Calton
Gallery
Address 10 Royal Terrace
Reviewers JoyLiz
21st
Festival Exhibition
As
you walk along Royal Terrace a small yellow AA sign points to the
Calton Gallery, otherwise you would think you were entering an art-rich
smart private house, even to the ringing of the door bell.
In the two large reception rooms and up the stairs there is a range
of Scottish, British and European paintings from 1750 to 1940 and
a few sculptures.
Several well respected names feature, but do not expect to be overawed.
However, Sir Robin Philipson does raise the stakes with his vibrant
colour and thick paint. And I was particularly impressed with 'Macho
man, Christ and the innocent'. There were some lovely delicate, sensitive
watercolours; Edwin John Alexander's 'Water avens and grass' and Patrick
William Adam's 'On the Dargle water, autumn' to mention two of the
most appealing.
Open from 10th August to 9th September Mon -Fri 10am -6pm, Sat during
exhibition 10am-1pm.
Admission
free.
Jon Schueler
The Place Further along Royal Terrace, and round the corner
is the Ingleby Gallery. It does not have the advantage of an AA sign
and is unidentified other than by VI Carlton Terrace address.
Reviewers JoyLiz
Compared
to the Calton Gallery, this exhibition is outstanding. Jon Schueler
(1916-1992) was a contemporary of Rothko, Pollock and Still in New
York, but although he exhibited with them, he fell in love with Mallaig,
a tiny fishing village on the West of Scotland, and it became his
home in 1975.
He is an abstract painter not unrelated to Rothko in style. The paintings
in the exhibition are both oil and watercolour and are beautiful in
the subtlety of colour and form. His subject is always grounded in
nature, in the light and atmosphere of the Scottish west coast. These
atmospheric cloudscapes are mostly of the delicatest of colour, though
one or two, particularly the watercolours are more vibrant.
There is a book, but at £20 with only a few colour plates, not worth
it to me. It did, however, show some of his other paintings, many
of which are brighter. Graham Lovet also has some lovely sleek ceramic
vases on sale at the exhibition. This is a unique, worthwhile exhibition.
Open
from 2nd August to 9th September, Monday to Saturday 10am- 5pm.
Admission free.
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