29 January 2021 Issue 148 Pictured: S.J. Peploe, Flowers and fruit with Japanese background (detail) from the Kirkcaldy Art Gallery online exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth. See ARTS NEWS. A big thank you to my customers WEEKEND WORKSHOPS and artists in 2020 Book our WEEKEND WORKHOPS online - beginning January 2021. To celebrate, a few of my favourite BEGINNERS | DRAWING & PAINTING | JEWELLERY 2020 memories ILLUSTRATION | PORTRAITURE | ARTIST’S BOOKS PRINTMAKING | ABSTRACT PAINTING 13-15 Bank Street, Aberfeldy PH15 2BB YEAR-LONG COURSES 2021/22 [email protected] www.artisanand.co.uk 01887 822 700 / 07703 733 230 Applications are now open for YEAR-LONG COURSES - starting September 2021 FOUNDATION | PAINTING | DRAWING CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE | FIGURE | LANDSCAPE ONE DAY PAINTING | PRINTMAKING Leith School of Art, 25 North Junction Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HW www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk | 0131 554 5761 | [email protected] 2 | 29 January 2021 | Issue 148 29 January 2021 | Issue 148 | 3 ARTS NEWS Exhibitions are online and in gallery regarded as Stead’s when Government guidance allows. most important MILTON Limited edition print of the original painting achievement, with choing something we would all the interior, which ART GALLERY ‘Come Home Soon’ by Alexander Millar like to do these days, Escape features entirely at the Whitehouse Gallery original sculpted in Kirkcudbright (Jan 30-Mar fixtures and fittings, This new, signed artwork recalls an industrial era when the family breadwinner 6) is an online exhibition of attesting to his worked long hours and leisure time was limited. It is one of a collection that revisits the paintings and prints by 20 extraordinary artist’s signature themes of placing the working man in wider dramatic cityscapes. artists taking viewers on a virtual journey craftsmanship. through Scotland with scenes of wilderness, Stead, who died countryside, coastline, glens and islands. in 2000 at the age of 48, is known for There are also images of France and Italy, The Borders home of the late furniture- works such as Cafe Gandolfi in Glasgow, the birds in flight and still life and figurative maker, woodworker and environmentalist Millennium Clock at the National Museum works. Tim Stead has been saved for the nation of Scotland in Edinburgh and the oil industry Framed and unframed and in a variety of after a late flurry of private and public memorial chapel in the Kirk of St Nicholas in sizes, purchased works will be posted free of donations to the Tim Stead Trust enabled it Aberdeen. www.timsteadtrust.org charge direct from the artist’s studio to your to reach its target of £450,000. home. You can contact the gallery to find The family home near Lauder is First Daffodils Ury – Francis Boag out more about a work or about more works by a particular artist. everywhere. There were more Peploes Visit our website or view The Whitehouse Gallery participates in than works by the other Colourists and the the Own Art scheme, which allows buyers landscapes featured either the cold blue our social media pages to pay for works priced between £100 light of Scotland or the fierce brightness of during lockdown and £2,500 in ten monthly, interest-free Royan and Cassis.” payments. Pictured: Anne Skinner, December Peploe’s grandson Guy Peploe, director Sun www.whitehousegallery.co.uk of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, cites Palm Trees, Antibes (pictured), as his favourite work by him. The Kirkcaldy Art Gallery works can be viewed on the Art UK website: www.bit.ly/2NmbIYd. The Maclaurin Gallery in Ayr is hosting the Crovie – Kanita Sim Ayr Arts Circle annual exhibition online this Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH year (Feb 1-Mar 29). Over 100 works can be [email protected] viewed virtually, then purchsed through the 01330 844 664 Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth ASC’s own website. Pictured: Colin Mackay, www.miltonart.com of the Scottish Colourist Samuel Peploe, Loch an Eilean www.themaclaurin.org.uk the Kirkcaldy Art Gallery has launched a virtual exhibition of the artist’s work from the collection managed by the Fife Cultural Trues. With 46 Peploe paintings, the gallery Order online alexandermillar.com or has the largest group of his work outside [email protected] National Galleries Scotland. The works derive mainly from the collection of the Kirkcaldy linen Princes Square 55-59 Grey Street manufacturer J.W. Blyth (1873-1962), part Buchanan Street Newcastle of which was purchased by Kirkcaldy Town Glasgow upon Tyne Council following Blyth’s death. Blyth was 0141 221 7565 0191 230 4440 the grandfather of the former Conservative MP Michael Portillo, who recalls visiting Autumn at Dalquahandy Farm – Deborah Phillips Blyth’s home: “There were paintings 4 | 29 January 2021 | Issue 148 29 January 2021 | Issue 148 | 5 ARTS NEWS ith cinemas currently historian Tim Marlow, Director of the Design Amaazin.Scot is a new online marketplace closed, the excellent Museum in London, some 30 films were shot showcasing independent Scottish designers. Exhibition On Screen on location in over 50 galleries, museums, The wide range of products includes films are available on DVD churches and palaces throughout the world. furniture, homewares, art, glasswork, textiles, Norwegian JanuaryNorwegian or to stream, from a 2-disc set featuring all Together they build a comprehensive survey lighting and jewellery. 14 episodes of Great Art Series 1 to single of the history of western Art. 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Analysing a In front of the Basilica of San Marco are the Palazzo Ducale, the Prisons (Prigoni) and the Palazzo Dandolo (today the Hotel Danieli). This is the religious, administrative Masterpiece and political heart of Venice. Lucy Whitaker is Senior Curator of Paintings at the Royal Collection THE MARRIAGE OF THE SEA Trust. Here she explains one of the most famous scenes in world art, The gilded Bucintoro, the ceremonial galley Canaletto’s The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day, c.1733-34. of the Doge, Venice’s most senior elected official, was used once a year for the e are looking at the most THE VIEW Marriage of the Sea festival. At the prow of famous view of Venice This was the first sight of Venice that visitors the Bucintoro are the gold figure of justice, on the day of the most had of the city. From left to right are: the the ducal umbrella and the standards of the important festival in the Zecca (Mint), the Library of St Mark, the Republic. To the left is the Fusta, the Doge’s Venetian calendar – the famous Campanile and the Torre dell’ galleon. W‘Sposalizio del Mar’, or Marriage of the Sea, Orologio (Clock Tower). After AD 1000, Venice marked an held on Ascension Day to commemorate Two huge granite columns are surmounted important naval victory by a blessing of the Christian belief of the bodily ascension by the symbols of Venice: a statue of the first the sea on Ascension Day. In 1177 the Pope of Jesus into Heaven. Canaletto provides us patron saint of the city, San Teodoro (Saint gave the Doge a gold ring and the right to with an exact record of the occasion, but – Theodosius) and the winged lion of St Mark, marry the sea as a sign of his lordship over as always – transforms reality into a work of forming a monumental ‘gate’ to the city for it. By 1267 the two ceremonies had been art. visitors approaching from the sea. (Ironically, combined to symbolise Venetian domination today walking between the columns is the over the Adriatic Sea. 8 | 29 January 2021 | Issue 148 29 January 2021 | Issue 148 | 9 ANATOMY OF A PAINTING THE CEREMONY a telescope to get a better view. (Galileo, have been diminished and the Campanile The day started with Mass sung in San Marco inventor of the telescope, also used it on the shortened, while the Zecca and the Libreria after which the Doge and his entourage of Campanile.) on the left are enlarged.