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  • Scottish Art

 
Still Life in bronze

Still LIfe in Bronze

01/12/2008

Morag Farquharson (oh, how she hates the name Morag!) was born and bred in the rolling green hills of Aberdeenshire, a farm factor’s daughter with a keen eye for all the quirky details that shape an animal’s character and individuality: a hare sitting bolt upright, listening intently, ready for flight; ducks marching in step like feathered guardsmen; a scrappy terrier grinning as he bounds after a ball.

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National Trust for Scotland The Arran Banner
 
Balnakeil Bay

Balnakeil Bay

28/11/2008

I have painted throughout the length and breadth of Scotland over many years and I’ve fetched up in some bonny places, but I can honestly say that few of them can rival the truly breathtaking, untouched splendour of Balnakeil Bay on the Pentland Firth in Sutherland.

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Sillycat Media Scottish Field Magazine
 
Capital Caricatures

Capital Caricatures

21/11/2008

It was Alexander McCall Smith who first drew my attention to the genius of John Kay, the artist who recorded “the whole human comedy” of Enlightenment Edinburgh. He suggested that I start with a visit to the artist’s long forgotten final resting place among the tumbled tombstones of Greyfriar’s Kirkyard.

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Craigellachie Hotel on Speyside The Argyllshire Advertiser
 
Alan Beattie Herriott

Alan Beattie Herriott

17/11/2008

Alan Beattie Herriot is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest and most successful public sculptors. His distinctive monumental works in bronze appear throughout Scotland, England, France and the Netherlands and yet most people outside the art cognoscenti have almost certainly never heard of him. Which suits Alan Herriot just fine.

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The Oban Times The Town House Company
 
Carving the Stirling Heads

Carving the Stirling Heads

17/11/2008

John Donaldson is that rarity in the art world, a gifted sculptor and master carver who is completely self-taught. The freshness and originality of his work stem quite literally from his natural, intuitive feel for shape and form, a kind of sixth sense that allows him to see as a blind person does, with the subtle touch of his finger tips informing his imagination.

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Eilean Iarmain Hotel on Skye. Old Postcards from Fort William.
 

Hebridean Odyessy

26/08/2008

Scottish painter, David Humphreys, sets sail on a voyage through the timeless beauty of the Western Isles.

 

 

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The Campbeltown Courier
 

The Scend of the Sea

25/08/2008

The American marine painter, William Gilkerson displays a rare understanding of the ways of a ship on the sea. It is that understanding, born of long experience with wind and water, which makes his pictures so compelling. It has also helped to confirm his reputation as one of North America’s pre-eminent marine artists. At his home on the shores of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, he spoke with Bruce Stannard.

 

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Samuel John Peploe

19/08/2008

Samuel Peploe is considered to be one of the most signifi cant fi gures in 20th century Scottish painting. Born in Edinburgh, he worked for a legal fi rm before enrolling at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1894.

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John Duncan Ferguson

15/08/2008

John Fergusson was born in Edinburgh’s portcity, Leith, in 1874 and forsook a medical career to train as a painter. He enrolled at the Trustees’ Academy in Edinburgh but left soon after and preferred to remain largely self-taught.

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Caddelll

11/08/2008

The Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau (Bunty) Cadell was born in Edinburgh in 1883 into a traditional middle class family. From an early age he displayed a prodigious natural artistic ability which resulted in his parents being persuaded to allow him to attend art school in Paris at the tender age of sixteen.

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