WINTER EXHIBITION

WINTER EXHIBITION

MORNINGSIDE GALLERY

WINTER EXHIBITION OPENS 20.11.21

WINTER EXHIBITION OPENS 20.11.21

SIMON LAURIE RSW RGI JOE HARGAN PAI PPAI PETER KING MARION DRUMMOND PAI ROBERT KELSEY PAI FRSA JENNIFER IRVINE RGI RSW GEORGE BIRRELL ANDREW THOMPSON

MORNINGSIDE GALLERY

WINTER EXHIBITION OPENS 20.11.21

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Our Winter Exhibition is a vibrant and diverse exhibition, bringing together eight outstanding contemporary Scottish painters. The exhibition features between six and twelve paintings from each artist, including twelve showstoppers from gallery regular Joe Hargan, and seven fantastic new works from new gallery artist Simon Laurie.

PRIVATE VIEW

We hope you will join us for the Private View in the Gallery on Friday 19th of November, from 5.30pm - 8.30pm. For attendance information please call the gallery or visit www.morningsidegallery.co.uk/winter-exhibition-opening

A virtual Private View will also open at the same time, featuring a 3D tour of the exhibition, and a link will be sent out via our regular mailing list email.

NOTES

Please note that listed sizes are framed sizes. All paintings are for sale and may be purchased or reserved prior to the exhibition opening. We kindly request that decisions on reserves are made by 12 noon on Friday the 19th of November. Sold paintings may be picked up or delivered from Monday the 29th of November.

Peter King Winter Light Tinto Hill Oil on Canvas | 75 x 75 cm | £1800

SIMON LAURIE RSW RGI

Simon Laurie studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1982 to 1988. He was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) in 1991 and the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI) in 2000, where he served as convener for six years. He has had many solo shows, both in the UK and abroad, and has won many prestigious and major awards. Simon’s paintings are characterised by references to Scottish life and society, incorporating fish, boats, religious symbols and everyday items. These objects are arranged upon a rich textural ground created by the application of multiple layers of acrylic paint. He has worked with acrylic paint for almost 30 years, developing his own individual style and fundamental visual language.

TOP Porter No 2 Acrylic on Board | 40 x 45 cm | £800 LEFT Fresh Fish and Wine Acrylic on Board | 45 x 40 cm | £800 RIGHT Hedgerow Acrylic on Board | 115 x 105 cm | £4800

LEFT Winter Red Acrylic on Board | 115 x 105 cm | £4800 RIGHT Oil and Greens Acrylic on Board | 45 x 40 cm | £800 BELOW Porter No 1 Acrylic on Board | 40 x 45 cm | £800

LEFT Cornfield and Trees Acrylic on Board | 115 x 105 cm | £4800

PETER KING

Peter King studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art before embarking on a career in teaching for over thirty years. He has painted full time since 2010, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Glasgow Institute and Thompson’s Galleries in London. Peter uses the tactile qualities and vivid colours of oil paint to its full potential in his bold and minimal stylised landscapes. With buttery textures and broad sweeps of colour he creates striking hills, lochs and coastlines.

LEFT Ben Ledi, Autumn Oil on Canvas | 65 x 65 cm | £1000 TOP Autumn Fields Oil on Canvas | 65 x 65 cm | £1000 RIGHT Goatfell Reflections Oil on Canvas | 65 x 65 cm | £1000

LEFT Winter Light, Goatfell Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £2800 ABOVE Autumn On The Tay Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £2800 RIGHT Autumn Light Arran Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £2800

LEFT Winter Reflection Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £2800

JOE HARGAN PAI PPAI

Born in 1952 in Glasgow, Joe Hargan studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1970 – 74. A well recognised and respected figure on the Scottish art scene, Joe was President and Chairman of the Paisley Art Institute from 1989 - 2000 and President of the Glasgow Art Club until 2020. A master of colour and tongue in cheek humour, Joe’s paintings offer humorous and sometimes surreal vignettes of the good life, featuring Sniffy and various other characters within striking gallery and stately home settings. Recurring symbols and metaphors abound within the paintings, and one is often treated to a painting within a painting, an old master within a new master.

TOP The Sleeper Oil on Canvas | 93 x 93 cm | £6300 LEFT A Little Rosey Oil on Canvas | 73 x 73 cm | £4200 RIGHT Still Life Oil on Canvas | 73 x 73 cm | £4200

LEFT Horse Play Oil on Canvas | 127 x 127 cm | £9300 RIGHT Who Dunnit Oil on Canvas | 73 x 73 cm | £4200 BELOW The Awakening Oil on Canvas | 73 x 73 cm | £4200

LEFT Training Session Oil on Canvas | 73 x 73 cm | £4200 CENTRE Titi Oil on Canvas | 30 x 40 cm | £900 RIGHT 40 Winks Oil on Canvas | 93 x 93 cm | £6300

FAR LEFT Helen Oil on Canvas | 40 x 40 cm | £1250 LEFT Marie Louise Oil on Canvas | 46 x 46 cm | £1250 RIGHT Maria Oil on Canvas | 40 x 40 cm | £1250

ROBERT KELSEY PAI FRSA

Robert Kelsey studied fine art at Glasgow School of Art, where his tutors included David Donaldson, Alexander Goudie and James Robertson. He then pursued a career in teaching art until 1995, when he decided to concentrate full time on painting from his home and studio near Glasgow. With over twenty London solo shows under his belt, Robert has established an enviable following and reputation for his light filled and atmospheric oil paintings, and especially for his beach subjects. Favouring quiet and remote beaches in the Hebrides and West Coast of Scotland, Robert paints with sensitivity to interpret a sense of place through the power of light and colour.

