The Scottish Gallery
James Morrison: The North Wind
6 August – 5 September 2015
James Morrison, Summer Isles, 1.v.2013, oil on board 74 x 101 cms, Image courtesy of The Scottish Gallery
James Morrison RSA is whole-heartedly engaged as a landscape painter but sees no constraint in this choice; his work is thematically rich, poetic and lyrical, and for many has added to our understanding of the Scottish landscape. His main working areas are the ancient farmland around his home in Angus, the Mearns of Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and, in complete contrast, the rugged wildness of west coast at Assynt.
This long awaited exhibition represents the culmination of three years work, bringing new subjects and some adaption of his studio practice, including work made directly in front of the landscape.
The exhibition will include a rediscovered picture done in 1963 as an immediate response to the tragic early death of Joan Eardley. Morrison first came to live at Catterline when Joan Eardley had her cottage in the village and he and his wife Dorothy got to know her well.
James Morrison was born in Glasgow in 1932 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1950 to 1954. He joined the staff at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 1965 having moved first to Catterline and then to Montrose. He left teaching to paint full-time in 1987.
Sponsored by Highland Estate.
Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm
Sat 10am-4pm
The Scottish Gallery
Fine Lines
6 August – 5 September 2015
Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley, Black & Gold Bowl, scorched oak with a gilt interior, 24.5 diameter x 12 cms height. Image courtesy of The Scottish Gallery
Miriam Hanid is greatly inspired by the essence of movement in water, believing that water is synonymous with nature and human beings, in all its physical and metaphorical representation. She finds silver the perfect medium through which to express these ideas and through techniques such as embossing, chasing, forming and repoussé she represents the way water works; shaping the landscape and leaving an impression by carving and removing material.
Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley work together designing and making furniture and other functional woodwork, from the domestic to the monumental, with the exception of the vessels which Partridge works on alone. They have always said that their intention is to make "work with a strong but quiet presence in the landscape".
Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. More recently her work has been influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and the possibilities for abstraction in surface which these objects can show as they begin to age.
Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm
Sat, 10am-4pm
The Scottish Gallery
Joan Eardley: In Context
6 August – 5 September 2015
Joan Eardley, Sea at Catterline, c. 1960, oil on board, 71 x 119 cms. Image courtesy of The Scottish Gallery
Joan Eardley’s association with The Scottish Gallery began as long ago as 1955 and we are delighted to bring together an exhibition of her work 60 years on.
The genius of Joan Eardley was well recognised in her own lifetime. She was honoured in 1963 with full membership of the RSA, just a few months before she tragically died of cancer. Eardley, however, was less concerned with her artistic legacy, and more with the next painting she was to create. She was entirely caught up with the drama and tribulation of the process of making art. She had a deep sympathy for her subjects and the wider human condition which fuelled her creativity till her dying day.
Significantly, the exhibition will include several previously unpublished photographs taken by Audrey Walker, the artist’s lover and muse, as well as others by Oscar Mazaroli.
Sponsored by Arbikie Highland Estate.
Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm
Sat, 10am-4pm