14TH ANNUAL ART & CRAFT GIFT GUIDE Dozens of Gift Ideas for Art

27 November 2020 Issue 141

14TH ANNUAL ART & CRAFT GIFT GUIDE Dozens of gift ideas for art-lovers!

Her Best Side by Garry Harper is from the Winter Mixed Exhibition at The Velvet Easel Gallery in Portobello. I m a g e : s b l H u p r t i n J - P S o é ’ 4 November to 17 December 2020 s L a D r o n e

In cinemas and online Edinburgh Filmhouse, Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse, Glasgow Film Theatre and other leading independent cinemas across Scotland

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YEAR-LONG COURSES | SHORT COURSES | SUMMER SCHOOL 11-4 Mon – Sat. Closed Sun. Bespoke picture framing – ask about 144 High Street, Dunbar, East Lothian Leith School of Art, 25 North Junction Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HW www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk | 0131 554 5761 | [email protected] our home consultation service 01368 865 141 www.coastart.co.uk

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rtists have been active in printing life in general and many had to rethink bookcloth (pictured); Winifred Hodge’s Our and book production for centuries. how to physically make their work, what amazing coastline, a concertina sketchbook Artist books have appeared in their artworks meant and how they in watercolour, pen and ink backed with A time and a place a wide range of forms, from could connect with their audience in a navigation chart and inspired by the Athe traditional codex to scrolls, fold-outs, unprecedented times. Re:connections at East Lothian coast; and Serena Smith’s A new collection of paintings and limited edition prints concertina and loose leaf, and were adopted Edinburgh’s Upright Gallery (until Dec 19) Dendokron, a series of hand-coloured images by movements such as Dada, Constructivism features a selection of artist books by over and poems made in collaboration with Alexander Millar transports his ‘Youth and Young Manhood’ characters and Fluxus. 30 makers on the theme of connections. writer Lindsey Shaw-Miller and presented to iconic city locations that have been very important in his life – from the Like everyone during lockdown artists Contributions include: Fenneke Wolters- in a paper slip case. The exhibition was co- High Level Bridge in Newcastle to the Trocadero Gardens in Paris. have all been forced to reconsider how Sinke’s Readings from a River, a three- curated with Edinburgh-based artist Susie to best stay connected with people and volume set in a clamshell box covered with Wilson. www.uprightgallery.com

New work by JONATHAN STOCKLEY Charcoal artist Sat 5 Dec to Christmas 1 Year Anniversary Exhibition

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FINE ART GALLERY Artist Jennifer Thomson’s image of Edinburgh’s King’s Curated by Dancing Light Theatre, What A Pantomime! (pictured), was recently used Gallery, Echoes of Existence to illustrate a limited edition poem by Alexander McCall at Edinburgh’s Dundas Street Smith, copies of which were sold as part of the theatre’s Gallery (Dec 4-10) features Crowdfunder Appeal. These have now sold out, but you the latest collection by can still help by ordering Christmas cards featuring the landscape artist Helen Acklam, same painting. www.capitaltheatres.com mainly depicting cottages, bothies and shielings in the Outer Hebrides. Once home to earlier generations of islanders and now standing derelict and www.alexandermillar.com isolated, their faded beauty is given new life with Acklam’s of authenticity. Old local spiritual books are use of mixed media, for Princes Square 55-59 Grey Street also introduced in the form of collage to example adding sand from Buchanan Street Newcastle represent the faith and beliefs observed in Luskentyre beach to acrylic small works Glasgow upon Tyne the island communities. Pictured: Cottages paint, ink, gouache and www.resipolestudios.co.uk 0141 221 7565 0191 230 4440 at Breasclete graphite to create a sense of www.dancinglightgallery.co.uk loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx belonging and add a touch

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he next live online auction at the Edinburgh branch of Lyon & Turnbull is Scottish Paintings & Sculpture (Dec 4), a highlight of Twhich is Sir William Russell Flint: A Private Collection, including over 20 works by the Edinburgh-born artist. Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969) produced illustrations for several books, including H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines, W.S. Gilbert’s Savoy Operas, Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. He was President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Watercolour Society) for 20 years. While he enjoyed considerable commercial success, Flint gained little respect from art critics. The collection includes delicate watercolour Christmas Jewellery Auction scenes from the Cote d’ Azur and Venice. www.brownandturner.co.uk Pictured: Liberation, Lot 18, est. £6-8,000 12 December | 10am | Live Online The auction also includes works by artists who were active mainly between the mid- 01835 863445 | [email protected] CATALOGUE ONLINE 4 DECEMBER 19th and mid-20th century, such as George Houston RSA, James Morris Henderson and Viewing 8 – 11 December www.brownandturner.co.uk E.A. Hornel. www.lyonandturnbull.com Featured artist in Winter 2020 at Gallery Q by Taisir Gibreel as well as prints, jewellery in Dundee is Hilke MacIntyre (until Jan 23, and hand-made Christmas decorations and 2021), with ceramic wall reliefs, paintings and cards. www.galleryq.co.uk Edinburgh Macmillan prints - the first time all three disciplines have ONLINE been shown together. ART SHOW 2020 - this year Pictured: Two Angels, acrylic on canvas The exhibition Art For A Great Cause also features paintings by Jean Martin RSW, Don’t miss the art show where you can Derek Robertson RSW, NEW ARTWORK ADDED Nichola Martin, Fiona make a real difference. Sturrock, Jennifer For the first year the art show is Irvine RGI RSW, Irene Perhaps better known as a figurative painter moving online to raise vital funds for McCann, Heather focusing on single portraits influenced by the Soutar, Kate Henderson Macmillan Cancer Support. Old Masters, Robert MacMillan is showing Edinburgh Castle image by John Forgan and Claire Harkess RSW, a new body of landscapes in Towards St glass by Kim Bramley, 1st – 30th November Andrews at Fraser Gallery in St Andrews Gregg Anston-Race and focusing on his love of the town and the Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show Black Cat Glass Designs, surrounding area. He says: “In the early days ceramics by Wayne

@MacArtShow edinmacmillanartshow of lockdown, we spent time as a family Galloway, Patricia outside, where I was captivated by the sky, Shone, Phil Arthur and www.macmillanartshow.org.uk the rapidly changing cloud forms and the Jaroslav Hrustalenko ever-changing light.” Pictured: Where the Macmillan Cancer Support, registered charity 261017 and SCO39907 and luxury silk scarves trees whisper www.frasergallery.co.uk

