Catalogue for 10 person exhibition at Morningside Gallery June 2022
MORNINGSIDE GALLERY
SUMMER EXHIBITION OPENS 25.06.22
SUMMER EXHIBITION OPENS 25.06.22
SIMON LAURIE RSW RGI JOE HARGAN PAI PPAI NAEL HANNA FRANCIS BOAG MARION DRUMMOND PAI MIKE HEALEY MHAIRI MCGREGOR RSW GEORGE BIRRELL ANDREW THOMPSON CHRISTOPHER WOOD RSW
MORNINGSIDE GALLERY
SUMMER EXHIBITION OPENS 25.06.22
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Our Summer Exhibition is a vibrant and diverse exhibition, bringing together an exciting group of ten outstanding contemporary Scottish painters. This is an exhibition that celebrates the many ways in which paintings can be appreciated and approached and we are especially delighted to include a number of abstract paintings from Joe Hargan, Nael Hanna and Christopher Wood. This catalogue only illustrates a selection of works by each featured artist. To view the full collection please visit www.morningsidegallery.co.uk.
We hope you will join us in celebrating the opening of the exhibition on Saturday 25th June . Refreshments will be served at the gallery from 12-5pm . A virtual tour of the exhibition will be also be available on the website.
NOTES
Please note that all the listed sizes are framed sizes.
Simon Laurie Cove No 4 Acrylic on Board | 112 x 101 cm | £4800
GEORGE BIRRELL
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, George Birrell has enjoyed a long career in teaching and now paints full time from his studio in East Lothian. When he was 15 George visited the villages of the East Neuk of Fife and he’s been fascinated by them ever since. These are villages with such a unique character, and one that contrasts strongly with some of the more dramatic and wild subjects of Scottish landscape paintings. George’s paintings are never of specific villages but they pull together the many elements - the architecture, alleyways, harbours and fishing creels - that are quintessentially East Neuk.
LEFT Fishtown Oil on Linen | 56 x 56 cm | £3250 TOP Fish Boxes Oil on Linen | 43 x 43 cm | £2750 RIGHT Blue Flag Oil on Linen | 60 x 60 cm | £3250
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 HRH The Duchess of Rothesay. 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.
TOP Plum Oil on Aluminium | 28 x 28 cm | £750 LEFT Narcissus Oil on Aluminium | 37 x 37 cm | £850 RIGHT Jugs Oil on Aluminium | 37 x 37 cm | £850
MIKE HEALEY
Mike Healey studied under John Cunningham both at school and at Glasgow School of Art, winning the Haldane Drawing Prize and the Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship. In the early 1980s he taught at the School of Art and worked there until 1997. In 2003 Mike was awarded the Chair of Professor of Art and Design at the University of Lincoln. Mike has exhibited extensively in London, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, Bermuda, Japan and in his native Scotland. His rich still lifes and evocative, spontaneous ‘plein air’ paintings of the highlands and islands carry forward a strong Scottish colourist tradition into the present.
LEFT Talwin Morris Studio Chair with Crab and Spring Flowers Oil on Board | 51 x 61 cm | £1950
TOP Tobermory, Mull. Summer Night Colours Oil on Board | 61 x 51 cm | £1950 RIGHT Still Life with Fruit, Flowers and Argyll Lobster Oil on Board | 61 x 51 cm | £2450
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 Top Porter Acrylic on Board | 39 x 41 cm | £800 LEFT Studio Objects Acrylic on Board | 67 x 67 cm | £2400 RIGHT Ancient Forest Acrylic on Board | 112 x 101 cm | £4800
MHAIRI MCGREGOR RSW
Mhairi McGregor studied at Glasgow School of Art , under Barbara Rae and Jimmy Robertson. An avid traveller and winner of numerous travel scholarships as an undergraduate, and professional artist (the GSA, the RSA and the RSW), Mhairi has lived for extended periods in Paris, Florence, Languedoc and New Mexico. Her work was accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London on her first attempt and she continues to be recognised by her peers an exceptional artist. Mhairi is known for her expressive and often abstract flower compositions. Planning the composition and deciding on the colours is the first stage but then it is all about building up the surface. From a few key marks, rose petals and leaves emerge, often bursting out jauntily from pots and vases.
