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million William Syson Foundation endowment to support the
Scottish arts sector. For information on new funding see ARTS NEWS.
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A Summer to Remember at the Whitehouse Gallery in Kikcudbright (until Sep 5) is a mixed group exhibition of new work by Tricia Barna, Fiona Brown, Lizzie Farey, Jackie Henderson, Robert Pereira Hind, Morag Lloyds, Fiona Millar, Kevan McGinty, Anne Skinner and Karen Stamper (pictured: Evening Catch). There will also be a new collection of driftwood figures by Lynn Muir, glass by Amanda Simmons and Debbie Lord and ceramic sculpture by Pratima Kramer as well as new and exclusive online collections by Susan Cairns and Dominique Cameron. www.whitehousegallery.co.uk >>>
White Fox Gallery in Coldstream reopens on July 11 with extended hours. To ensure a safe number of viewers in the gallery at any one time on reopening day, the gallery asks that visitors book an hourly slot on the website. During lockdown the gallery has been asking artists and makers to produce small works to be priced at no more than £150. These will now be shown in a one-week selling exhibition to mark the reopening. The gallery is also offering a £5 voucher towards a minimum purchase price of £50 for a single artwork. www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk
As with other art colleges, the Gray’s School of Art Degree Show is online this year (Jul 10-19). As a result of a partnership between Robert Gordon University, the art promoter Look Again and the digital agency Design and Code, the 2020 graduates in Painting, Contemporary Art Practice, 3D Design, Communication Design, Fashion & Textiles and Photography will be showcased in individual, virtual exhibition spaces. Not having access to studios and workshops to make
Like many non-profit organisations in the tourism and hospitality sectors, Glasgow’s Mackintosh at the Willow, the last surviving example of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s tea room designs, has been heavily hit by the Coronavirus lockdown and, having only recently reopened after a painstaking restoration required to save this historical landmark, is now facing the doors being closed again – this time for good. They are therefore asking the public for help to raise enough money to reopen and prevent the tearooms from falling back into disrepair. If you would like to help ensure that this unique heritage building is not tragically lost for posterity, please pledge your donation at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-save-mackintosh-at-the-willow.
their final works, students have been forced to create them at home. Says Sally Reaper of Look Again: “An online degree show is not a compromise and is just as ambitious as the physical one would have been. It’s a new rite of passage to a global audience, something that many graduating students would not have considered at this stage in their career.” Pictured: Work by Contemporary Art Practice graduate Shae Myles www.graysdegree.show
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Michael G. Clark PAI: Paintings from France and Venice at the Roger Billcliffe Gallery in Glasgow is an online exhibition revealing the artist’s gift for capturing the subtle colours of Provence and “La Serenissima”. His lilac shadows, burnt umber and dusky pink evoke the hazy glow of summer evenings, while a flash of ochre or an untainted cyan sky capture the hot sun. You can almost smell the delights of the market, feel the restorative kiss of the sun or taste the chilled wine. Pictured above: The winning boule, oil on linen www.billcliffegallery.com
Compass Gallery in Glasgow has revived its Adrian Wiszniewski solo exhibition Prudence Perched in Paris, which was prematurely closed in March. The new body of paintings and works on paper created features charming figurative subjects paired down to focus on the characters and their story. In a change from his more vivid colours, Wiszniewski paints here in delicate, softer shades. Likewise, his characteristic thick outlines have become more delicate. There are also several new paintings in stark, graphic black and white. All works are for sale and can be viewed by appointment. Pictured left: Prudence Perched in Paris at L’Orangerie, oil & acrylic on canvas www.compassgallery.co.uk
The Butterworth Gallery in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire is now accepting appointments from Thursday to Sunday in half-hour time-slots for up to four members of the same family or ‘bubble’. Customers who need a
