Scottish Paintings
Medici Gallery
Rory McLauchlan ‘Still Life with Tangine and Fruits’ oil on board
Front: Christopher Wood ‘Edge of the Sea’ oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm Back: Anna King ‘Misty Forest III’ oil and pencil on paper, laid on board 21 x 26 cm
Scottish Paintings An exhibition of paintings and works on paper by eight contemporary Scottish artists
9 September – 2 October 2014
Medici Gallery requests the pleasure of your company at the Private View 6.00 – 8.00pm, Tuesday 9 September
Medici Gallery
5 Cork Street, London W1S 3LQ
020 7495 2565 info@medicigallery.co.uk www.medicigallery.co.uk
Christopher Wood SSA
PAI RSW
Christopher trained at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with an Honours degree in Drawing & Painting in 1984. He has been a full-time professional artist since his first one-man exhibition in Edinburgh 1987. His activities include: President of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) (2009 - 2011) Vice-President of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) (2006-2009) Board Member of the Exhibiting Societies of Scotland (ESSA) (2006-2011) An elected member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) (2006) Elected to serve on the Council of the SSA (2004 - 2011) A Professional Member of The Glasgow Art Club (2005) An Elected Member of The Paisley Art Institute (PAI) (2005) An Elected Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) (2004) An Elected Professional Member of the Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) (1993) Awards: The Sir William Gillies Award (RSW 2009) The Glasgow Art Club Fellowship (RSW 2005) The Armour Award (RGI 1994) The James Torrance Memorial Award (RGI 1993) He has been elected to serve on the Selection Committee and or Hanging & Arranging Committees of most of the SSA Annual Exhibitions held in the Royal Scottish Academy over the last ten years. Collections include: HRH Prince Charles the Duke of Rothesay; the Bank of Scotland; Aberdeen Asset Management; United Distillers; Edinburgh University; Lennox Lewis;The Demarco European Foundation; MacRoberts Solicitors; Premier Property Group; Phoenix Equity Partners and many other private and corporate collections around the world.
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‘Tilted Sea’ acrylic & collage on card 122 x 91 cm
‘Last Step’ acrylic & collage on panel 13 x 15 cm
‘Here on the Rock with Us’ acrylic & collage on panel 32 x 27 cm
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Rory McLauchlan “I am trying to capture the essence and character of a particular place through the spontaneous use of colour, line and shape to create new forms.” Scottish artist Rory McLauchlan, lives and works in Ayrshire. His connection to western Scotland inspires the majority of his subject matter. Chiefly he takes his inspiration from the Ayrshire landscape, where he portrays the wildness of his surroundings. His Still Life paintings too have a brilliant understanding of colour and form, whilst retaining a naive quality. Graphic Design Diploma Cardonald College, Glasgow, 1980 BA (Hons) Fine Art, St Martin’s School of Art, London, 1982 – 1985 Selected Exhibitions: Medici Gallery, London Royal Glasgow Institute The Mitchell Library, Glasgow RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow Paisley Art Institute Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh Selected Competitions: Aspect Prize, Paisley Paisley Art Institute Drawing Competition
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‘Vivaldi Tulips No1’ oil on board
Ryan Mutter Ryan has built up a formidable reputation as a powerful contemporary painter of Industrial and Maritime subjects. His bold realism combined with expressionistic brushwork, transports you into a world of arresting detail and mechanised splendour. Born in 1978, he studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where he graduated in 2001. He has now won many distinguished awards, including four from the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts. His inspiration comes from Britain’s industrial heritage and its connection between man and the sea. In Glasgow alone shipbuilding provided work for 70,000 men in more than 50 yards spread along 11 miles of quayside. But today these yards sit empty, a shadow of their former self.The advancements made in technology and design methods superseded the old, and made once important skills and craftsmanship redundant.This is what drives Ryan as he