Catalogue featuring a selection of works in our Winter exhibition at Morningside Gallery November 2023
MORNINGSIDE GALLERY
WINTER EXHIBITION 18.11.23 - 03.12.23
R IGHT The Promise | Morag Muir Acrylic on Board | ?? x ?? cm | £1400 COVER Sound of Silence | Gordon Mitchell Oil on Canvas | 94 x 79 cm | £6950
WINTER EXHIBITION 18.11.23 - 03.12.23 JENNIFER IRVINE RGI RSW EUAN MCGREGOR PA I ANDREW THOMPSON GORDON MITCHELL RSA RSW RGI FRANCIS BOAG
GEORGINA MCMASTER SIMON LAURIE RSW RGI MORAG MUIR PAI RSW PETER KING ALLAN MACDONALD
MORNINGSIDE GALLERY
WINTER EXHIBITION 18.11.23 - 03.12.23
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Our Winter Exhibition is a vibrant and diverse exhibition, bringing together an exciting group of outstanding contemporary Scottish painters. This catalogue only illustrates a selection of works by each featured artist. Images will be uploaded to our website over the coming weeks - please get in touch with us for a preview of works by a particular artist.
NOTES
Please note that listed sizes are framed sizes . All paintings are for sale and may be purchased prior to the exhibition opening.
Red Flowers | Simon Laurie Acrylic on Board | 46 x 41 cm | £850
GORDON MITCHELL RSA RSW RGI
Born in Edinburgh in 1952, Gordon studied at Edinburgh College of Art, embarking upon a career in teaching until becoming a full-time painter in 1989. He is an elected Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour (1997), the Royal Glasgow Institute (1998) and the Royal Scottish Academy (2005). Always thought provoking, Gordon’s work draws upon traditional iconography, news stories and visual puns, to create unexpected juxtapositions and perceptive visual commentaries. Gordon has always had a distaste for the “taken for granted”, and he enjoys looking beyond logic and everyday reasoning. He creates images which are arresting, in part down to the illusion of reality. When the obvious technical process is removed, something puzzling, witty, often irreverent, but always memorable, becomes apparent.
TOP Pot Hole Oil on Canvas | 47 x 57 cm | £3150 LEFT Intermission Oil on Canvas | 94 x 78 cm | £6950 R IGHT 25 And Still Going Oil on Canvas | 109 x 94 cm | £9250
JENNIFER IRVINE RGI RSW
Scottish artist Jennifer Irvine RGI RSW studied at Glasgow School of Art in the mid-seventies before moving into a career in teaching. She began painting full time in 1990 and has since won awards including The David Cargill Award, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Award and The Sir William Gillies Award. Inspired by her trips to France, Spain and Italy, Jennifer has a great interest in depicting the nuances of light and shade. She draws on the way sunlight interacts with its surroundings; considering how it falls on the ornate facade of a building in Provence, and the way it reflects on the sparkling surface of a Venetian waterway. Beginning with a loose, expressive underdrawing, Jennifer uses brushes and palette knives to block in elements of the composition, building up layers of vibrant colour and tone that retain an uncanny realism and palpable sense of place.
LEFT Lourmarin village, Provence Oil on Canvas | 96 x 96 cm | £3500 TOP Backstreet, Alicante Oil on Canvas | 44 x 44 cm | £1200 RIGHT The Orchard, Frontenay-sur-Dive Gouache on Board | 44 x 44 cm | £1200
ANDREW THOMPSON
Andrew Thompson studied painting at Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 1997. He now lives and works on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland. His work can be found in many private collections, including the collection of her Majesty The Queen. Andrew paints a wide range of still life subjects and this latest collection of paintings features his flower and fruit studies, along with a number of exquisitely painted Chinese ceramics and silverware.
LEFT Begonia Oil on Aluminium | 37 x 37 cm| £850 TOP Flambé Vase Oil on Aluminium | 37 x 37 cm| £850 R IGHT Pincushion Flowers Oil on Aluminium | 37 x 37 cm| £850
SIMON LAURIE RSW RGI
Simon Laurie studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1982 to 1988. He was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) in 1991 and the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI) in 2000, where he served as convener for six years. He has had many solo shows, both in the UK and abroad, and has won many prestigious and major awards. Simon’s paintings are characterised by references to Scottish life and society, incorporating fish, boats, religious symbols and everyday items. These objects are arranged upon a rich textural ground created by the application of multiple layers of acrylic paint. He has worked with acrylic paint for almost 30 years, developing his own individual style and fundamental visual language.
