Arts & Antiques
Time’s running out to bid in online auction
A firm is holding an online auction of unsold lots from a sale last week. A host of paintings, sculptures, swords and other weaponry are being auctioned by Holts Auctioneers, who specialise in fine, modern and antique guns. The lots were unsold by Holts at a sale on 19 March, and bids are now being…
Read MoreThe Antiques Roadshow is back for more
The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow returns to Scotland for an edition which will be shown on Mother’s Day. After the taste of glorious Crathes Castle summer sunshine that reached our screens in January, the BBC team are back for a second outing National Trust for Scotland property. The second of two programmes filmed at Crathes last…
Read MoreTwo new art exhibitions are all ready to open
Two shows are opening tomorrow at The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh. The first is an exhibition of Scottish landscape paintings by Victoria Orr Ewing (b.1962). Her pictures depict remote crofts and unsullied vistas of Galloway, the Highlands and the west coast of Scotland all dwarfed by churning, luminescent skies. Galloway-born Orr Ewing lived and…
Read MoreRooms II is challenging gallery norms
A Scots gallery is presenting Rooms II – an exhibition curated by the Green Gallery and Steven Burgess Fine Furniture this weekend. The Green Gallery have joined forces with Steven Burgess Fine Furniture for the second year running. They believe they are the only gallery in Scotland do this – creating room set ups, but…
Read MoreMoy Mackay ready for this year’s Borders Art Fair
Scottish landscape artist and author Moy Mackay is poised to reveal her new collection of work this week. She will literally pull all her threads together in readiness for her appearance at this year’s Borders Art Fair held at Springwood Park in Kelso from 15–17 March. As a non-profit organisation, opportunities for public and private…
Read MoreNew selection on show at the Glasgow Art Studio
The Glasgow Print Studio has a new display in its Ground Floor Gallery. During they month of March, they are showing a selection of works that they showed at London Art Fair 2019 in January. Recent and new publications here include Smug Cogito by Alasdair Gray, Pretty Vacant by Jim Lambie, and Calculated Risk by…
Read MoreTaking his time to capture nature in its full beauty
To David Johnston, member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the north east is an artist’s paradise. Panoramic views of north eastern coastlines, woodlands teeming with fauna and flora, and majestic hills rolling effortlessly into the horizon – we are undoubtedly spoiled by the natural beauty of Aberdeenshire. Though many of us…
Read MoreRare Macallan expected to sell for half a million
A bottle of the very rare Macallan 60 year old 1926, with a label designed by the eminent, internationally acclaimed, British pop artist Sir Peter Blake, leads Bonhams Whisky sale. Estimated at £500,000-700,000, it has been consigned by a UK collector who acquired the bottle on its release in 1986. The whisky lay at Macallan…
Read MoreThe Scottish Sale highlights art, history and people
In May 2019, Bonhams celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Scottish Sale. This unique auction is long-established as the premier sale of its type to be held anywhere in the world featuring the very best of Scottish art, sourced globally, from 18th century portraiture to Contemporary Art, by way of the Colourists, Glasgow Boys, Edinburgh…
Read MoreCelebration of 300 years of Robinson Crusoe
The worlds of Robinson Crusoe and Alexander Selkirk collide in new exhibition by award winning artist Roger Palmer. Exactly 300 years after the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, artist Roger Palmer, in association with Fife Contemporary, presents an exhibition installation that offers a fresh approach to Defoe’s much discussed novel. Through contemporary photographic imagery…
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