looks to capture and remind people of how important this work force was in the development of the modern world. “There will be kids growing up near the Clyde who – if you didn’t tell them about the shipbuilding – probably wouldn’t know what used to be there,” says Ryan. “That’s one of the things that drives me.” From Ryan Mutter’s Profile in The Herald Scotland Selected Exhibitions and Awards 2014 Medici Gallery, London 2013 Eton Contemporary: Caledonian Show Chelsea Art Fair, 20/21 London Bristol Art Fair Affordable art fair (Hampstead) Blackheath Gallery mixed spring show Gallery Heinzel Aberdeen mixed summer show Red Rag Gallery mixed summer show Arteries Gallery mixed summer show Aspect Prize, Paisley, 2010 Winner – City of Glasgow Award, RGI 148th Annual Exhibition Aspect Prize, Paisley 1st place award – East Ayrshire open art competition
‘The Builders of Giants’ oil on board 90 x 61 cm
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Neil Macdonald PAI
RGI RSW
“I am drawn to locations which exert historic and mythic presence. I explore the lyrical narrative of natural sites and strong bold shapes of castles, old townships and harbours. I do this through distortion of perspective, invention and editing, aiming to capture an essence of the structure or place. Colour is used in an emotive way to heighten the sense of mood. I apply each layer upon layer of paint in a divisionist manner. Slowly I realise a unity of statement as the image emerges, revealing the subject’s unique sense of place.” 1975-1979 Glasgow School of Art-BA Hons 1979-1980 Glasgow School of Art- Post Graduate Studies
Awards 2013 Elected RSW (Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour) Joe Hargan Award, Maclaurin Fine Art Exhibition, Ayr Elected RGI (Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts) 2012 The Smithy Gallery Award (PAI) Diploma of the Paisley Art Institute 2011 Robert Innes Award - Scottish Drawing Competition 2009 Discerning Eye,London- Scottish Regional Winner Charles Jamieson Award PAI 2008 University West Scotland Award PAI 2006 EDC Ann Stevenson Memorial Award 2005 EDC Purchase Prize
Exhibitions 2014 Scottish Paintings, Medici Gallery, London 2011 Solo Exhibition, Mansfield Park Gallery Two Person Show with Alice McMurrough, Auld Kirk Museum 2010 Glasgow Art Fair, Mansfield Park Gallery 2009 Two Person Show with Alice McMurrough, Kelly Gallery 2007 ‘Seven’- Kelly Gallery, Glasgow 2004 ‘Five’- Kelly Gallery, Glasgow 2002 ‘Seven’- Kelly Gallery, Glasgow 1999 Vallico in Arte Exhibition,Tuscany
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‘Staffa’ watercolour 70 x 50 cm
‘Reverie, Malta’ oil on canvas 97 x 71 cm
‘The North Carr Lighthouse visits Dunbar’ watercolour 70 x 50 cm
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David Smith RSW Born in 1957, David Smith is a Scottish contemporary landscape artist.The palette and inspiration for his work is taken from the seaboard and landscape of Scotland. Although predominantly a self-taught artist, he has studied at various colleges including the Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow College of Building and Printing, Glasgow School of Art and Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. A past member and president of the Glasgow Group of Artists, he was elected member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 2011. He was elected member of RSW council in 2013. Smith has shown at the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI), Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Paisley Art Institute (PAI) and RSW annual exhibitions and has won various prestigious awards. Awards 2001 David Cargill prize, RGI Annual Exhibition. 2009 Winsor and Newton Award, RSW Annual exhibition 2010 The Adam Award, PAI Annual Exhibition Shortlisted Inverarity One-to-One Travel Award, RGI Annual Exhibition 2011 James B. Curr Award, PAI Annual Exhibition 2014 By Distinction Art Award, PAI Annual Exhibition Solo Exhibitions 2011 Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford 2012 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol ScotlandArt.com, Glasgow Crinan Hotel and Gallery, Crinan 2013 Crinan Hotel and Gallery, Crinan 2014 Scottish Paintings, Medici Gallery, London Publications 2007 Featured artist ‘The International Artist’, Aug/Sept 2008 ‘The Glasgow Group, 50 years of Scottish Art’ 2009 Cover,‘Gaelic Language and Economic Development’ J. Kirk & D. O'Baoill
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‘Circus Comes to Greenock Docks’ oil on linen 61 x 61 cm