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he Winter Show 2020 at Gerber and Glasgow Boys. There is also a selection Fine Art in Glasgow (until Jan 31, by Scottish contemporary artists. Pictured: 2021) is a mixed exhibition of 19th Cecil Hay (1899-1974), Still Life with Bottles to 21st century paintings, drawings and Glass, oil on canvas Tand sculptures encompassing both pieces www.gerberfineart.co.uk which are brand new to the gallery and others that the gallery has had in store but is showing for the first time. Many Scottish, British and European artists are represented, including Joan Eardley, J.D. Fergusson, Pat Douthwaite, William McCance, Margot Sandeman and members of The Christmas Show at the Royal Scottish the Scottish Academy in Edinburgh (Nov 29-Dec 22) is Colourists, the a festive celebration of recent works by 40 Glasgow Girls RSA members. Pictured: James Castle RSA, Night www.royalscottishacademy.org Into the Light ArtMag ad.qxp_Into the Light Art Mag Ad 26/10/2020 17:27 Page 1

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Our new Exhibition INTO THE LIGHT celebrates the We hope you will be able to visit us in person but for If you are unable to come creativity of a group of Ayrshire artists and makers who those who are unable to do this we have created a virtual into the gallery and wish to Francis Boag have produced this work over the last six months. It is an exhibition, visit www.themaclaurin.org.uk purchase an item please Summer Dreaming eclectic mix of subjects and styles, inspirational and Covid 19 restrictions are in place. Please telephone the telephone Mixed media on canvas 80cm x 120cm uplifting. There is something for everyone to enjoy and gallery to make an appointment to gain access to the 01292 445447 plenty of ideas for Christmas presents! exhibitions.- 01292 445447

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heWinter Exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery in Comrie, Perthshire (Nov 28-Jan 31, 2021) features recent additions to the collective Ann JAMES TWegmuller RSW RWS, whose abstract landscapes are known for their bold use of FULLARTON colour, and the Wild Wood Brothers, who nov 26th - dec 24th, 2020 use locally sourced trees to create original furniture and unique objects. Also showing are core exhibitors such as painters Jonathan Sainsbury with delicate, keenly observed depictions of The Christmas Mixed Exhibition at nature and wildlife and Lucy Artisanand in Aberfeldy (Nov 28-Jan 8, 2021) Campbell with dream-like features the Orkney Collection by Georgia landscapes as well as jeweller Allan, whose work is inspired by the islands’ Claire Allain, who uses ethically birds. As a natural resting point for migration ROGER sourced gemstones and recycled routes, the Orkneys have some of the richest metals to produce pieces inspired bird life in the world, from the comical puffin BILLCLIFFE by places where she has lived, to the majestic sea eagle. As well as all kinds including New Zealand, Cornwall of unusual species passing through, nesting GALLERY and now Perthshire. birds are safe from land predators. There is also a large range of Made with the highest quality 134 blythswood street limited edition prints and gifts Hahnemühle German etching, Georgia’s glasgow g2 4el available. Pictured: Jewellery by prints have a vibrancy and beauty in detail 0141 332 4027 Claire Allain which is impossible to demonstrate digitally. www.billcliffegallery.com www.goldfinchgallery.co.uk All but one piece, Peasants (pictured, 1 of 3), are single editions. www.artisanand.co.uk

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EDINBURGH The Nomads Tent can EDINBURGH On the brighten up those chilly winter days with southside of Edinburgh, one of their gorgeous reversible kantha Art & Craft Collective scarves from Jaipur, made from recycled showcases the work silk saris. Choose from a lovely selection of over 60 artists and of colours and patterns. crafters, with original www.nomadstent.co.uk art to pottery and more - always original and often unique. Open Tuesday - Sunday. www. artcraftcollective.co.uk

DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY Maureen Briggs FIFE Tatha Gallery in Newport-on-Tay can of High St. Gallery in Kirkcudbright has brighten up your life with a wonderful array BORDERS The art of Marta Utsler, from produced a range of unique, hand-crafted of smaller scale works, ceramics and textiles - larger-sized canvases to smaller works on découpage mirrors, incorporating digital and a great way to support local artists. paper, will surely be an effective way to original artwork and ’trompe l’oeil’ elements. www.tathagallery.com create a focal point. www.martautsler.com www.highstgallery.co.uk

ISLE OF SKYE Dandelion Designs & Images FIFE Wayne Galloway’s work can be seen Gallery has a wide selection of limited at the St Andrews-based Sproson Gallery, FIFE The Quay Gallery in Aberdour offers a ABERDEEN Let the team at Gallery Heinzel edition linoprints, collagraphs and mixed which also incorporates a family-run, carefully curated selection of paintings, prints help you choose the perfect original gift media paintings as well as locally hand-made bespoke custom picture framing business. and objets d’art, all sourced from the UK. for your partner, family or friends. They can art and craft, photography, jewellery, cards View their selection of artists and contact Open Easter until Christmas. also arrange delivery anywhere in the world. and prints. www.dandelion-designs.co.uk details at www.sprosongallery.com www.thequaygallery.co.uk www.galleryheinzel.com

AYRSHIRE Gallery 2 in Kilmarnock has some ABERDEENSHIRE Milton Art Gallery at PERTHSHIRE Aberfeldy Gallery features EAST LOTHIAN Coast Art in Dunbar has cute and quirky ceramics by Ans Vink, hand- lovely work on show such as Lorna Reid’s Milton of Crathes, Banchory has work by a contemporary art by established and PERTHSHIRE Based in the beautiful village of crafted in the Netherlands and perfect for any wall or mantlepiece. www.coastart.co.uk Jackanory in felt wool. Based in West Kilbride, range of makers, including Sarah Koetsier’s emerging Scottish artists and craftmakers, Comrie, Goldfinch Gallery features new and Lorna worked for large knitwear companies hand-thrown porcelain pieces, which look landscapes, wildlife art and photography, exciting works in every type of media, such as and continues to design, make and teach. lovely together or on their own. pottery, glasswork and jewellery. Photo: Hetty Williams’ unique resin lamps with LED www.gallery2kilmarnock.co.uk www.miltonart.com Adam Seward. www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk lighting. www.goldfinchgallery.co.uk 14 | 27 November | Issue 141 27 November | Issue 141 | 15 14TH 14THANNUAL ANNUAL GIVE ARTARTS & &CRAFTS CRAFT CRAFTS GIFT GIFT GUIDEGIFT GUIDE GUIDE 14TH ANNUALARTS & GIVECRAFTS ARTS GIFT GUIDE & CRAFTS GIFT GUIDE

