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The Creation of a New Language of Colour in European Art

By James Knox, 06.02.2025
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Samuel J Peploe, Luxembourg Gardens, (c1910). The Fleming Collection

The array of Colourist paintings on view at Dovecot offers an unparalleled opportunity to challenge conventions around who, among the avant-garde pack of UK artists inspired by French innovation, should be considered the leading radical painters from 1905 to the outbreak of war in 1914. The Fleming Collections' Curator Emeritus James Knox introduces the exhibition...

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Landscape painting flourishes at the RSW's 144th Open Annual Exhibition

By Susan Mansfield, 04.02.2025
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Anthea Gage PRSW, 'Evanescent'. Image courtesy of the artist.

The Scottish landscape has challenged and inspired painters for centuries, but does it still? In the 144th Open Annual Exhibition of the RSW, which kicked off 2025 in the RSA Upper Galleries, work inspired by landscape - in the broadest sense - is one of the strongest themes.

 

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Planting Seeds for Colstoun Arts

By Neil Cooper, 22.01.2025
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Mackie Sinclair-Parry (left) with Colstoun House's first Resident artist Joe Grieve

Mackie Sinclair-Parry, the driving force behind Colstoun Arts' residency programme, is on a mission to reinvigorate landscape-based art. Neil Cooper travels to East Lothian to find out more...

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Bet Low: An Island On Your Doorstep

20.01.2025

An expansive new exhibition of city scenes, abstracts, and landscape paintings by the Gourock-born painter Bet Low (1924-2007) defies the dictum that an artist must stick to one style. Greg Thomas reviews

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Interview: Everlyn Nicodemus

By Susan Mansfield, 17.01.2025
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Everlyn Nicodemus by Neil Hanna

When the National Galleries of Scotland announced a major retrospective for an Edinburgh-based artist few people had heard of, the question on many people’s lips was: who is Everlyn Nicodemus? In the answer lies a remarkable story: an artist who made work consistently for 40 years with little recognition; a woman working in a care home to pay the bills, keeping her life’s work in storage containers hoping that somehow it might see the light of day. Susan Mansfield meets the artist.

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Benno Schotz – Bronze in His Blood

By Neil Cooper, 12.01.2025
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Benno Schotz with sculpture, courtesy of the RSA

The Royal Scottish Academy's current exhibition celebrates the Estonian artist Benno Schotz, who made Scotland his home and went on to be one of the country's greatest twentieth century sculptors. Neil Cooper meets curator Sandy Wood to find out more about the artist..

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