Known as ‘The Two Roberts’, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde were key figures in advancing Scottish modern art. Both grew up in rural Ayrshire to working-class families and met at Glasgow School of Art in 1933. Their relationship was no freshers’ fling. They became so inseparable that when Colquhoun won a travelling scholarship from the […]
My 50-minute pilgrimage over to the & Gallery in New Town to see Lily Macrae’s Reverie collection was certainly worth it. After graduating from Edinburgh School of Art in 2016, Macrae now works in Glasgow. This is her first solo exhibition, showcasing her ‘tableaux vivants’. Macrae’s style is original and inventive. She has incorporated snippets […]
In a fusion of the pictorial and the prosaic, Celia Paul’s memoir Self-Portrait is a potently honest and personal read. Paul, a prolific artist, proclaims herself at the start as “not a portrait painter” but “an autobiographer and a chronicler of my life and family”. Readers are able to immerse themselves in her world, seeing […]