BREEZE ART GALLERY AT FRASERS
SUNDAY MARCH 7, 2-4PM
Duncan MacGregor – Personal Appearance
Duncan MacGregor,
Graphite Lighthouses
This leading contemporary marine artist, whose work tends towards abstraction, is showing his stunning new collection of colourful and distinctive seascapes.
MacGregor developed a passion for the sea and spent eighteen months sailing across the Atlantic and around the coast of Britain. He says: “I paint around a subject rather than transcribing it directly onto the canvas, and I hope that the energy and vibrancy of each image is far more alive to the viewer than the rather more prosaic reality.”
SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2.30-4PM
John Mackie: Making an Impression - Personal Appearance
Duncan MacGregor,
Beach Huts
Born in Glasgow in 1953, John Mackie is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. His work is influenced by the techniques of the French Impressionists and the application of paint and affinity with colour of the Scottish Colourists. Dubbed ‘the master of light and shade’, his work reveals the profound understanding of light shared by both these movements.
He says: “I served my apprenticeship on the streets of Glasgow, where I grew up, and the River Clyde was my constant inspiration. Many’s the time I would be down there painting Jamaica Bridge at night with my miner’s torch on my head so as to see the colours.” John Mackie will also be appearing at Breeze Art Gallery, Peebles (Fri Mar 26, 6.30-9pm), Breeze Art Gallery at Jenners, Edinburgh (Sat Mar 27, 10.30am- 12.30pm), and Breeze Art Studio, Jenners at Loch Lomond Shores, Balloch (Sun Mar 28, noon-2pm)
Say it with art
Don’t forget your loved one this Valentine’s Day. For example, the work of Doug Hyde makes a beautiful gift. He says: “I find that inspiration for my painting can strike at any time, whether through my own emotional response to something or through observing somebody else’s love for another person or animal. Sometimes I will hear a phrase spoken and immediately visualise a picture. I then work around that phrase and use it as a title for the finished piece.”
“My ideas are generally spontaneous and mood-driven - whether that mood was good or bad! Painting like this gives me complete fulfillment. Being able to create an entirely individual and personal piece of work, from visualising the idea in my head, sketching it, painting it and finally seeing it completed, gives me complete satisfaction.”
Breeze Art Gallery At Frasers
45 Buchanan St.
Glasgow
Glasgow
0141 221 0189
M-W & F
9.30a-6p, Th 9.30a-8p, Sa 9a-6.30p, Su 11a-6p
www.breeze-gallery.co.uk
Also at: 3rd Floor, Jenners, 47 Princes St., Edinburgh, T 0131 220 2655; 88 High St., Peebles, T 01721 721684; & Jenners at Loch Lomond Shores, Ben Lomond Way, Balloch, T 01389 720341
General enquiries: 0800 1300 345.