PERTHSHIRE A series of eclectic exhibitions at Artisanand in Aberfeldy showcases a wide range of media and styles from the quirky to the traditional by over 50 local artists. These paper and willow sculptures are by Georgia Crook. www.artisanand.co.uk Robert White Roofs III McAulay

EDINBURGH The Winter Exhibition at the Torrance Gallery in Edinburgh features a EDINBURGH Encourage a friend to try BORDERS Among the wide range of works NNttrn ARGYLL The Small Works show at Resipole cornucopia of original artwork by over 40 something creative with a gift voucher for on sale at Flat Cat Gallery in Lauder is Studios in Acharacle offers unique gift ideas gallery artists, including this oil by Marion Leith School of Art, where the programme Standing Hare and Reclining Hare, sculpted Liits for the art-lover in your life, including quality Drummond. They also have a wealth of includes Weekend Workshops, Day & in clay by Bernadette Wood, capturing the Mixed Winter Show ceramics, painting, sculpture and more, for jewellery, ceramics, bronze and glassware. Evening courses and Summer Schools. hares' magical, mystical nature. 5th Dec - 27th Feb WINTER EXHIBITION under £500. www.resipolestudios.co.uk www.torrancegallery.co.uk www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk/gift-vouchers www.flatcatgallery.co.uk 14th November to March 2021 Gift advice, wrapping & delivery service 55 Allardice Street, Stonehaven, AB39 2AB 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD 01224 625629 [email protected] 01569 780606 Open Tues to Sat from 10am www.galleryheinzel.com [email protected] www.eionstewartfineart.com DUBLIN & ONLINE The Doorway Gallery has a winter show to round off 2020, boasting a huge variety of original figurative and colourful paintings to choose from, as an ideal gift or a great investment. www.thedoorwaygallery.com

BORDERS Solo Gallery in Innerleithen has a GLASGOW The Roger Billcliffe Gallery PERTHSHIRE This fabulous teapot by David range of work by Scottish artists and makers. has a collection of over a hundred small Pantling is available in different patterns from These beautiful, smoke-fired ceramic gannets (20x20cm) paintings by some of Scotland’s Frames Gallery in Perth, from a range which are from a collection by Vivienne Sillar. best artists. Displayed unframed, they make also includes mugs, jugs, toast racks and a www.sologallery.co.uk perfect gifts. www.billcliffegallery.com butter dish. www.framesgallery.co.uk

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DUNDEE Gallery Q can fulfil all your art desires with paintings, prints, glass, ceramics and jewellery. They also offer gift vouchers, free postage within the UK, and interest-free payment by instalment with the Own Art scheme. www.galleryq.co.uk ABERDEENSHIRE Larks Gallery in Ballater GLASGOW & NEWCASTLE Paintings, Unique Gifts, Artists, Makers, on Royal Deeside has a range of work by AYR The Maclaurin Gallery celebrates the prints, cufflinks, cushions and mugs are Exhibitions & Events contemporary artist Lois Carson. A graduate creativity of a group of Ayrshire artists and the perfect gifts to suit every taste and ABERDEENSHIRE Eion Stewart Fine Art in Stonehaven is a contemporary art gallery and of Gray’s School of Art, she is pushing the makers, and has wonderful gift ideas, such as budget, from Alexander Millar, at their frame-maker, showing some of the best Scottish-based painters and makers in a year-round boundaries of her work. Janet Laurie’s jewellery, incorporating semi- Glasgow and Newcastle galleries, and at ……………………………… exhibition programme. www.eionstewartfineart.com www.larksgallery.com precious gemstones. www.themaclaurin.org.uk www.alexandermillar.com 16 | 27 November | Issue 141 27 November | Issue 141 | 17 14TH ANNUAL GIVE ARTS & &CRAFTS CRAFTS GIFT GUIDEGIFT GUIDE 14TH14TH ANNUAL ANNUALARTS & GIVECRAFTS ART ARTS GIFT & GUIDECRAFT & CRAFTS GIFT GIFT GUIDE GUIDE

EDINBURGH The Winter Exhibition at the Torrance Gallery in Edinburgh features a EDINBURGH Encourage a friend to try BORDERS Among the wide range of works ARGYLL The Small Works show at Resipole cornucopia of original artwork by over 40 something creative with a gift voucher for on sale at Flat Cat Gallery in Lauder is Studios in Acharacle offers unique gift ideas gallery artists, including this oil by Marion Leith School of Art, where the programme Standing Hare and Reclining Hare, sculpted includes Weekend Workshops, Day & in clay by Bernadette Wood, capturing the

for the art-lover in your life, including quality Drummond. They also have a wealth of Cottages up The Yarrow ceramics, painting, sculpture and more, for jewellery, ceramics, bronze and glassware. Evening courses and Summer Schools. hares' magical, mystical nature. under £500. www.resipolestudios.co.uk www.torrancegallery.co.uk WINTER MIXED www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk/gift-vouchers www.flatcatgallery.co.uk NOVEMBER MORAG LLOYDS EXHIBITION DECEMBER RONA KANT

Karen Thompson Karen Vessel 21 Nov – 22 Dec

51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL. 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk [email protected] Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Wed by appointment. DUBLIN & ONLINE The Doorway Gallery has a winter show to round off 2020, boasting a huge variety of original figurative and colourful paintings to choose from, as an ideal gift or a great investment. www.thedoorwaygallery.com the everlasting BORDERS Solo Gallery in Innerleithen has a GLASGOW The Roger Billcliffe Gallery PERTHSHIRE This fabulous teapot by David range of work by Scottish artists and makers. has a collection of over a hundred small Pantling is available in different patterns from These beautiful, smoke-fired ceramic gannets (20x20cm) paintings by some of Scotland’s Frames Gallery in Perth, from a range which are from a collection by Vivienne Sillar. best artists. Displayed unframed, they make also includes mugs, jugs, toast racks and a www.sologallery.co.uk perfectExhibi tgifts.ion owww.billcliffegallery.comf paintings by butter dish. www.framesgallery.co.uk Vibha Pankaj