TOP Red Lamp and Pear Acrylic on Board | 46 x 44 cm | £900 LEFT Bottle and Fish on Red Acrylic on Board | 46 x 44 cm | £900 R IGHT Carnival Acrylic on Board | 105 x 81 cm | £5200
MORAG MUIR RSW PAI
Scottish Artist Morag Muir PAI RSW was born in Glasgow and studied Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee from 1978-1982. She completed a year of postgraduate study in 1983, winning the John Milne Purvis Prize and the Major Travelling Scholarship, which financed further study in Italy. Morag works from her studio in Newport-on-Tay in Fife, Scotland which has beautiful views across the Firth of Tay. Her paintings mainly reflect the studio environment, and her still- life work incorporates narratives that develop when characters and objects begin to populate the canvas. Windows, flowers, textiles, toys and ethnic bric-a-brac share ambiguous spaces.
TOP The Promise Acrylic on Board | 58 x 58 cm | £1400 LEFT Sunny City Acrylic on Board | 100 x 100 cm | £4500 R IGHT Blue Bird Bouquet Acrylic on Board | 56 x 56 cm | £1400
FRANC I S BOAG
Francis was born in Dundee and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in the late sixties where his tutors included Alberto Morrocco and David McClure. He went on to balance a successful teaching career with his artistic practice before becoming a full time artist in 2001. Since then, Francis has worked steadily to establish himself as one of the leading figures in a new generation of Scottish Colourists. Francis takes a great deal of inspiration from the landscape near his home in Stonehaven. From windswept harbours to patchwork fields, each of his pieces are carefully considered and imbued with an inviting atmosphere, encouraging the viewer to explore every inch of the canvas. Francis prefers to work intuitively without any pre-conceived idea or a specific composition in mind. He works in thin layers of acrylic paint which are built up to create layers of vivid colour, with collaged elements adding texture and an unpredictable quality to his surfaces.
LEFT Atlantic Coast Acrylic on Board | 40 x 50 cm | £2300 TOP Catterline & Todhead Acrylic on Canvas | 85 X 85 cm | £5500 R IGHT Edinburgh Castle Reds Acrylic on Canvas | 60 x 60 cm | £3500
EUAN MCGREGOR PA I
Euan McGregor PAI is a well established Scottish painter. His work has a strong sense of shape and subject. He regularly uses printmaking within his painting. His work is striking, yet subtle in its makeup. Euan has a particular love of fringe or marginal spaces linking land and sea. His work is shown in galleries around the UK. He has many influences including the St Ives school and post war printmaking. Euan has had a number of solo shows in the UK including London, Edinburgh and Cornwall. He has created bodies of work on such varied themes as Outdoor pools and Lidos and Icelandic churches.
Euan has won a number of awards from Art institutions and was made a PAI in 2014. He shows regularly in art fairs and annual exhibitions.
LEFT Crail Acrylic on Board | 86 x 67 cm | £2500 TOP Findochty Piers Acrylic on Board | 63 x 63 cm | £1800 R IGHT Anstruther Acrylic on Board | 78 x 58 cm | £2000
PETER K ING
Glasgow born Peter King studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art before embarking on a career in teaching for over thirty years. He retired in 2010 to focus on painting full time and has since exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Glasgow Institute and Thompson’s Galleries in London. The weathered landscape of The Scottish Borders, Kintyre, The Clyde Valley and the vast panorama of land and sky dominated by Tinto Hill are a constant source of ideas and inspiration for Peter. He has developed his painting style with a broad range of motifs which he constantly returns to and reinterprets, focusing on aspects of changing light and colour. Peter uses the unique qualities of oil paint to capture and accentuate the seasonal effects of nature on the environment. The vibrancy and tactile nature of the medium ensure that his style of textured mark making evokes as much wonder and awe as the landscapes themselves.
TOP Garden Sweetpeas Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £3200 LEFT Yellow Bouquet Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £3200 R IGHT Reflections Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £3200
GEORGINA MCMASTER
Georgina McMaster graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication, specialising in Drawing and Painting. She followed this with a Teacher Training degree. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the David Cargill Award at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) in 2008. Georgina’s striking paintings of animals, birds and insects have real presence, with the character of each creature standing forth against a plain white or linen background. Capturing the character and soul of an animal in their eyes and the softness of the fur or feather on the beast, is what Georgina endeavours to create in her work.
TOP Wee Hoot III Oil on Canvas | 14 x 14 cm | £450 LEFT Wee Hoot III Oil on Canvas | 14 x 14 cm | £450 RIGHT Night Watch Oil on Canvas | 44 x 49 cm | £1150
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