LEFT Fresh Wind, Iona Oil on Linen | 108 x 94 cm | £5150 TOP Beach Reflections, Arisaig Oil on Linen | 82 x 72 cm | £3850 RIGHT Blue Seascape Oil on Linen | 82 x 60 cm | £3450

TOP Isle of Arran and Driftwood Oil on Linen | 79 x 49 cm | £2950 RIGHT Cloud over Ben More Oil on Linen | 93 x 83 cm | £4250

LEFT North End, Iona Oil on Linen | 108 x 93 cm| £5150

GEORGE BIRRELL

A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, George Birrell has enjoyed a long career in teaching and now paints full time from his studio in East Lothian. When he was 15 George visited the villages of the East Neuk of Fife and he’s been fascinated by them ever since. These are villages with such a unique character, and one that contrasts strongly with some of the more dramatic and wild subjects of Scottish landscape paintings. George’s paintings are never of specific villages but they pull together the many elements - the architecture, alleyways, harbours and fishing creels - that are quintessentially East Neuk.

RIGHT Harbour Bric-a-Brac Oil on Linen | 50 x 50 cm | £2750 BELOW Pier and Boats Oil on Linen | 59 x 59 cm | £3250 LEFT Distant Yacht Oil on Linen | 100 x 69 cm | £4500

TOP Mill and Church Oil on Linen | 50 x 50 cm | £2750 LEFT Millpond Oil on Linen | 69 x 69 cm | £3750 RIGHT Ropes, Nets and Leaping Fish Oil on Linen | 60 x 60 cm | £3250

ANDREW THOMPSON

Andrew Thompson studied painting at Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 1997. He now lives and works on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland. His work can be found in many private collections, including the collection of HRH The Duchess of Rothesay. Andrew paints a wide range of still life subjects and this latest collection of paintings features stripped back compositional depictions examining the texture and form of Chinese ceramics, their glazes and decoration.

RIGHT Late Ming/Early Qing (chip on the lip) Oil on Aluminium | 42 x 42 cm | £800 TOP Double Happiness Oil on Aluminium | 42 x 42 cm | £800 LEFT Jun Ware Bottle Vase Oil on Aluminium | 42 x 42 cm | £800

LEFT Qing Boat Scene Oil on Aluminium | 42 x 42 cm | £800 RIGHT Shiwan Ware Jar Oil on Aluminium | 42 x 42 cm | £800

JENNIFER IRVINE RGI RSW

Jennifer Irvine studied at Glasgow School of Art in the mid-seventies before moving into a career in teaching. She began painting full time in 1990 and has since won awards including The David Cargill Award, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Award and The Sir William Gillies Award. Inspired by her trips to France, Spain and Italy, Jennifer has a great interest in depicting the nuances of light and shade. She draws on the way sunlight interacts with its surroundings, considering how it falls on the ornate facade of a building in Provence, and the way it reflects on the sparkling surface of a Venetian waterway.

LEFT The Garden, Giverny Oil on Board | 132 x 101 cm | £4000 TOP Vaison la Romaine Oil on Canvas | 46 x 46 cm | £1000 RIGHT Venetian Moorings Oil on Canvas | 70 x 70 cm | £1500

LEFT Corner of the Garden, Giverny Oil on Board | 36 x 36 cm | £700 CENTRE Yellow Facade, Venice Oil on Board | 36 x 36 cm | £700 RIGHT The Wedding Villa, The Algarve Oil on Canvas | 95 x 95 cm | £3500

LEFT Venetian Pinks Oil on Canvas | 90 x 70 cm | £2000 RIGHT Summer Garden, Frontenay Oil on Canvas | 46 x 46 cm | £1000 BELOW Lourmarin, Provence Oil on Canvas | 46 x 46 cm | £1000

LEFT Corner of the Garden, Giverny Oil on Canvas | 91 x 91 cm | £2750

MARION DRUMMOND PAI

Marion Drummond has been working as a professional fine art painter for almost thirty years. Marion’s inimitable style has established her as one of Scotland’s most recognisable and sought after artists and she was recently awarded PAI (Paisley Art Institute). She currently lives and works from her home in Stirlingshire. Taking her inspiration from the folds in petals or fabric to the translucent shimmer of a water filled vase, Marion captures the moment and portrays it with intimacy and warmth. She completely immerses herself in the visceral act of painting, often using rags and her fingers within a dynamic painting process.

TOP Wistful Lucy Oil on Board | 43 x 48 cm | £1150 LEFT My Roses Oil on Board | 51 x 51 cm | £1400 RIGHT White Roses Oil on Board | 82 x 67 cm | £3000

LEFT Starry Eyed Oil on Board | 112 x 79 cm | £5000 RIGHT Lucy Oil on Board | 51 x 51 cm | £1400 BELOW Lucy Going Out Tonight Oil on Board | 51 x 51 cm | £1400

LEFT Last of the Roses Oil on Board | 51 x 51 cm | £1400 BELOW Time for Tea Oil on Board | 51 x 51 cm | £1400 RIGHT Blousy Rhoddies Oil on Board | 82 x 67 cm | £3000

Sunflowers with Slate Oil on Board | 112 x 79 cm | £5000

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