LEFT Hydrangea Oil on Board | 40 x 40 cm | £1750 TOP White Anemones Oil on Board | 40 x 40 cm | £1750 RIGHT Red Flowers Oil on Board | 53 x 40 cm | £1900
JOE HARGAN PAI PPAI
Born in 1952 in Glasgow, Joe Hargan studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1970 – 74. A well recognised and respected figure on the Scottish art scene, Joe was President and Chairman of the Paisley Art Institute from 1989 - 2000 and President of the Glasgow Art Club until 2020. A master of colour and tongue in cheek humour, Joe’s paintings offer humorous and sometimes surreal vignettes of the good life, featuring Sniffy and various other characters within striking gallery and stately home settings. Recurring symbols and metaphors abound within the paintings, and one is often treated to a painting within a painting, an old master within a new master.
TOP Aztec Mixed Media on Board | 129 x 129 cm | £9300
LEFT Papillion Oil on Canvas | 47 x 47 cm | £2000 RIGHT A Good Night In Oil on Canvas | 94 x 94 cm | £6300
FRANCIS 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 Ury House & Green Acrylic on Canvas | 38 x 38 cm | £1800 TOP Autumn view, Ury Acrylic on Canvas | 38 x 38 cm | £1800 RIGHT Ury Panorama Acrylic on Canvas | 38 x 38 cm | £1800
MARION DRUMMOND PAI
Marion Drummond has been working as a professional fine art painter for almost thirty years. Marion’s inimitable style has established her as one of Scotland’s most recognisable and sought after artists and she was recently awarded PAI (Paisley Art Institute). She currently lives and works from her home in Stirlingshire. Taking her inspiration from the folds in petals or fabric to the translucent shimmer of a water filled vase, Marion captures the moment and portrays it with intimacy and warmth. She completely immerses herself in the visceral act of painting, often using rags and her fingers within a dynamic painting process.
TOP Pansies for Thoughts Oil on Board | 51 x 51 cm | £1400 LEFT Little White Jug Oil on Board | 51 x 51 cm | £1400 RIGHT Large White Roses Oil on Board | 97 x 97 cm | £5000
NAEL HANNA
Born in Neneveh, Northern Iraq, Nael Hanna studied Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee after gaining a scholarship to study abroad. It was here that he fell in love with the Scottish landscape and coastline and in particular the drama of the changing weather. Nael has won a number of awards and is exhibited widely throughout the UK and internationally. Nael’s passion for painting is unmistakable; his works are a visceral and immediate response to his subjects, with each painting developing an emotional charge and a rhythm of its own. He prefers to paint outdoors, setting up easel in the fields outside his Angus home and responding to the different colours each season brings. If there’s a wildness to Nael’s work it’s because he’s painting the very sensation of being outside; nature’s momentum sees him being lashed by the wind one moment only to stop and watch the sun break through clouds the next.
TOP After the Storm Mixed Media on Board | 140 x 140 cm | £12000 LEFT Thundery Sky Over Auchmithie Mixed Media on Board | 140 x 140 cm | £12000 RIGHT Clifftop Garden Mixed Media on Board | 140 x 140 cm | £12000
CHRISTOPHER WOOD RSW
Christopher Wood studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art and has been painting and exhibiting professionally since graduating in 1984. He is an elected member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and a past president of the Society of Scottish Artists. Christopher combines oils, acrylic, collage and mixed media to create multi-layered, abstract compositions. His work plays with the line between abstraction and representation; using colour, texture and rhythm in a formal, abstract sense to suggest an experience, a feeling, or a place or weather, whilst leaving enough space for the viewer to enter and engage their own imagination and their own experience
LEFT Rain at Sea Acrylic & Collage on Panel | 51 x 46 cm | £2400 TOP Out of Crystal Water Acrylic & Collage on Panel | 74 x 70cm | £2400 RIGHT Summer’s End Acrylic & Mixed Media on Panel | 54 x 54cm| £1250
MORNINGSIDE GALLERY 94 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, EH10 4BY 0131 447 3041 art@morningsidegallery.co.uk www.morningsidegallery.co.uk
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