Forced to postpone the world premiere of John Byrne’s new work, Underwood Lane, until 2021, the Tron Theatre has switched focus to fundraising initiatives to support the return of live performance at the venue. A companion piece to Byrne’s The Slab Boys, inspired by the Paisley of his youth, Underwood Lane tells the tale of a young skiffle band trying to make it. It was written in memory of Byrne’s Paisley friend, the singer/songwriter Gerry Rafferty, who was born and brought up on the street in the play’s title. Until July 17 Byrne fans can buy a limited edition print of the Underwood Lane poster (pictured right). Only 100 copies are available in this one time only offer. Proceeds will help to support the Tron through a very challenging time. Everyone who buys a print will be entered into a prize draw to win two tickets to the Underwood Lane press night in 2021 along with complimentary drinks and a goodie bag including a copy of the Underwood Lane script signed by John Byrne and the Tron’s Artistic Director Andy Arnold. www.tron.co.uk/shop
little more browsing time can take two slots. Outwith appointments the gallery will be operating a ‘one-in/one-out’ system for one set of visitors of up four people. To avoid any waiting you can use the free online booking system. The gallery has released a new set of signed, limited edition prints of 75 copies each by Howard Butterworth to mark his 75th birthday. Pictured below: Springtime www.thebutterworthgallery.com >>>
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Lemond Gallery in Bearsden is inviting appointments to view its Big Summer Show 2020, featuring over 600 new paintings by a hundred Scottish contemporary artists (Jul 11-19). Lemond is a large, home-based gallery with seven rooms of art space. All personal safety measures will be observed. Pictured above: Michael Forbes, Plastic Not Fantastic, oil on canvas www.lemondgallery.com
The Uist Arts Association summer exhibition is now online (until Aug 8), including an e-shop selling participants’ work. The organisation hopes to soon reopen the venue at Taigh Chjearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre in Lochmaddy, North Uist. Pictured right: Yasmin Davidson, Red Scape, mixed media on paper www.uistarts.org/uaa-summer-open-exhibition-2020
New funding is available for the Scottish arts sector from the William Syson Foundation. The Foundation has brought forward its opening date from September to July in recognition of the exceptional difficulties arts bodies are facing due to Coronavirus. Non-profit organisations are invited to apply for help with running costs and capital funding, while individuals can apply for support with fees for short courses and teaching aids for arts projects in schools and the community.
Organisations based in Scotland and active in the visual and performing arts, literature and heritage sector may apply, and projects taking place in Scotland but arranged by groups based elsewhere in the UK are also eligible. The Foundation was established in 2012 by William Syson, an Edinburgh banker and life-long supporter of the arts. He died in May 2019, leaving £13 million to the Foundation. www.williamsysonfoundation.org.uk >>>
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As museums and major galleries reopen in England and around Europe, details are beginning to emerge of what visitors can expect post-Coronavirus. Measures include: time-slots bookable in advance; limited numbers in the buildings at one time; one-way routes through the rooms; the required social distance between visitors outwith a ‘bubble’; in the cafes, plastic-coated menus which can be wiped down (or a takeaway service only, if a venue has a separate space, such as a garden or courtyard, where visitors can enjoy a snack). Silver lining: Greatly reduced numbers will result in a better viewing experience.
Jupiter Artland, the sculpture park on the outskirts of Edinburgh, is now open to local members and the local public via pre-booked time-slots, with a limit on the number of visitors on-site at any one time. There is also an outdoor art collection and a new outdoor exhibition dedicated to the American conceptual artist Allan Kaprow. Pictured: Marc Quinn, Love Bomb, 2006, Photo: Brian Fischbacher www.jupiterartland.org
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Tom Foottit has combined his training in Fine Art Painting, Cabinetry and Furniture Making to make this Sturgeon Cabinet, which is finished with hand-cut marquetry, dyed and veneered, with a carved exterior. He will make you anything from shelving to a larch-clad garden room. www.tomfoottitdesign.com
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the Adrien Dubouché National Museum has about 12,000 pieces from all over the world and different periods. Visitors can also learn about porcelain production from raw materials to finished product in a guided tour of a factory, two of the oldest of which are Haviland and Barnardaud. The Casseaux Porcelain Kiln Museum can also be visited.
EnamelDating back to ancient Egypt and Greco-Roman antiquity, the region’s other famous material, enamel, is used to decorate objects in amazingly intricate detail. A mixture of lead oxide, sand, sodium and potash is fired at high temperatures to produce a thick, liquefied material with a vitrified appearance which is overlaid onto a metal plate – usually copper, but also gold and silver. Originally, objects were mainly religious in nature, such as reliquaries to hold sacred items or covers for religious books. Output later expanded into objects such as vessels, candlesticks, mirror backs and jewellery.
