Died: January 22, 2021. IT was 1993, and considerable interest was stirring in the world of Scottish art: the world-renowned David Hockney would, for the first time, be exhibiting his paintings in this country. The venue was the William Hardie Gallery at 141 West Regent Street, Glasgow. In 1992 Hardie had begun accompanying his friend John Cox, Scottish Opera’s artistic director, to Los Angeles to meet Hockney, Cox having engaged the artist to design the sets and costumes for a Covent Garden production of Richard Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Hardie and Hockney got to know each other well and the result was that Hockney agreed to let the gallery exhibit 22 of his latest paintings, which he had begun after finishing his set designs.
Wick artist s painting like a LSD trip By David G Scott Published: 07:37, 17 January 2021
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A painting featuring in a new online show by an artist from Wick was lauded by a scientist who had worked in psychedelic therapy in the 1950s.
Professor Ian Charles Scott, who now lives in New York, has work in the show hosted by Edinburgh s prestigious Open Eye Gallery â an online-only exhibition due to Covid restrictions.
The show is called An Exhibition Celebrating the Lives of W Gordon Smith and Mrs Jay Gordonsmith and features Ian s painting, which was created in 1989 and depicts a surreal scene within a megalithic chambered tomb in Orkney known as the Dwarfie Stane.
20th century could fetch up to £400,000 at auction in Edinburgh next week. The collection features 76 artworks including exceptional examples from iconic contemporary artists such as John Bellany, Ken Currie and Adrian Wiszniewski to modern still life and landscapes by Scottish Colourist artist George Leslie Hunter, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder and Sir William George Gillies. under the hammer live online at Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers on Wednesday evening [JAN 20]. Celtic Phantasmagoria , valued at £50,000-70,000, and a similarly vast Ken Currie oil painting A Tree of Liberty , expected to make £40,000-60,000. Hunter s A Still Life and Green Jug , painted in the late 1920s, could