The Dundas Street Gallery 6 Dundas Street, 10-5 MON, THURS, FRI, SAT DUNDEE Gallery Q can fulfil all your art Edinburgh EH3 6HZ desires with paintings, prints, glass, ceramics 11-5 SUN and jewellery. They also offer gift vouchers, free postage within the UK, and interest-free 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater payment by instalment with the Own Art scheme. www.galleryq.co.uk 013397 55888 ABERDEENSHIRE Larks Gallery in Ballater GLASGOW & NEWCASTLE Paintings, www.larksgallery.com 19 - 25 Nov 2020 on Royal Deeside has a range of work by AYR The Maclaurin Gallery celebrates the prints, cufflinks, cushions and mugs are 11am - 6pm contemporary artistFur tLoishe Carson.r det aA igraduatels at creativity of a group of Ayrshire artists and the perfect gifts to suit every taste and ABERDEENSHIRE Eion Stewart Fine Art in Stonehaven is a contemporary art gallery and of Gray’s School of Art, she is pushing the makers, and has wonderful gift ideas, such as budget, from Alexander Millar, at their frame-maker, showing some of the best Scottish-based painters and makers in a year-round boundariesw wof wher. vwork.ibh aartist.com Janet Laurie’s jewellery, incorporating semi- Glasgow and Newcastle galleries, and at exhibition programme. www.eionstewartfineart.com www.larksgallery.com precious gemstones. www.themaclaurin.org.uk www.alexandermillar.com 18 | 27 November | Issue 141 27 November | Issue 141 | 19 14TH14TH ANNUAL ANNUAL GIVE ARTARTS ART & & CRAFT&CRAFTS CRAFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GUIDE GUIDE GUIDE

Scottish Potters Coorie In by Fran Marquis

EDINBURGH Allium in South Queensferry EDINBURGH The doors are open daily has a wide and ever-changing range of original AYR The Maclaurin Gallery celebrates the at Edinburgh Art Shop or you can art, ceramics, glass and more by Scottish creativity of a group of Ayrshire artists and shop online for all types of art and craft artists and makers. This silver jewellery makers, and has wonderful gift ideas, such materials. Gift vouchers, special offers (pictured) is made in Allium by 14Ten Designs. as Claire Rennie’s misty ethereal scenes of and discounts for students and art groups www.alliumqueensferry.com Venice. www.themaclaurin.org.uk available. www.edinburghartshop.co.uk Within A Ceramics and tutoring Space New website 31 Oct - 29 Nov 2020 www.franmarquis.com Online exhibition at www.scottishpotters.org

Clience DUNDEE & ANGUS You can find ceramics Wildlife Art Studio by Fran Marquis on her new website, available to buy for Christmas and beyond, & Sculpture ARGYLL& BUTE The Archway Gallery in Lochgilphead has paintings, prints, ceramics, jewellery plus vouchers for pottery lessons in Highlands, Islands, Galloway and and crafts by artists and makers from Scotland and beyond, such as these traditional, hand- Arbroath to use when classes are possible Cumbria feature at this artist’s studio crafted figures from Mexico. www.thearchway.co.uk again. www.franmarquis.co.uk Robert Greenhalf and gallery. Anthony Theakston Angela works in a variety of sizes and Matt Underwood also presents a wide selection of signed archival prints as well as art gifts and calendars from her Galloway painting. SOC Seascape and Landscape Paintings by Waterston House Paintings, Prints and Commissions. Aberlady Thurs-Sun 10-4 Angela Lawrence Mon-Sat 10.30-5

22 Nov - 10 Jan Tues 10.30-4 Rugged Fleet isles at Sundown Mountain Side, By the Clocktower www.the-soc.org.uk 212 King Street Castle Douglas DG7 1DS 07902 301 883 www.cliencestudio.co.uk FIFE & TAYSIDE With shops in Cupar and KINROSS-SHIRE Beautiful landscapes by EDINBURGH The Velvet Easel Gallery angelalawrencecliencestudio Dundee, Maisie & Mac stocks prints, jewellery Nichol Wheatley sell out quickly due to in Portobello showcases a wide range of One household at a time are welcome and ceramics as well as work in wood, glass heavy demand. From January he is available contemporary paintings, glasswork, ceramics to drop in or book a time and textiles by UK artists and craftmakers. for new commissions. and jewellery by local artists and craftmakers www.maisieandmac.com www.nicholwheatley.com to suit all budgets. www.velveteasel.co.uk

