tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80016114727410256142024-03-05T14:40:50.949+00:00S M I T H Y G A L L E R YSMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-3858315450398006742019-08-24T13:58:00.000+01:002019-08-24T14:01:04.277+01:00SANDY MURPHY RGI PAI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Our fourth solo exhibition with the esteemed Sandy Murphy RGI PAI opens on 1 September 2019. We are delighted to be once again showcasing his most recent collection of paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sandy Murphy was born in Ayrshire in 1956 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1976 until 1980. From his home and studio in West Kilbride, he pursues an intensely single-minded passion for paint and its involvement in his visual response to his native Ayrshire landscape. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A pupil of James Robertson and Duncan Shanks at Glasgow School of Art, Sandy’s richly textured oils have clear antecedents in Ghillies and Eardley. His intimate, carefully considered works stand comparison with the best works of both these masters of Scottish painting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was elected to the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) in 2000 and the Paisley Art Institute (PAI) in 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It continues until 29 September.</span>SMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-52887448957063083622019-01-26T15:44:00.003+00:002019-01-26T15:49:56.855+00:00Susan Hutchison<div class="font_8" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none !important; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-shadow: none !important;">
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We are very pleased to be hosting Scottish painter Susan Hutchison's first ever Featured Artist exhibition. </div>
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Susan Hutchison studied Illustration and Printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1986-1990.</div>
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She excels in several different subject matter, but many of Susan's paintings reflect the surroundings in which she lives. Based in rural Perthshire, in the Carse of Gowrie, she paints the many creatures in this part of the world, particularly the many different varieties of sheep. </div>
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She enjoys capturing their unique characters, using detail, manipulating the paint to achieve each 'portrait'.</div>
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She currently combines fine art painting with teaching art & design in secondary education. Her heart belongs in her painting and she is now fast becoming an artist of reputation.</div>
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To view the exhibition, please click on the link:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #656565; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Her studies of flowers are intimate compositions which evoke a mood through their vibrancy of colour and loose bold brushwork. Her paintings are instinctive responses to her subject, often mixing paint directly on the canvas, so creating a sense of spontaneity which is prevalent in all her work. Alison's abstract works are sensorial responses to places which hover in the minds' eye, they seem to create a visual order all of their own.</span></div>
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Alison has had exposure in The Scotland on Sunday in 2011 where she was described as 'The new Scottish Colourist'. In 2012 Homes and Interiors Magazine deemed her to be one of the top Contemporary Scottish Colourists making waves in the art world. Her instantly recognisable work is held in private collections throughout the UK.</div>
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'Wild Love' previews on Sunday 29 July and continues until 26 August 2018.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We will be taking a stand at the Glasgow Art Fair this May, which will take place at its new home, the world renowned Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum located in the city’s West End. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The event, which is now in its fourth year, will take place from the 11-13th of May.</span></div>
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SMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-58805772425418597422018-02-19T19:51:00.001+00:002018-04-22T13:30:37.090+01:00Recent Exhibition<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Our first two person exhibition of the year features the magnificent Cate Inglis and Jane Gardiner. </div>
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Both Cate and Jane have fast become the rising stars of the Scottish art scene and we are delighted to be showing their work together for the first time.</div>
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The contrast between these two artists is clear, but they share a great commitment to their art and to their subject matter. They also share a great sensitivity of palette.<br />
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Cate is fascinated by urban decay, of the deserted cityscape, but on closer inspection, there is such beauty and hope in her detailed and sensitive observations. She has been wowing art collectors since her emergence onto the art scene.<br />
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Jane is an observer and is fascinated by people, interiors, animals and unexpected juxtapositions. She lives by her sketchbook - a true artist.<br />
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This exciting exhibition opens 11 March 2018.<br />
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Our first exhibition of 2018 opened with a bang on 4th February with an exciting mix of new paintings by three dynamic and diverse artists. </div>
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Tracy Butler is a Smithy Gallery favourite and we are delighted to pair her work with the unique works of Helen Tabor and the highly collectable paintings of Marion Drummond.</div>
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The preview day was busy with artists, art-lovers and visitors to the gallery, all enjoying the paintings, and the complementary wine and chocolates. A perfect day.</div>
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All three artists have a collection of red dots to compliment their beautiful paintings. Very well-deserved all round.</div>
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Many thanks to Marion Drummond, Helen Tabor and Tracy Butler and to everyone who attended.</div>
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WATERCOLOUR isn’t always taken as seriously as it should be. Perhaps it suffers from the days when it was considered an “accomplishment” for well brought up young ladies, like embroidery or holding a tea cup in the proper manner. Or perhaps it has seemed to be stuck for too long in the realm of the Sunday afternoon hobbyist.</div>
