Great to be featured in the March / April edition of the Glasgow Herald’s Luxury Magazine. Find our article nestled nicely in the Arts section. With a look at both the Gallery and our Public Art Projects. Always a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak about what we’re up
Abstract art can sometimes be elevated to a superior – perhaps even pretentious – status in the art world; where it is paradoxically also condemned by many as ‘not art’, because it deviates from being overtly representational. There are often three camps of people that are suspicious of abstract art:
Water is perhaps the earth’s most malleable natural asset. It moves between its function as a simple daily resource that sustains our lives; to delineating global borders; and overwhelming human life by filling spectacular oceans. For some, those rivers, lochs, waterfalls, and seas are of unparalleled beauty; but for others
This week we had the pleasure of visiting the studio of Eleanor Carlingford to discuss her new body of work – Interface – which is now on at Art Pistol gallery. This exhibition showcases fourteen new oil paintings, and a series of related drawings, exploring the relationship between the self
Request Brochure Carlingford’s new show entitled “Interface” opens at the gallery this Saturday at 2pm and we’d love if you could attend. If you can’t then please request a brochure above. Or all new work will be available to view online at 5pm on Saturday. Interface by Eleanor Carlingford Twenty
Introducing… Richard Marsden Clean lines and block colour. Precise and perfectly weighted composition and style. Marsden’s approach to his screen printing is near clinical in application. Inspired by architectural forms and construction, his works aim to display the physical strength and permanence of buildings. He likes to give particular attention
Generally speaking, the concept of ‘art’ is almost always associated with the word ‘beautiful’. So many of us consider the most popular art to be that which is a perfect unification of colour, line, texture and subject matter – a stunning human face, a breathtaking landscape; a satisfying pattern of
Gracing our walls this month are the beautiful mixed-media works of Claire Kennedy. In this show, she is exploring fresh Glaswegian scenes; bold details of industrial structures; and the dissipating image of the trusty cassette tape. All of which she explores, characteristically, through a textured amalgamation of acrylic paint, photography,
East vs West: Celebrating the visual beauty of Thailand and Scotland. Today is a very exciting day. We welcome to the gallery 14 shiny new works from the brilliant Michelle Campbell. It isn’t often that you can say with the deepest sincerity that this truly is a collection of unique,
A Scottish landscape painting; picture this – a remote, highland mountainscape; a soft, golden light diffused across the scene; a stag roaming through the foreground; and maybe a kilt-clad man with a spear, trotting inconspicuously somewhere in the wilderness. Hm… we’re just going to go ahead and say it… This
Rachel Hobkirk and Hermione Macmillan are 2 emerging talents we’re very excited to share this month. Both have recently returned from stints in the Far East, and the new works capture their ever evolving styles; Hobkirk with her constructed canvases that leave viewers questioning the flatness and depth they see.
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