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Bob Dylan dates the origins of his work as a visual artist to the early 1960s. A few drawings reached the public gaze with album covers like Music From Big Pink (1968) and Self Portrait (1970). In 1974 he studied with Ashcan School Twice gifted tutor Norman Raeben, who emphasised the importance of ‘perceptual honesty’ – painting Some people life as it as seen, not imagined. Dylan says of Billy Connolly Raeben: “He put my mind and my hand and have too discovered a talent for my eye together in a way that allowed me to much talent. art later than most, when do consciously what I unconsciously felt.” one cold, rainy day in While on tour between 1989 and 1992, ot content with making their 2007, while on tour in Dylan created a collection of drawings mark in one field, musicians, Montreal, he bought capturing his chance encounters and actors, comedians, politicians some felt tip pens and a observations, including portraits, interiors, and others have also turned sketchbook and retreated landscapes, still lifes, nudes and street scenes. their hand to art. In fact, for to his hotel room. They were done, he said, “to relax and refocus Nmany, art or photography was their first He first exhibited in a restless mind”. calling. 2012 with the suitably This seems particularly true of music- titled Born on a Rainy makers, with the likes of John Lennon, Pete Day collection of pen Townshend, Bryan Ferry, Freddie Mercury, Eric and ink drawings mainly Clapton and Joni Mitchell all exploring their depicting figures swathed creativity initially in art school. in bandages. Connolly’s spirit and the flesh. Here we take a look at some of the visual characters are faceless, As a teenager, Leonard Nimoy developed One critic wrote: ‘Nimoy is igniting an work produced by celebrities known mainly anonymous, seemingly ‘unjudged’. I am creating it for myself. It is photographs in his family’s bathroom- artistic debate...over art and censorship for a different pursuit and ponder what might devoid of emotion or expression, yet make an personal and private, whereas with a film, turned-darkroom. He went on to study at that echoes the battles that swirled over have been had they taken a different path. emotional connection with the viewer. comedy show or music you expect people the University of California in Los Angeles Mapplethorpe and other artists like Andres The process he uses is similar to that to be critiquing, watching, assessing. Art is in the 1970s under Robert Heineken, later Serrano and Chris Ofili, who created of the Surrealist Automatism movement, different. It liberates you.” receiving an artist in residence appointment controversial religious imagery.’ whereby the artist allows the hand to move One of his designs, Blue Angel, recently at the American Academy in Rome. Nimoy’s photography is included in randomly across the paper or canvas without appeared on the wrapper of a limited edition His first book of photography, Shekhina, many museum collections, including the the intent to create anything specific. chocolate bar released by the Edinburgh- published in 2002, sold out of its first Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Los Connolly describes his artistic process based artisan chocolatier COCO to raise printing in less than a month. Based on Angeles County Museum of Art and the as something he cannot explain, but which funds for NHS charities. Pictured: And on the concept in the Kabbalah of the female New Orleans Museum of Fine Art. Pictured: seemingly takes him over as he begins to Monday, God Made the World manifestation of God, it explores the Shekhina www.rmichelson.com create. He says: “Art, for me, bears no relation www.castlefineart.com provocative and complex relationship of the to comedy or music. My art is pure and These drawings formed the basis of watercolour and gouache paintings in the A keen watercolourist, Prince In 2002 Nelson Mandela revisited Robben crayon lines providing the guide, created the 2008 collection The Drawn Blank Series – Charles has depicted many Island, where he had been incarcerated for 17 final pictures. Sorted in five editions, they vibrant, expressive works with the same image scenes around the Royal homes at years, in the company of a photographer, who symbolised the struggle in South Africa and painted several times in different colours and Balmoral, Sandringham, Highgrove shot images of Mandela’s prison cell as well as the triumph over the tyranny of the apartheid tones. Later collections include The Beaten and Windsor Castle as well as the guard towers, lighthouse, church, quarry, years. Path, Train Tracks, Mondo Scripto and The landscapes of favourite places Table Mountain and other scenes. Although the subsequenr prints depicted Brazil Series. around the world, such as Greece, Mandela then completed over 20 places where many suffered, the colourful Marisha Pessl wrote in the New York Switzerland and Arabia. Signed, sketches from the photographs, observed by renderings represented hope prevailing over Times: ‘Dylan’s brush strokes are like his voice: limited edition lithographs based a young South African art teacher, Varenka adversity and brutality and a symbolic link straightforward, rough, occasionally fragile, on his watercolours are sold to Paschke, who guided him through basic with a reality outside the harsh prison regime. but always intent on illustrating the treads raise money for the Prince of composition and colour application. When sold, they raised millions of pounds for of human experience…He’s not after artistic Wales Charitable Foundation. Mandela himself did not complete the Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation perfection, but something larger – a moment, Pictured: Ballochbuie, Balmoral any final pieces, but a series of separations and a series of African children’s charities. a feeling.’ Pictured: Vista From Balcony, 2012 www.belgraviagallery.com which, when overlaid on the strong, black Pictured: The Cell www.castlefineart.com

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When not acting, Jane Seymour can be found in her Malibu studio, producing delicate watercolours, vibrant oil paintings, pastels and bronze sculptures. She has her own gallery in Los Angeles and has exhibited in numerous galleries across North America. She began painting during a period of personal challenge, her art becoming part of a healing process. She emerged as an accomplished artist, with floral studies, landscapes and portraits of her family as recurring subjects. Seymour has also created set designs for the Houston Ballet and has been selected three times as an official Olympic artist – for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Pictured: Cinderella’s Slipper, oil FROM ART... www.janeseymour.com Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is TO CRAFT the epitome of artist-turned-rock ‘n’ roller. Original acrylic to oils, glass to Having trained at Ealing College of Art, he gemstones and much more has continued to pursue these two parallel interests. He has produced landscapes, portraiture and abstract and architectural works in a variety of media, including charcoal, oil, watercolour, spray paint, pastel and acrylic. He says: “There is no kind of therapy like the one you have from starting and seeing a picture through to the end. Unlike music, it’s a solo effort. There’s no one else to blame.” Wood’s paintings often portray band-mates Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards. Pictured: On Stage Suite - Twang www.castlefineart.com

The actor Pierce Brosnan has painted for many years, his abstracts, figurative works and Mixed exhibition with landscapes in acrylic and oil exploding with colour. Self- featured artist: taught, he does not sell his work 93 CAUSEWAYSIDE privately, but often donates EDINBURGH EH9 1QG Hilke MacIntyre pieces to charity auctions. One 0131 629 9123 of them, a portrait of Bob Dylan, sold for $1.4 million in 2018 to 07801 581674 benefit the amFar Institute for www.artcraftcollective.co.uk HIV Cure Research. OPEN TUESDAY - SUNDAY www.galleryq.co.uk Queen’s Hotel Buildings, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU 01382 220600 www.piercebrosnan.com/ artist

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Perhaps more cognisant than anyone else in the popular music field of the power of the visual image, David Bowie, a product of Bromley School of Art in London, always blended his musical output with a strong art and design element in album artwork and set and costume design. Often influenced by Surrealism and Actor Jeff Bridges took his first photograph and public one on the right. It’s a good kind German Expressionism, he produced in 1976 on a movie set during the filming of of snapshot camera, which is fine, since I paintings, sketches, mixed media the King Kong remake. He says: “Actors often don’t try to differentiate between a snapshot constructions and installations and his images find things to distract themselves between and some other kind of photograph. have been reproduced on wallpaper, linocut takes, so they don’t overthink the work they Another reason I like the Widelux format prints and limited edition postcards. have to do and are able to relax. Some knit, I is its similarity to the format you see in the His artwork has been frequently exhibited, take photographs.” cinema.” including at the Royal College of Art and He began to use a Widelux camera, Bridges has received an Infinity the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Florence explaining: “I love the idea that there is so Award from the International Center for Biennale and the New Expressionist Exhibition much information on the negative. Scanning Photography. Pictured: Scene from the set of in Berlin. Pictured: Self-portrait in the pose an image might take you from a very quiet, True Grit adopted for the album cover of the Heroes private world on the left, to a very chaotic album © The David Bowie Archive 2012 Y A L E R E G