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Jenny Matthews says: “When I tell people I work in watercolour, I can see them thinking, ‘I know what watercolour is, it’s probably small and a bit twee’. People don’t imagine the strong colours, the big scale. I quite enjoy surprising people. </div>
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Anyone with a preconceived notion of what watercolour is will be surprised by the work of Jenny Matthews and Angus McEwan. Two of the top artists in Scotland working in the medium, and both recognised internationally for their achievements, they aren’t afraid to push it in new directions. Being exhibited together here for the first time, their work demonstrates the contrasting ways in which watercolour can fulfil its potential.</div>
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Jenny Matthews studied botanical painting under Dame Elizabeth Blackadder at Edinburgh College of Art, and fell in love both with flowers and with watercolour. Ever since then, she has worked with both, balancing water and pigment to capture the bright colours she loves: the ochre of a tulip, the deep blue of an iris. “I feel watercolour is really descriptive. If you’re trying to portray plants, it works really well; there are lot of markings on flowers which look as though they have been painted in watercolour.”<br />
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Angus McEwan had to go all the way to China to discover the potential of the medium. In 1996 he was awarded the prestigious Alastair Salveson travel scholarship, he packed watercolours because he didn’t have room in his luggage for his oils and acrylics. “I thought: ‘How hard can it be?’” he grimaces. “The first paintings I did were awful. <br />
Since those early days Angus has come a long way and has won numerous international watercolour awards as well as being invited to judge several international watercolour competitions. <br />
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Angus has developed his own style, building up layers of paint to create the realist depictions of weathered surfaces and buildings for which he is highly acclaimed: atmospheric evocations of old, once-inhabited places. “I find watercolour really versatile. I can get the crisp quality I want with detail, I can get a richness and depth by building up layers. A lot of people have quite strict rules about it; I quite like breaking these rules.”<br />
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Listening to Angus and Jenny talk, one quickly becomes aware of the contrasting ways they work with the medium - and make it work for them. I hear about the varying properties of pigments and paper; broad brushes, fine brushes, even a toothbrush; layering, splattering and stippling; keeping a painting balanced on the edge of control. One is left in no doubt that this is a robust contemporary medium requiring considerable technical skill and ripe for experimentation. <br />
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Through the complementary contrasts of their work, one sees a range of what can be achieved. As Angus says: “I keep returning to this incredible medium, even though it is considered by some as a lesser way of working. This exhibition will demonstrate that there is a lot more to watercolour than many people think.”<br />
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In May we are pairing two very different artists - Phil McLoughlin and Joyce Gunn Cairns. They are exhibiting for the very first time together in their exhibition <i>'Real Imaginings'.</i><br />
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Each of us is attracted to different work for different reasons. I personally like to be stopped in my tracks. This happens rarely and when it does my heart beats a little faster as I feel something new and unique. I think is takes an artist of incredible talent to have this effect on the viewer.</div>
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I was first introduced to Joyce Gunn Cairns, the fabulous Edinburgh artist, not long after I opened the gallery in 2005 and I was delighted to come across Phil McLoughlin's work more recently being exhibited in the RGI. Both artists have had this impact on me.</div>
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As different as the work looks in style, there is a depth and tension there, speaking (or rather not speaking) volumes.</div>
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The exhibition opens on Sunday 7th May.</div>
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In April, the Smithy baby is due! We will be spending a little time getting our wee one trained up in the ways of the art world before returning to the gallery at the end of July. Here we will be organising our new exhibition, the annual Affordable Art Show for its opening at the beginning of August.<br />
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This is an exhibition of smaller works by a host of painters, ceramicists and jewellers. All works are priced under £500. This is a great way for art-lovers to add to their collections, or for first-time buyers to begin theirs with an affordable piece of work.<br />
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In September, we are delighted that the esteemed landscape and still life painter Sandy Murphy RSW RGI PAI will be having a large solo exhibition of new works. Sandy had a very successful solo exhibition with us in 2013 and we are delighted that he will be returning.<br />
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In October, the incredibly popular Gordon Wilson will be also be returning to the gallery for a solo exhibition of new and exciting works. Gordon's work attracts large crowds of admirers - a show not to be missed!<br />
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<a href="http://www.smithygallery.com/">www.smithygallery.com</a>SMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-43825351134835791262015-09-30T13:14:00.002+01:002015-09-30T13:14:23.103+01:00Cathy Campbell
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</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">new approach involves far less heavy reworking. The paintings are
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grew up around the isolated cottages and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">hamlets of the unusual triangle marked out
by the small sandstone towns of Brechin, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Montrose and Forfar. This is something he
says, ‘that’s left a not unwelcome scar on my </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">psyche.’</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Napier University, before spending several years </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">working as a theatre photographer,
