The renowned Paisley Art Institute’s annual exhibition has opened to the public – and features the town’s titans of the art world.
The Institute’s 133rd exhibition showcases Paisley connections through its members’ work and the invited artist Lachlan Goudie and his father, Sandy Goudie’s work.
Artist and broadcaster Lachlan followed in his father’s artistic footsteps and paints portraits, landscapes and still life.
Lachlan – who is a judge on the BBC1’s Big Painting Challenge – has exhibited his work to critical acclaim all over the world and is currently working on a schedule of work to reflect industrial Britain.
His paintings sit alongside that of his late Paisley father Sandie Goudie, who also had a broad artistic range.
As a portraitist, he painted incredible figures, from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to Billy Connolly.
He was elected a member of the Glasgow Art Club in 1956 where the exhibition is aptly being displayed.
Anne Hargan, secretary of the institute, said the decision was taken to stage the exhibition in Glasgow while Paisley Museum continues to be refurbished.
“Members of Paisley Art Institute have often been members of Glasgow Art Club, so it makes sense to have the exhibition there,” she said.
“Sandy Goudie was a painter who worked out of a Gilmour Street studio when he was young and for a time taught at Glasgow School of Art and for many Glasgow Art Club was almost like the staff room, so there is that connection too.
“Lachlan is also such a popular artist and speaker at the club when he comes up from England.”
Work submitted to the exhibition was judged by a distinguished panel of experienced judges, including the club’s president and art expert, Robert Ferguson, and Clare Henry, journalist and art critic.
On the opening night, the pair handed out over £5,000 worth of prizes.
The James Curr Award was won by Michelle Ives and the William and Mary Armour Award was presented to James S Davis.
Elspeth Bennie won the Belrane Foundry Award, while Denise Findlay took home the Bet Low award, which goes to an artist who has demonstrated the traditional skills of draughtamnanship and painting.
The exhibition also pays tribute to two members of the institute who sadly died in the past year – Anda Paterson and Pam Carter.
The women’s work, which is markedly different, has poignantly been chosen to publicise the exhibition this month and features on posters for the event.
Describing the artists as “highly respected”, Mrs Hargan said: “Anda with her unique draughsmanship and bold high impact pictures sadly passed at the age of 90.
“She was a great supporter of the institute for those long years.
“Pam, who achieved great popularity for her Scottish landscape paintings in the colours of spectacular sunsets, surprises us with her subject matter. This was a painting to create prints from to raise funds for the endangered ‘drill monkeys’ depicted.”
The exhibition will run until Saturday, December 3 at Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street.
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