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Duncan and Jacqui Grant of Lava Jewellery Ceramicist Clare Dawdry of We Make Pots Hungarian-born textile artist Edina Széles, in Aberdeenshire use gold, platinum and makes bowls, mugs, vases and jugs which now based in the Shetland Islands, works diamonds to make a series of collections combine form and functionality. Decoration with constructed textiles and traditional inspired mainly by the Scottish landscape. is quietly evocative of the landscapes and techniques to create hand-woven artworks Paper artist Anna Cook makes remarkably into single layers of tonal paper before moulding This pendant (pictured) is from their recent seascapes of Dumfries and Galloway. They such as her Black series of wall-hangings intricate scenes which capture the personality and sculpting the design and mounting them Rockpool collection based on the coastal sport a variety of matt and shiny surfaces using natural black Shetland and Icelandic of birds and animals and depict them in their onto deep box frames. rock formations near Stonehaven. They also and subtle colour changes achieved through wool (pictured) and her Abandoned natural habitat. The pieces are created by cutting www.annacookpaperart.co.uk have a selection of Burns-themed pieces. layering glazes and often multiple firings. Crofthoose felted works inspired by old www.lavajewellery.co.uk www.wemakepots.com ruins. www.edinaszeles.com

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Centro de Arte Moderna Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

6,000 pieces (he called them his “children”) including Regency furniture and Beauvais, breakneck speed until his early death of date from antiquity to the early 20th century Aubusson and Gobelins tapestries. Both pneumonia aged 30, when his career was and include examples from Egypt, Greece, sections end in a room devoted to Art at its height. There are also works by British Babylonia, Persia, the Islamic Orient, Europe, Nouveau, including a collection of jewellery artists such as David Hockney and Anthony China and Japan. and glass by René Lalique. Gormley. www.cam.gulbenkian.pt Gulbenkian’s dream of a museum to www.museu.gulbenkian.pt house his collection took over 30 years Jump on the No.15 tram to the Belem district to realise. As early as 1937 he started On the other side of the park – you’ll pass in the western part of the city, where across discussions about a “Gulbenkian Institute” a Henry Moore sculpture in the garden the street from the massive Jeronimos at the National Gallery in London. After a on the way over – is the Centro de Arte Monastery (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) diplomatic spat with the British Government Moderna (CAM), also run by the Gulbenkian and next to the Praca do Imperio (Empire during WWII (he had followed the French Foundation. You can buy a joint ticket to visit Square) with its impressive fountain, you’ll Government to Vichy as a member of the both. CAM’s permanent exhibition includes find the Belem Cultural Centre, Portugal’s Persian diplomatic delegation and was drawing, painting, sculpture and installation, largest cultural building. named an “enemy under the act”, a status with a special focus on Portuguese art A modern take on a medieval ‘castillo’ Carlos Botelho (1889-1992), Lisbon and the Tagus, Sunday, 1935, oil on wood (Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea) which was later revoked), he then considered produced in the first decades of the 20th made of huge sandstone blocks, this the National Gallery of Art in Washington. century. sprawling complex is home to the Berardo Gulbenkian eventually settled in Lisbon, The display changes annually to Museum and one of the world’s most Lisbon is one of Europe’s where he remained utill his death. The entire showcase a selection of works from the acclaimed collections of modern and collection was brought to Portugal and in museum’s collection of around 9,000 contemporary art rivalling anything in New best value destinations for 1969 hiss wish to see it housed under one pieces. This is complemented by an York, London or Paris. art-lovers. Affordable roof was fulfilled with the opening of the annual temporary exhibition of works by specially built museum. Portuguese and t the World Travel Lisbon also boasts world class museums The permanent exhibition galleries are international Market, the largest annual showing virtually the entire spectrum laid out in chronological and geographical artists. meeting of travel industry of artistic output from antiquity to the order to create two circuits. The first A highlight professionals, Lisbon has present day. Many of the public and private showcases classical and Oriental art (the is the largest been named several times collections are housed in former palaces and latter Gulbenkian’s special interest), including existing as the best value city in the Artcity centre. convents which would be worth a visit even ceramics, coins, vessels, tapestries, furniture, collection EurozoneA for meals, drinks, sightseeing, travel Lisbon is the oldest city in Western without their museum displays. illustrated manuscripts and sculpture, of work by and accommodation. Europe and the second oldest capital on while the second covers European art in a Amadeo The Portuguese capital is known for the continent after Athens. Europe’s only In its sleek complex overlooking the stupendous display of paintings by giants de Souza- its year-round pleasant climate (including coastal capital, its historic port sits at the beautifully landscaped Parque Santa such as Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck, Renoir, Cardoso, who the warmest winters of any European mouth of the river Tagus from which the Gertrudes, the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian Gainsborough, Turner, Rousseau, Monet, produced an metropolis), rich culture, grand architecture city spreads out over a series of hills. While a is named after the Turkish-born oil magnate Sargent, Degas, Corot and Manet. extraordinary (often with a maritime theme, reflecting the massive earthquake in 1755 devastated three and one of the 20th century’s wealthiest French art and decorative arts body of work city’s historical relationship with the sea) and quarters of the city, it still has plenty of old men, who over four decades amassed one are particularly prominent, reflecting of various beaches located just 20 minutes from the world charm. of the world’s finest private collections. The Gulbenkian’s lengthy residence in Paris and genres at 30 | 27 November | Issue 141 27 November | Issue 141 | 31 ART & TRAVEL

