.co.uk

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NATASHA TODD CONNECTED LANDSCAPES

4 October 2018 - 19 January 2019 Perth Museum & Art Gallery

An exhibition of large-scale paintings by the contemporary award-winning artist, Natasha Todd.

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Strathyre and St Fillans in the Loch Lomond C 9 0 H and The Trossachs National Park. It now boasts 25 permanent art installations. A Geotourist smartphone app enables visitors to locate each installation and listen to stories recorded by the artists and community representatives. www.geotourist.com/tours/2040

Natasha Todd: Connected Landscapes at Perth Museum and Art Gallery features a series of paintings following the rivers Tay and Earn, Allan Water and the Falls of

ALEX TEDLIE-STURSBERG, VESSELS 1 AND 4 IN Dochart. The journey depicts the ephemeral LOCHEARNHEAD (BLISS ART TRAIL) nature of water and the evocative Scottish landscape, each painting reflecting the changing seasons through Todd’s soothing colour palette and delicate forms. The exhibition also includes traditional landscape paintings from the Perth Museum and Art Gallery collection to juxtapose Todd’s contemporary works. Natasha Todd graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design with a First Class degree. She has exhibited several times in the Royal Scottish Academy and in the 2017 London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Until Jan 19, 2019, www.culturepk.org.uk (Search MUSEUMS & GALLERIES.) MARGARET EVANS, ‘END OF A HOT DAY’ (ABERFELDY GALLERY)

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alleria Luti in Callander has a new rolling exhibition featuring work by George Birrell, Deborah Phillips, GDavy Brown, Peter Luti and others. Look out also for new paintings by Morag Lloyds as well as her jewellery and enchanting harbour sculptures and new glasswork by Elin Isaksson. Until Dec 31, www.gallerialuti.co.uk

Stephanie Rew is the main featured artist in the Figurative Show at Fotheringham Gallery in Bridge of Allan. Stephanie returns to the New Stables Visitor Centre gallery after a year which has seen her achieve international acclaim. This autumn, the Stables Visitor Centre STEPHANIE REW, 'THE MOMENT FADES' (FOTHERINGHAM GALLERY) Her ‘Crimson Heart’ painting was at Cambo Gardens hosts a range of printmaking, basket weaving and crafting Italy and later exhibited at the workshops. A pit firing demonstration Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris from Beaconsreach pottery and exhibitions and the Royal Academy in inspired by the Scottish Tree Festival add London. After coming into an to the glorious celebration of autumn inheritance from his landowner colour in the walled garden. Now a hub uncle, he began to build up his for local artists, the sensitive restoration own art collection and, with no of stables dating from the 1760s includes need to sell, devoted every exhibition spaces and a shop offering penny of his estate to building work by local artists and makers. what was originally the Smith Institute. The Visitor Centre at Cambo Gardens is a The collection now short distance from St Andrews, in the East DAVY BROWN, ‘COTTAGES ON SKYE’ (GALLERIA LUTI) comprises around 275 Neuk of Fife, hub of local artists. portraits and some 600 watercolours, oil a finalist in the prestigious ModPortrait 17 paintings, prints and drawings by eminent The Stables Learning Hub Competition in Barcelona and she was a artists attracted by the beauty of Stirling and finalist in the Scottish Portrait Awards. She Autumn courses include the Trossachs. Collograph with Linda Jackson 4 Oct will be exhibiting around 10 figure paintings www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk Lino Printing with Nicki Bradwell 24 Nov along with work by Cherylene Dyer and Basket weaving with Jan Hendry 25 Nov Sereni Curmi, the latter in her first ever show Go online for more activities and events in Scotland. Oct 13-Nov 9, www.fotheringhamgallery.co.uk Stables Visitor Centre, Cambo Estate The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Kingsbarns, St Andrews, Fife KY16 8QD Museum has a new director, Caroline 01333 451 040 Mathers, who aims to highlight the founder’s www.camboheritagetrust.org.uk extensive art collection. [email protected] Unlike other Scottish museums which were funded by wealthy merchants and industrialists – for example, the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow, Aberdeen Art Gallery and the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery (now Kirkcaldy Galleries) – Stirling alone has a public museum established by a practising artist. Thomas Stuart Smith (1814-69) was a STEVEN CAMPBELL, ‘OUTSIDE RIGHT AT THE SUNSET GATE’, portrait painter who studied and worked in 1994 (STIRLING SMITH ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM)

