Hidden depths: Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks

By Greg Thomas, 19.10.2020

Edwin Morgan (1920 - 2010). Photo by Roddy Simpson. © Courtesy the Edwin Morgan Trust.

The scrapbooks of former Scots Makar Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), assembled between 1931-32 and 1966, offer an engrossing imprint of his mind. Yet they have never been published or fully exhibited. Greg Thomas celebrates Morgan’s great unknown work in his centenary year.

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My Favourite Scottish Work of Art: Caroline Walker

By Caroline Walker, 15.10.2020

Sir James Guthrie, A Hind’s Daughter, 1883, oil on canvas. National Galleries of Scotland. Bequest of Sir James Lewis Caw 1951.

Contemporary Scottish artist Caroline Walker looks back to the paintings that first drew her to art as a young girl exploring the National Galleries of Scotland

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Scottish Art at Frieze London

By Gemma Batchelor, 09.10.2020

Alberta Whittle, Still from RESET, 2020. Photo credit: Matthew Williams.

With the opening of Frieze London's Online Viewing Room, we highlight the works of Scottish artists on display online and across London to mark the event

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Gavin Hamilton and the First Principles of early Italian Art

By Duncan MacMillan, 06.10.2020

Gavin Hamilton, Hector’s Farewell to Andromache, 1774 - 1785. Image courtesy the Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Duncan Macmillan reveals that Scottish neo-classical artist, Gavin Hamilton, was one of the first painters in Europe to return to the ‘first principles’ of early Italian Art, urging fellow artists such as Canova, Runciman and Barry to do the same

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Caroline Walker: Janet

By Susan Mansfield, 02.10.2020

Caroline Walker, Hoovering, First Thing, December, 2020. Photograph Peter Mallet. Courtesy of the Artist and Grimm, Amsterdam | New York.

Caroline Walker discusses Janet, her new exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery as we announce our new acquisition of an oil study by the artist 

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My Favourite Scottish Work of Art: John Byrne

By John Byrne, 01.10.2020

Sir Henry Raeburn, Reverend Robert Walker (1755-1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch, c. 1795. National Galleries of Scotland.

John Byrne on why his favourite Scottish painting is the much loved The Skating Minister, otherwise known as Reverend Robert Walker (1755-1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch by Sir Henry Raeburn. 

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