as Phillipe Starck, a sculpture garden featuring 19th and 20th Charles Eames, Gerrit century bronze works. Rietveld and Arne www.museuartecontemporanea.pt Jacobsen. Callan at 60 The museum Housed in a 17th century palace with an A retrospective of work from the past 25 years and brand new work from 2020 also holds extension in the former convent of Santo Portuguese Alberto, the Museu Nacional de Arte businessman Antiga (MNAA, or National Gallery of Francisco Capelo’s Ancient Art) houses a vast collection of fashion collection European art and artefacts from the Middle of some 1,200 Ages to the 19th century, including painting, couture pieces by sculpture, metalwork, ceramics, textiles, famous names such furniture, drawings and other decorative arts. as Jean Paul Gaultier, The many highlights include: an Vivienne Westwood, astonishing sold silver table centrepiece The achievement of Madeira-born Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior. belonging to King Jose I (1750-77); a businessman Jose Manuel Rodrigues Berardo, Do not miss the beautiful mosaic monstrance reportedly created out of gold the eye-popping collection comprises over from 1962 between the ground floor and brought back to Portugal from East Africa 900 works representing dozens of artistic the lower level left over from the Banco by the famous admiral and explorer Vasco movements. A list of the artists reads like Nacional Ultramarino days. www.mude.pt da Gama; and, perhaps most famously, the a Who’s Who of modern art, including 15th century Saint Vincent Panels attributed Warhol, Picasso, Dali, Duchamp, Magritte, For an excellent overview of Portuguese to Nuno Gonçalves. Featuring 60 people 11-17 Dec. Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. art from 1850 to 1975, head for the Museu from all levels of late medieval Portuguese Includes work on loan from private collections and new work for sale. Modigliani, Miro, Bacon, Pollock, Koons Opening events planned for Fri 11 & Sat 12 (subject to regulations). and many more – over 170 in all. Strolling Nacional de Arte Contemporanea (MNAC), Also viewable online with an accompanying catalogue. through the Berardo is like taking a walk which houses the country’s most important www.damiancallan.com through the history of 20th century art. collection of state-owned modern and en.museuberardo.pt (Tip: After your visit, contemporary art. The permanent exhibition cross the street to Pasteis de Belem, named includes works by Portugal’s greatest artists, raee l g yle after the custard-filled pastries served warm such as Veloso Salgado, Silva Porto (dubbed and oven fresh in this legendary Lisbon cafe “the divine master”), Carlos Reis, Sousa dating from 1837 and decorated with its Lopes, Jose Malhao, Aurelia de Sousa and original wall tiling.) Antonio Carneiro. The building stands on the site of a A stone’s throw from the magnificent former monastery which was later used as a Berardo Museum triumphal arch leading to the Praca do biscuit factory, and the temporary exhibition MIXED EXHIBITION Comercio (Commerce Square) and the space, the Sala dos Fornos (Oven Room), is society venerating Saint Vincent, the patron waterfront, the Museu do Design e da named after the brick ovens which still line saint of Lisbon, it is one of the first collective 1 9 Nov - 20 Dec Moda, or MUDE (which also means ‘change’ the corridor outside it. The vaulted brick portraits in European art. Paul Bartlett in Portuguese) is one of the world’s leading ceiling in the reception area recalls both its Also known as the Museu das Janelas museums of 20th century design and monastic and industrial past, while the rest Verdes, or Green Windows Museum (and Contemporary art by established fashion. of the modern refurb relies heavily on stone, located in Green Windows Street), the and emerging Scottish artists. Located in a former bank building metal and wood. MNAA also has a selection of European Large variety of landscape and stripped down to bare walls, concrete floor Limited exhibition space restricts the paintings by, among others, Hieronymus ONLY HUMAN wildlife art - ranging from and supporting pillars so as to better focus display to around a hundred works at a time Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Albrecht representational to attention on the collection of over 2,500 from a collection of over 5,000 pieces. These Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Piero della Francesca, Jackie Anderson, Jennifer Anderson, impressionistic - and a good objects, the museum traces the history of are arranged by chronology and artistic Holbein, Raphael, Tintoretto, van Dyck and Henry Jabbour, Angela Repping selection of Perthshire scenes. design from the 1930s to the present in movement, starting in the late 1870s, when Velazquez. www.museudearteantiga.pt furniture, electrical appliances, glassware and the first Portuguese painters supported (Tip: After your visit relax in Le Chat, a glass- & Graeme Wilcox FREE UK DELIVERY with sculpture from Alejandro Lopez other household objects, many of which are by the state to study in France returned walled cafe-bar next door with sweeping aberfeldygallery.co.uk now so everyday that their revolutionary home, bringing with them the new trend of views over the 25th of April Bridge – a dead capturing the light and climatic features of ringer for San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge 31 October to 29 November 2020 9 Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, PH1 5 2BL design and function are hardly considered. 01 887 8291 29 (Think Post-Its.) In all, there are works by landscapes in open air painting. The visitor – and the comings and goings on the river.) 7-8 Stanley Road, Gullane EH31 2AD Margaret Evans (cropped image) [email protected] some 230 designers responsible for starting is then taken on a crash course through the t: 01620 249389 | e: [email protected] worldwide trends, including icons such last century of Portuguese art. There is also FURTHER INFO: www.visitlisboa.com www.fidrafineart.co.uk

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After the Final Curtain: America’s “movie palaces”, were designed to make their Lambros has captured the faded beauty of Abandoned Theaters, by Matt Lambros, patrons feel like royalty and people would buildings once alive with music, laughter Festive Window – Catherine Imhof Cardinal Festive pub. Jonglez Publishing In the early 20th dress up for a night out. But the advent of TV and drama which now stand silent and still, A warm inviting independent gallery century the streets of towns and cities changed viewing habits and it became harder slowly surrendering to neglect and decay. offering a wide range of Scottish artists, across America were lined with movie to fill 2,000-plus seats, forcing many theatres designers and makers. theatres. The most opulent, known as to close. Architectural photographer Matt New Autumn works Catherine Imhof Cardinal The Poster – 200 Years of Art and Pete Morrison History, ed. Jürgen Döring, pub. Prestel This stunningly illustrated book examines Sarah Koetsier poster design and its relation to the arts and broader culture. Featuring 480 illustrations by over 200 artists, this expansive overview explores the use of posters as a versatile advertising tool from the early 19th century onwards, often incorporating the style of leading art movements with contributions from artists such as Alphonse Mucha, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. A

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Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH [email protected] 01330 844664 www.miltonart.com Abstract Art – A Global History, by Pepe Karmel, pub. Thames & Hudson Beginning with his exploration of the origins and evolution of the genre with the assertion that ‘Abstract art is always rooted in experience of the real world’, art historian Pepe Karmel takes us beyond the traditional histories of abstraction as a sequence of ‘isms’ with less interest in how it relates to the real world and also beyond the core group of European and North American artists who usually dominate the topic. Instead, Karmel shows how artists around the world have used abstract imagery to convey personal, social and political Tide, Sanna – Pete Morrison Sanna – Pete Tide, experience. 34 | 27 November | Issue 141 27 November | Issue 141 | 35 LOST ART

