Contemporary Scottish & European Fine Art
Yanko Tihov is a master printmaker, trained in Sofia, Bulgaria at the National Academy of Art. His training here placed a great emphasis on drawing. He told me they drew for 3 hours every day, from life models, plaster casts . . . everything that would be expected in a classical training for artists. […]
Sarah Longley is an Irish artist based in Scotland. Sarah graduated with First Class Honours in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art and completed her Masters Degree in Fine Art there in 2001. She lived in Edinburgh for many years before relocating to the north-west Highlands of Scotland six years ago. The natural […]
Born in St Andrews, Scotland and currently based near the town, Marion Smith RSA studied sculpture at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. Her practice centres on creating site-specific commissions for the public realm. She has large scale sculptures permanently sited in the United Kingdom from Shetland in the far north to Southampton in the south […]
The gallery was privileged to present the third stage in this touring exhibition of Scotland’s Voices, the most significant composite portrait to be painted in Scotland and Europe since the artist’s Poets’ Pub (1980, National Galleries of Scotland). Poet’s Pub depicted an imaginary gathering of some of Scotland’s most renowned poets of the twentieth century. This […]
LAURENT DESSUPOIU Writing is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, enabling our languages, learning and communication to be recorded for future generations and shared across cultures. Handwriting reveals not only our unique personality, but perhaps also our age, where we’re from, even the onset of some illnesses. In an increasingly digital age, while the handwritten word […]
In the long evenings . . . colour and light presented the work of four sought-after contemporary Scottish and European artists, offering mid-winter experiences of light and colour Belinda Bullen studied as a post-graduate student at the Royal Academy Schools. From her Fife studio, the artist studies the ever-changing light and coastal landscape, which she […]
Maps of the Imagination presented the map-based work of five contemporary Scottish and international artists with connections to Europe: Yanko Tihov, Andrew Wenrick, Elisabeth Lecourt, Mick Manning and Gerry Turley. A range of fine jewellery by designer maker Dominic Walmsley, inspired by Geddy’s mediaeval map of St Andrews (c.1580), as well as the map-themed poetry […]