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digital medium to ‘paint’ his narrative creations. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It adapts traditional painting media </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and applies the pigment to traditional </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">papers or canvas by means of computer software. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">technique, it refers to a computer
graphics software program that uses a virtual canvas </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and virtual painting box of brushes,
colours and other supplies. The virtual box contains </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">many instruments that do not exist outside
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layered worlds of character-laden detail and </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">imagery. At first glance, everything seems
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was the first artist to show digital work at The </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Glasgow Art Club. He won The Glasgow Art
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We are delighted to be exhibiting Kevin's work alongside the oil painter Cathy Campbell.<br />
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We are in the middle of our TEN exhibition. This exhibition, which continues until 9 August, is the beginning of the celebrations for our tenth year. Our anniversary is in November, and we can't believe it's almost ten years already!<br />
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We are also excited about what's coming next. Three very special artists are coming together for the first time. Cate Inglis, Joyce Gunn Cairns and Henry Fraser are three very different painters, each as defined as the next.</div>
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Cate Inglis creates intricate and very beautiful urban scenes:</div>
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Joyce Gunn Cairns creates sensitive yet strong, evocative paintings featuring mainly figures and wildlife:</div>
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We are busy hanging our new exhibition 'To See the Summer Sky', a solo exhibition of paintings by Jenny Matthews.</div>
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Jenny is one of Scotland's foremost watercolour artists and we are adorning the gallery walls with twenty nine of her beautiful paintings.</div>
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Jenny is known mainly for her flower paintings, her love of the subject began on Scottish Highland holidays as a child. Since then it has been her passion to seek out flowers and plants wherever she goes.</div>
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This exhibition is already taking on the feel of this - the wonder at natural beauty and in particular the fleeting nature of flowers.<br />
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Sandy's presence always makes the gallery feel special - the paintings themselves, and also peoples' reactions to them. The colour, tone, texture and beauty of his paintings are rarely unappreciated. From the art-lover who knows that there is something very special about these paintings, to the artist who wishes he or she could paint like him.<br />
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The paintings speak for themselves, but people always want to know more about the artist behind them. Sandy Murphy was born in Irvine in 1956. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1975 to 1980. Having taught art in Ayrshire schools, he turned his full attention to painting in 1985 and has never looked back<br />
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He has become one the country’s best painters and his work is loved and respected by his contemporaries and art-lovers alike. This is reflected by his many accolades and awards. He has been the National Prize Winner of the Laing Competition several times. He has won the Sir Gillies Award (RSW), the Glasgow Art Club Fellowship award (RGI), amongst many others. He was elected Royal Society of Watercolourists (RSW) in 1996, the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI) in 2000 and also the Paisley Art Institute (PAI) in 2010.</div>
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I think he is so highly regarded by his contemporaries because of his talent, but also because of his motivation, his passion. For Sandy it's about the process itself. He creates colour, texture, dark and light, working on the painting as it hangs in his studio, with not necessarily a finished result in mind. He has recently been working a lot with collage.<br />
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Sandy's honest expression through various media, whether it happens to be a still life or landscape leads to beauty. And this is what makes him such a special artist. And I don't believe anyone has just one Sandy Murphy painting - if you like him, you love him!<br />
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Hanging the exhibition will take a couple of days and when working with paintings of such quality, it is a great pleasure to see them coming together in harmony.<br />
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This is the last week of our Carol Dewart exhibition. This stunning exhibition has had record visitors and a third of the paintings have already sold. <br />
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Carol is a master of technique and each painting is a cacophony of style resulting in a highly detailed scene.</div>
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The paintings featured here are some of the beautiful works that are yet to sell. Most of the paintings are ordinary scenes around the artist's house and garden made extraordinary.</div>
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NatalieSMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-86592460310310124102015-03-04T12:49:00.000+00:002015-03-04T16:12:12.375+00:00'It Happened Last Summer'<br />
The opening of the Carol Dewart exhibition , 'It Happened Last Summer', went with a bang on Sunday! <br />
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Carol had been working on this collection of new paintings for a long time and the exhibition looked beautiful.<br />
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All the paintings are intricately patterned scenes from what the artist sees around her every day. She makes the ordinary extraordinary. Each painting is also cleverly titled after a classic film which seems to add even more drama and individuality.</div>
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Carol's work is incredibly unique and it was no surprise that there was a such a fabulous turnout. </div>
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And with this fabulous response came fabulous sales. A quarter of the paintings have been sold already, but thankfully each one is as special as the next, and every person seems to have a different preference.</div>