‘Nets Drying, Caol, Appin’ watercolour 25 x 41 cm
‘Hamish and Joey’s Harbour Walk’ oil on linen 102 x 102 cm
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Graeme Wilcox Graeme attended Glasgow School of Art 198993 and graduated with a BA (Hons). His work, technically traditional, has a powerful contemporary feel, depicting underlying tensions between animation and stillness. He is able to portray the transient, blurred image of one moving figure and at the same time, engage in precise photographic representation of another. Awards: Prizewinner,Towry Award, Best Picture 2013 Prizewinner Visual Art Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh, 2012 Prizewinner, Paisley Institute Fine Art, 2009 Visual Art Scotland, City Art Centre,Edinburgh, 2009 Prizewinner, Aberdeen Artist's Annual Exhibition, 2008 Finalist Celeste Art Prize, London 2006 Prizewinner, Paisley Institute Annual Exhibition, 2006 Glasgow Art Club Fellowship Award, 2004 Arthur Andersen Prize for Best Young Artist, RGI Annual Exhibition, 1998 Runner-Up Prize, Black Swan Publishers Award, 1999 The Cross Trust Award Hope Scott Trust Grant
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‘Cyclist’ oil on canvas 76 x 96 cm
Selected Exhibitions: BP Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery, London Royal Portrait Society. Mall Galleries, London Visual Arts Scotland. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh RGI Annual Exhibition, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
One Man show, Medici Gallery, London Group Show, Galerie van Campen, Antwerp Caledonian Show, CGFA, Eton The Portrait Exhibition, Blackheath Gallery, London RSA Open, Edinburgh
Douglas Davies RSW
Exhibitions 2014 Scottish Paintings, Medici Gallery, London Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh 2013 Finlay Grant Gallery, Melrose, Scotland 2012 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh 2011 Castlegate House Gallery, Cumbria 2010 “Impressions de Paris” French Institute, Edinburgh “Horizons” Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh 2009 The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh 2007 Broughton Gallery, Peebleshire “Artist in residence” Charles Rennie Macintosh Society, Collioure, France The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh 2006 Castlegate House, Cumbria 2005 Walker Gallery, Harrogate 2004 Collyer Bristow, London
Born 1946 1966-70 Edinburgh College of Art - Studied Ceramics and Glass Design 1970-71 Postgraduate Scholarship in Ceramics, Travelling Scholarship to Italy 1973-86 Lecturer in Ceramics, Glasgow School of Art 1986 Full-time Potter and Painter 2000 Full-time Painter Elected member of Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (R.S.W.) 2007 ‘Artist in Residence’, Collioure, France
‘Anniversary Lilies’ acrylic on paper 75 x 100 cm
“The Scottish Borders, where I have lived for over thirty years, are a constant inspiration whatever the season”.
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Anna King Residencies
2009 Traon Nevez, Brittany
2006 & 2007 Watch House, Catterline Awards
2012 Creative Scotland Quality Production Funding for a collaborative project with poet Rebecca Sharp 2007 Anna Miller Scholarship Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Awards 2007 Winner
2005 Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award [Student Exhibition] Ian Eadie Award, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
Education
‘Rusty Tin Roof’ oil and pencil on paper, laid on board 40 x 80 cm
2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Solo Exhibitions
2013 RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow: Unmapped, collaborative project with writer Rebecca Sharp
2011 Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen 2010 Beaux Arts, Bath 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2009 Open Eye Galley, Edinburgh Traon Nevez, Brittany 2008 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2007 Open Eye Galley, Edinburgh “I love to explore empty, feral places: wastelands, abandoned buildings and barren pieces of scrub-land”.
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‘White Shed’ oil and pencil on paper, laid on board 40 x 80 cm
‘Misty Forest IV’ oil and pencil on paper, laid on board 21 x 26 cm
‘Gorgie Road’ oil and pencil on paper, laid on board 26 x 32 cm
‘Misty Forest V’ oil and pencil on paper, laid on board 21 x 34 cm
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