Limoges Cathedral has a magnificent black Madonna and Child in enamel, which featured on three metre-high posters to advertise an exhibition on Romanesque France at the Louvre in Paris. There are also exhibitions at the ‘Maison de l’Émail’ (Enamel House), where visitors can watch craftmakers at work. Housed in the former Bishop’s Palace, the Museum of Fine Arts has some 500 enamel pieces ranging from the Renaissance to Art Deco. The museum also has some fine examples of Limoges stained glass, notably by Francis Chigot, whose work graces the railway station and is admired as far away as Montreal Cathedral. The museum’s paintings collection includes work by Suzanne Valadon, (the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts), Suzanne Lalique-Haviland (daughter of the famous crystal and glass maker and wife of the porcelain manufacturer), Limoges-born Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. Nearby you will also find an arts and crafts centre (‘Cité des Métiers et des
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THE CROZANT SCHOOLAbout 85 kilometres north of Limoges is the village of Crozant, which gave its name to the movement coined for the ‘paysagistes’ (landscape painters) who began to flock to the area in the mid-1800s. Becoming known as the ‘Crozant School’, this large, loose group of artists was breaking away from the Neo-Classical and Romantic traditions and abandoning the dramatic, mythological themes of the time to take their inspiration from nature. Leaving their studios, these artists jumped on the growing railway network and, using the newly invented tube paints which enabled them to paint ‘en plein air’, set up their easels in picturesque spots around France, including the valleys of the Creuse and Sédelle rivers, which became favourites with the burgeoning Impressionists. Among them was Claude Monet, who spent the spring of 1889 there, often starting the same scene several times as the atmosphere changed during the day. Thus the >>>
Deep in rural France, or ‘la France profonde’, Limousin saw the birth of a painting movement, is the European centre of a centuries-old craft, has a contemporary art centre on an island and still celebrates its “arts du feu”.
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31-metre high dome, clock tower twice the height and a concourse lined with neo-classical sculptures and Art Deco stained glass windows. But it is for its “arts du feu”, or “fire arts”, that Limoges is best known – porcelain, enamel and stained glass, all dependent on fire for their creation.
PorcelainCentral to the success of the Limoges porcelain trade was the discovery nearby in 1768 of kaolin, a fine, white clay long known to the Chinese. Thanks to this “white gold”, known for its translucence and delicacy, today Limoges factories produce about half of all porcelain made in France. Collectors of Limoges porcelain
look for a factory mark and a date of manufacture between the late 1700s and around 1930, when decoration became less elaborate to appeal to more modern tastes, as seen in designs by artists such as Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Raoul Dufy. Similarly, some manufacturers switched to tableware for everyday use rather than traditional, decorative items. Valued for their timeless elegance, porcelain sets are found on the tables of monarchs and heads of state. Many pieces have become heirlooms passed down from generation to generation and premium prices are paid for quality, hand-painted objects signed or marked by the artist. In its beautiful Art Deco building
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concept of a series was born. There are some two dozen known works by Monet from this period now in museums around the world. Today there are riverside “painters’ trails” past converted watermills (a favourite subject of the painters) and interpretation boards showing scenes at the very spots where they were painted. Just outside Crozant is “Monet’s site”, a high vantage point overlooking the ruins of a huge citadel at the confluence of the Petite Creuse and Grande Creuse rivers. A path dubbed In the Footsteps of Monet leads to the spot.
AUBUSSON AND FELLETINWith an abundant supply of wool and pure water for dyeing, tapestry weaving has been a mainstay in the region since the Middle Ages, when the craft warmed the stone walls of castles and cathedrals. Today the ‘twin towns’ of Aubusson and Felletin are world famous tapestry centres. Between them they form the largest area of private tapestry production in Europe and their ‘savoir faire’ is a recognised UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The “woven art” assumed a more modern look thanks to designs by artists such as Calder, Vasalery, Picasso, Leger, Braque and Dufy. Today young designers are encouraged to bring a fresh eye to the craft and as a result, tapestries have
sported imagery and symbolism ranging from Bugs Bunny, Pacman and video games to tragedy masks, Mayan civilisation and Alice in Wonderland. In Aubusson, the Tapestry Museum exhibits nearly 600 years of tapestry, while in Felletin, where a weaver was
first mentioned in 1457, the Église du Chateau (Castle Church) has been turned into a tapestry gallery. This is one of the last places where you can see tapestries displayed against granite. The largest tapestry in the world (250 square metres, in England’s Coventry Cathedral) was made in Felletin, which has also produced works for the National Gallery of Ireland and Sydney Opera House. Souvenir tip: Specialty shops sell sections of various sizes cut from ‘cartoons’, the full size paintings of intended tapestries which act as patterns for the weavers. www.cite-tapisserie.fr
LAKE VASSIVIEREAbout 55 kilometres east of Limoges is the Lac de Vassivière. The third largest lake in France, it was created as a reservoir with the completion >>>
Monet was here. House number on the former inn in the village of Fresselines, where the artist stayed in 1889
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of two dams in 1950, flooding the landscape and engulfing eight villages. With its beautiful setting and bountiful water sports it is Limousin’s number one visitor attraction. Of interest to art-lovers is the island in the middle. Reached by a little motorised tourist train across a man-made causeway or by water taxi, it was once the top of a hill overlooking a vast estate owned by the Vassivière family, whose stately home still stands on the original site. Today the island is home to the International Centre of Art and Landscape. Opened in 1991, it was designed by the Italian architect Aldo Rossi, who created a long, white, tunnel-shaped building symbolising the horizontality of the lake with a timber-beamed roof like an upturned boat and windows resembling Roman aqueduct arches to echo the watery surroundings. Continuing the nautical theme, an adjacent lighthouse-like building symbolises the verticality of the island’s trees. Climbed by an interior spiral staircase, it offers magnificent views of the island and lake.