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In a new project by the Samsung electronics company, art-lovers and amateur detectives are invited to share any tips, theories or clues they can find in online media reports, blogs or social media using the hashtag #MissingMasterpieces. Further info: www.samsung.com/uk/explore/ entertainment/missing-masterpieces-and-lost-art-on-the-frame

Vincent van Gogh Dual Narratives Part 1 Dual Narratives Part 2 The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884) This view of the back garden of his father’s www.martautsler.com parsonage is one of Van Gogh’s earliest [email protected] 07758 335417 works. The church in the distance has now been demolished, while the parsonage and garden still survive in Nuenen near Eindhoven. The painting was stolen in a smash and grab from the Singer Laren Winter Exhibition Museum in the Netherlands on March 30, at the Archway 2020 – Van Gogh’s birthday. Artists include: Caroline Hunter, Victoria Maxwell Macdonald, John Lowrie Morrison, Christine Russell, Louise Oppenheimer, Vincent van Gogh Scott Macdonald, Penelope Timmis. Ceramics by Jane Adams, Christine Cummings. Portrait of Dr Gachet (1884) Jewellery by Helen Shere, Margaret Ker Dr Gachet worked in the sanatorium into

Jolomo Canal Crinan Old Lily Pond The Smoke Evening which Van Gogh admitted himself after a mental breakdown when he mutilated his ear. Doctor and artist shared a close resemblance. In 1990 the Japanese businessman Ryoei Saito bought the painting for $82.5 million, later wishing to be cremated with it when he died. It is now believed to be in a private Swiss collection. Tarbert Skiffs Scott Macdonald Tarbert Leigh Shepherd Leigh Collection Fern Garden Jane Adams Swimmer Wild The Archway Gallery 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS | 01546 606894 www.thearchway.co.uk

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Jean Baptiste Oudry White Duck (1753) Oudry was the court painter to Louis XV of France. This still life was stolen from the collection of the Marquess of Cholmondeley at Houghton Hall in Norfolk in 1992. Some investigators believe it was passed into the hands of a gypsy gang based in the region and a former police informer claimed that the painting was hidden in the attic of a remote, derelict house in the Northumberland moors.

Paul Cézanne Open daily until Christmas View of Auvers-sur-Oise (c.1879-80) Ian Ledward Spring Storm across the West Sands Ian Ledward 11am - 5pm This study of a cluster of rural houses shows Cézanne’s ability to bend perspective for dramatic effect. Burglars took advantage of New Year’s Eve 1999 festivities to steal the painting in cat burglar style from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford by climbing adjacent scaffolding, smashing a skylight, dropping a rope ladder down and shielding their path with a smoke bomb. They brought Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. a portable fan to blow the smoke and obscure themselves from Closed Sun & Mon CCTV cameras. The alarms rang, but the smoke led security staff to think it was a fire, so they called the fire brigade rather than Now introducing 138 South Street intervene, giving the thieves time to escape. St Andrews, KY16 9EQ A Scottish Autumnal Collection 01334 474331 [email protected] www.sprosongallery.com A contemporary art gallery in St Andrews sprosongallery

William Blake Last Judgement (1808) The multi-talented mystic of British art, Blake was a brilliant painter, publisher and poet. Inspired by Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel, this lost painting shows the dead rising to be sent eternally to Heaven or Hell – one of the many “visions” Blake claimed to have which were manifested in his work. The figures would likely have been vibrantly coloured, but the exhibition for which it was planned was cancelled and the painting was lost with many other works.

Claude Monet Charing Cross Bridge and Waterloo Bridge (1899-1904) Fascinated with how light affects and alters his subjects, Monet painted dozens of versions of both of these, each with subtle differences, two of which were stolen in October 2012 from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The mother of one of the thieves convicted claimed that she burned Waterloo Bridge in her stove in Romania 33 High Street, Aberdour, Fife in an attempt to destroy evidence against her son. Police did find 01383 860602 traces of pigment, but not enough to verify her claims. www.thequaygallery.co.uk

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David Teniers the Younger Summer (c. 1644) In this painting from a series of Allegories of the Four Seasons by the Dutch artist best known for painting bawdy tavern scenes, workers are harvesting wheat on a hot day. Teniers painted several versions of the series and one version of Summer was stolen from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon in 1974. József Lampérth Neme Landscape (1917) This painting by the avant- garde Hungarian artist went missing from a storage warehouse belonging to the MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen, Hungary. Archives and warehouses are popular targets with thieves, as it might be months before anyone notices something is missing. However, works in storage require specialised knowledge to locate, so a theft like this suggests an ‘inside job’. FLAT CAT GALLERY SPECIALIST and cafe SHIPPERS OF FINE ART & ANTIQUES

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Jacob Jordaens WEEKLY ONLINE GALLERY 2 A Mythological Scene with a Young Bacchus (1640) This masterpiece by the Dutch Old Master was one of thousands looted EXHIBITIONS SERIES from Poland during WWII. The painting shows the great influence of Rubens, a generation older than Jordaens and also from Antwerp. Bacchus, Jason Michael Bentley the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, is shown as a young child American painter living in Scotland surrounded by female nymphs and satyrs (half-man, half-goat creatures). Painting, drawing & fine art portraiture Poland’s rich cultural heritage collections were decimated by both the Nazis and the Russian Red Army. This work was taken from the J.K. Bartoszewicz EITHNE ROBERTS Museum of History and Art in Lodz. Nov 9-15 Barbora Kyslikova Chloe & Emma (2013) Soon after the Czech painter moved to Oslo, two of her most important artworks were stolen. She made a documentary, The Painter and the Thief, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and told the true story of how she traced and developed an unlikely friendship with a young man who stole her paintings. Since her oversized, photorealistic works had a limited audience beyond Norway until the film was seen, the theft was more likely an Offering a complete range of mouldings, original act of passion rather than an attempt at profit. (Most thieves know art, limited editions and unique gifts. Plus contract ALISON DICKSON picture framing for hotels, pubs and restaurants. nothing about the art they take, only seeing it as a portable, high 9-5 Mon-Fri, 9-3 Sat value commodity.) This case is also unusual in that the apprehended Nov 16-22 72 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock thieves claim not to remember anything or what they did with the 01563 550 303 Gallery2Kilmarnock paintings, since they were so “incapacitated” at the time.

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