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pit-firing demonstration from Beaconsreach pottery and exhibitions inspired by the Scottish Tree Festival add to the glorious PAINT celebration of autumn colour in the walled WITH FREEDOM garden. Now a hub for local artists, the sensitive restoration of stables dating from at La Liberté the 1760s includes exhibition spaces and in the real South of France, a shop offering work by local artists and home of artist Linda H. Matthews makers. www.camboheritagetrust.org.uk

La Liberté, the 1830s home of artist Linda Matthews in Languedoc, France, has space GET CREATIVE! to escape - but not so big it isn't cosy. More house party than hotel, it is surrounded by Leith School of Art offers Year-Long inspiration for painters of all abilities such and Short Courses taught in their unique as vineyards, mountains, rivers, markets and studios. All are welcome on their Open the Mediterranean. Maximum groups of six. Days to see the Year-Long courses in Independent artists welcome at other times. action and ask questions before making an www.broadskiesgallery.co.uk/collections/ application. Short Courses can be booked painting-holidays-uk-france-morocco 2019 Booking now:! online, including Weekend Workshops 25 May Late Spring in L’Herault! such as Portraiture: Between Abstraction & North West Highlands Art offers painters 22 June Beaches, Boats and Rivers! Representation with tutor Kenneth Le Riche. of all abilities the ultimate in residential 19 Oct Autumn Colours! www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk courses in a wide variety of styles and Private painting groups welcome at other times! themes taught by renowned artists. Group This autumn, the Stables Visitor Centre numbers are limited to maximise individual Full Details and Enquiries at: at Cambo Gardens in Kingsbarns near tuition. Be inspired by the light and colours Tel: 0033(0)467 01 43 93 St Andrews hosts a range of printmaking, of the Scottish Highlands! basket weaving and crafting workshops. A www.nwhighlandsart.co.uk paintncanvasholidays.co.uk OPEN DAYS WEEKEND 2018-2019 WORKSHOPS OCT 2018 - JUN 2019 Exploring Gesso | Textiles Collagraph in Colour | Portraiture Drawing as Meditation Discovering Ink | Experimental Printing Jewellery: Sea Glass Rings Artists’ Books: Making a Tunnel Book WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER see www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk for more THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 10AM - 3PM

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ARTISTS AND CRAFTMAKERS To promote your work in Showcase please email [email protected] or call Artmag office, ALLISON SMITH 0131 661 0765 OLGA KRASANOVA Printmaker Low Parks Museum WW1 Centenary Memorial www.krasanova.com www.allisonsmith.co.uk

ELIZABETH GILBEY LOUISE TURNBULL ANNIE BROADLEY Painting & Commissions www.louiseturnbullpaintings.co.uk www.anniebroadley.com www.elizabethgilbey.co.uk

PETER WAREING ANN ARMSTRONG MICHAEL BATEY www.peterwareingceramics.co.uk www.ann-armstrong-art.co.uk www.michaelbatey.com

DANIEL SCOTTOW CID-CASTILLA LYS HANSEN www.danscottow.wixsite.com/artist www.cid-castilla.co.uk www.lyshansen.co.uk

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TOM DAVIDSON HAYWARD JOHN IAN CARGILL www.tomdavidson.co.uk www.haywardjohnart.co.uk www.iancargillart.co.uk

EMMA S DAVIS RSW PAI ISOBEL STAMFORD ANTHONY J BARBER www.emmasdavisartist.co.uk www.isabelajewellery.com www.abarber.co.uk

JENNY MUSKER SIOBHAN O’ HEHIR JUDE EDGAR www.jennymusker.co.uk www.siobhanohehir.com www.judeedgar.com

DAVID FALLOWS BILL ZIMA Highland Artist JOHN PAUL RAINE www.billzima.com www.spiritofcairngorms.com www.teapotpaintings.com

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