The Centre hosts changing exhibitions, especially of conceptual works and installations created through its artists in residence programme and inspired by the surrounding area. Visitors can take self-guided walks to view over 60 pieces of site-specific sculpture dotted around the island (70 hectares, or over 170 football fields, in
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It’s the most famous painting in the world. Thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo – hence its Italian
title La Gioconda – Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (‘Mona’ in Italian being a polite form of address similar to ‘Ma’am’) is visited by six million people every year in the Louvre. Some even get close enough to see her. (Tip: Now would be a good time to try, with the Louvre’s Coronavirus measures limiting visitor numbers, enabling a closer view of the painting than has been possible for years.) Until the 20th century the Mona Lisa was simply one among many highly regarded works by Da Vinci. So why is she now so famous? First, as with any popular artwork, there’s the ‘back story’. >>>
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When Leonardo died in 1519, 16 years after the painting was commissioned, it was still in his possession, probably because he had been distracted by his many other projects. Inherited by an assistant and sold when he died to King Francis I of France (Da Vinci died there and Francis was a patron), it entered the French royal collection. From there it passed through the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles and Napoleon’s bedroom in the Tuileries Palace before entering the Louvre. But it was in 1911 that the painting really entered the public’s consciousness when its theft – by an Italian-born museum employee who wanted to repatriate it to Da Vinci’s native Italy – was reported worldwide. Subsequent attacks on it
Claimed to have been reproduced in 300 paintings and
2,000 advertisements, the Mona Lisa has been created using: 3,000 cups of coffee, 10,000 jelly beans, 5,000 Lego bricks, 100,000 gemstones, 315 Rubik’s cubes and 6,000 pieces of toast.
by various disgruntled viewers – by acid, a rock, red paint and a ceramic teacup (purchased in the Louvre shop) – further enhanced the painting’s reputation. So why is the Mona Lisa so famous, when to most observers it seems no different from countless other Renaissance portraits? For one thing, Leonardo created it using a hitherto unknown technique called ‘sfumato’ (from the Italian ‘sfumare’, meaning literally to evaporate like smoke), using different tones and shades of paint to create an illusion of light and shadow. Another reason is the mysterious smile. Is she happy or sad? Is she even smiling at all? And then there’s the look. And what a look. The only one of Leonardo’s portraits in which the subject looks directly out of the
canvas, her eyes appear to follow the viewer from every angle. The eyes have it.
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June Carey RSW RGI PAI is a multiple award-winning artist whose work
has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the UK and
abroad. Her work is in many public and private collections, including the Royal
Bank of Scotland, Oxford University, BBC Television, Highland Region and
Dundee District Council.
‘Forbiden Love’, gouache &
acrylic
Evocative landscapes by Simon Rivett from his recent Borderlands
series of the Scottish Borders in which he captures the graphic rhythms of the fields and walls,
using colour and shape to create works which are full of harmony,
playfulness and joy.
‘Winter Borders Two’, watercolour on paper
Intimate figurative paintings by Kevin Low from his Women and Men series. For several
years a photographer of stage performances, Kevin’s
understanding of lighting, drama and the precisely chosen moment
have resulted in a resonant collection of images.
‘Lilac Skirt’, oil on panel
‘Sweet Thoughts of You’,
gouache
‘The Night Pool’, acrylic & mixed media on panel
‘Pink Dress’, oil on panel
‘Pink Shorts’, oil on panel
‘Winter Borders Three’, watercolour on paper
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‘Winter Borders One’, watercolour on paper
ANN ARMSTRONGANN ARMSTRONGScottish Landscape ArtistScottish Landscape Artist
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KATE HENDERSONKATE HENDERSONPainting • Glass • TeachingPainting • Glass • Teachingwww.katehenderson.co.ukwww.katehenderson.co.uk
SENJA BRENDONSENJA BRENDONSaltwater Studio, ArranSaltwater Studio, Arran
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IAN MCKINNELLIAN MCKINNELLAbstract PhotographyAbstract Photography
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GERRIE SOMERVILLEGERRIE SOMERVILLEMixed Media ArtistMixed Media Artist
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LIZ MYHILLLIZ MYHILLPainter & PrintmakerPainter & Printmakerwww.lizmyhill.comwww.lizmyhill.com
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