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SMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-64187125354174169672015-02-17T11:34:00.004+00:002015-02-17T11:49:58.363+00:00The AffordablesIt's the last week of our Affordable Art Show. It has been a busy exhibition as always but there are some beautiful paintings that haven't been snapped up yet. <br />
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We are starting to turn our attention to our next exhibition and we are delighted to be having our second solo exhibition with Carol Dewart.<br />
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Her striking mixed media paintings feature the natural world, be it felines, birds or foliage. But mainly they are about light and pattern.</div>
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Texture, pattern and light are the key elements in her paintings. She says by changing any of these factors a painting can be constantly changing, evolving with little variation in the actual subject matter.</div>
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Each work creates an individual world of it's own, as the cinematic titles illustrate.</div>
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This striking exhibition opens on 1 March and it's not just for cat-lovers!<br />
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Gordon Wilson is one of the exhibiting artists in our current Affordable Art Show and as always, visitors to the gallery are loving his work.</div>
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Over recent years Gordon has become a very well known and respected artist both here in Scotland and all over the UK. Working predominantly in oils, his subject matter ranges from narrative portraiture and figurative paintings to dynamic landscapes. His sheer love of Scotland comes through his bold and energetic paintings.</div>
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Born in 1968 in Glasgow, Gordon has spent the last 25 years in the art field as designer, picture framer, restorer and artist. Painting is his passion and through his hard work and dedication, well-deserved recognition has followed. </div>
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Demand for Gordon’s work has grown steadily each year as his reputation increases. He has exhibited in both the Royal Glasgow Institute and the Paisley Arts Institute, as well in leading galleries throughout the UK.</div>
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He has won several awards and has developed a strong following from many private collectors. His work is now part of many large collections at home and abroad. </div>
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His paintings also features in several corporate collections including Biocon, and Marks and Spencer. </div>
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We are lucky enough to be exhibiting these five beautiful paintings of his. Two have already sold and I'm sure the rest will follow!<br />
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The Affordable Art Show continues until 22 February.<br />
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NatalieSMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-91800781160486777002015-01-28T13:28:00.000+00:002015-01-28T13:28:01.359+00:00Red Dots!<br />
We have held The Affordable Art Show every January for the past seven years. It always gets the year off to a great start and this year has been no exception. <br />
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Even although people were snowed in a couple of days before the exhibition opening, and we looked like this . . . .<br />
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We are only in week two of the exhibition, but I always like to celebrate the artists' work that has sold so far. They are all sporting their red dots in the gallery, but then they will be whisked off to good homes. So here are some of the beautiful works that have been snapped up already.<br />
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Gordon Wilson is one of our most popular artists and always sells well . . . . <br />
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SMITHY GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764520808134426668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8001611472741025614.post-83663878248118220382015-01-23T12:51:00.000+00:002015-01-23T12:58:08.011+00:00Kevin LowKevin Low is one of the exhibiting artists in our current Affordable Art Show and his work stands out though as something quite original and unique.<br />
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The work is striking and enigmatic. Each painting draws you into the world of a carefully crafted character. They are at once intriguing, witty and mysterious. And most intriguing of all, this isn’t painting as we know it.<br />
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At first glance these could be oil paintings, but there is a unique quality to them and on closer inspection, something completely different. <br />
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Kevin is using a relatively new digital technique to create his beautiful works. Recently championed by David Hockney, the technique of digital painting is being explored by more and more artists. <br />
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Never to replace painting, it is another medium that can now be used to create works of art. He draws his work with a digital tablet and pen. The images are then printed using archival papers and inks. Each print is produced only in an edition of 10, making them pleasingly more affordable.<br />
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Kevin is fast becoming one of Scotland’s best-known digital painters.<br />
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For more information on this exhibition, please go to the website: <a href="http://www.smithygallery.com/">http://www.smithygallery.com/</a></div>
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All the work has arrived for our Affordable Art Show and we are busy hanging for the preview this Sunday.<br />
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This annual exhibition gets the year off to a great start. Opening mid January and now in its seventh year, all works are under £500.<br />
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The exhibition showcases smaller works from the gallery's favourite and most popular artists. <br />
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This exhibition is also a great way to introduce new artists to the gallery. We will be showing works for the first time by Jane Gardiner and Cara MacKinnon Crawford.<br />
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We still have a lot of hanging to do, but with work like this, it's always a great pleasure.<br />
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The exhibition previews on Sunday 18th January, 2-5pm<br />
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