Exhibitions

John Knox

The Light Sublime 23 Mar - 10 May 2023 Edinburgh An exhibition on the landscape and people of the West of Scotland will accompany the paintings by John Knox (1776-1845) Whether on a grand or diminutive scale, John Knox’s work depicts the epic spectacle of areas that, until the late 18th century, were not much visited. His subject was Loch... Read more

From the Window

Online Exhibition 23 Mar - 6 May 2023 Edinburgh Artists have often depicted windows as portals between two realms: the real and the imagined, the intimate and the unfamiliar. It is a divide between a private place and a public space. With work by: Sir David Wilkie Walter Geikie Sir James Lawton Wingate Gerald Leslie Brockhurst Iain MacNab Sir... Read more

Winter in Edinburgh

First Floor Gallery 12 Jan - 11 Mar 2023 Edinburgh Read more

Winter in Edinburgh

12 Jan - 11 Mar 2023 Edinburgh Read more

The Wonderful World of James McBey

The Fine Art Society and Fettes Fine Art 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Edinburgh Over a period of 50 years James McBey (1883-1959) would have studios in London, the US and Morocco. From the north-east of Scotland, where he was born and raised, he went on to travel extensively through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the States and central America. He produced a... Read more

True to Nature

Trees in Scottish Art 23 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 Edinburgh Trees, as an extension of the natural landscape, have been weighted with meaning throughout the history of art. Over time allegory gave way to the decorative and picturesque. The broader meanings and metaphors, however, remained. Our exhibition, starting with Alexander Nasmyth (1758- 1840), looks at paintings by Scottish artists and... Read more

David Eustace: Memento Mori

at Gleneagles Townhouse 15 Sep - 9 Oct 2022 Edinburgh Following the exhibition in our gallery at 25 Carnaby Street, The Fine Art Society presents Scottish photographer and director David Eustace's Memento Mori at Gleneagles Townhouse in Edinburgh, from 15 September to 9 October 2022. The works are selected from Eustace’s most recent work responding to the perception and inevitability... Read more

John McLean

Flare 22 Jul - 15 Sep 2022 Edinburgh We have produced an online viewing room for this exhibition. Please click here to visit. All works are available to purchase, for prices click 'Enquire' on the relevant artwork or contact us at edinburgh@thefineartsociety.com , +44 (0)131 557 4050. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2022, The Fine Art Society presents... Read more

Will Maclean

Time and Tides 22 Jun - 16 Jul 2022 Edinburgh Concurrent with a major retrospective at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre, The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by Will Maclean RSA. Maclean’s art serves as a tangible record and reference to culture, tradition, history and identity. A proponent of box construction art and the examination of found objects,... Read more

John Byrne

Ceci n'est pas une rétrospective 25 May - 16 Jul 2022 Edinburgh “Paisley ‘buddies’ are, to a man and a woman, total oddballs. I should know, I’m one of them,” said John once. John’s formal life as an artist began aged 18 when he entered Glasgow School of Art. His mother said he started drawing in his pram. A year before... Read more

Peter de Francia 1921-2012

4 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 Edinburgh, London Peter de Francia’s vibrant palette, dynamic compositions and evocative subjects reflect a style of painting that developed out of Picassos’ modernism. Some are dark and others funny. Best known for large-scale, sometimes violent depictions of combat and struggle, de Francia also gave attention to bucolic scenes of industry and recreation.... Read more

Waistel Cooper 1921-2003

Part one 14 Jan - 25 Feb 2022 Edinburgh, London 2021 marked the centenary year of artist-potter Waistel Cooper's birth. It seemed fitting that this was the moment The Fine Art Society, with its long history of dealing in decorative and applied arts, acquired a large single owner collection of Waistel's ceramics, with over one hundred pieces dating from the... Read more

Norman McBeath and Edmund de Waal

Perdendosi 14 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 Edinburgh Perdendosi is a limited edition set of twelve hand-printed original black and white photographs by Norman McBeath RSA together with a direct and personal response to the photographs by Edmund de Waal. The title, Perdendosi, is a musical term meaning to gradually die away. The photographs are a... Read more

Rituals

New sculpture by Tim Pomeroy 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Edinburgh For Tim, ritual is a multi-layered term. On one level, the process of sculpting with its repeated, meditative motions of carving, smoothing, refining forms a sort of ritual, paying reverence to the material being worked. On another, notions of ceremony and mysticism are embedded in the forms these works take... Read more

Barbara Balmer

18 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Edinburgh Barbara Balmer’s pictures have a curious, even surreal, edge. In her instantly recognisable style, she took the everyday and simplified it into shapes and patterns filled with subtle gradations of colour. Balmer produced work over five decades. Her quiet, often large-scale oils, belie a poetry of mood. Their stillness gives... Read more

Twenty Twenty One

30 Sep - 13 Nov 2021 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by Scottish artists, including: Allan Ramsay, Sir Henry Raeburn, John Knox, Sir David Wilkie, Patrick Nasmyth, David Roberts, Alexander Johnston, Sam Bough, Robert Herdman, Phoebe Traquair, Sir James Guthrie, Charles Hodge Mackie, Sir D Y Cameron, John Maclauchlin Milne, Sir James... Read more

The Glasgow Boys & Galloway Pictures

Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright 14 - 29 Aug 2021 Edinburgh Harbour Cottage Gallery Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LB Open 11am to 5pm Monday through Saturday 12pm to 5pm on Sundays In this, our 6th exhibition at Harbour Cottage Gallery and 43rd in Galloway, The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by The Glasgow Boys, alongside pictures by 19th... Read more

Owners of the Soil

Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser 29 Jul - 18 Sep 2021 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society presents Owners of the Soil, an exhibition of work by Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser, examining ties between land, identity and ownership through the early Scottish diaspora’s dual identity of colonised and coloniser. Maclean’s boxed constructions, collages and drawings recount the experiences of six residents of... Read more

The Glasgow Boys

10 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 Edinburgh When the Glasgow Boys rose to prominence in the 1880s, there was a sense of wonder at how a group of Scottish painters could hold such sway in the academies, salons and secessions of western Europe and North America. The group’s firm grasp on modernity brought a new lease of... Read more

Disegno

17th to 21st century drawings by Scottish artists 10 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh presents Disegno, an exhibition of drawings by Scottish artists from the 17th through 21st centuries. Draughtsmanship and linework are at the forefront of this exhibition, bringing together portraiture, landscape and historical subjects. With work by: David Allan, John Byrne, John Clerk of Eldin, Robert... Read more

Joan Eardley

6 - 29 May 2021 Edinburgh Unafraid to step outside societal conventions, from the outset, Joan Eardley developed a practice that challenged the norms of her time. The result was a defining Scottish style and a visceral account of people and place from Townhead in Glasgow to Catterline in Angus. To mark a centenary since her... Read more

New Works

6 - 29 May 2021 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of newly acquired work from 19th and 20th century Scottish artists, including: Patrick William Adam, Cosmo Alexander, Phyllis Bone, Sam Bough, John Boyd, John Byrne, George Paul Chalmers, James Cowie, William Gouw Ferguson, William Miller Frazer, Jack Knox, Charles Hodge Mackie, John MacWhirter,... Read more

Coast

1 Apr - 1 May 2021 Edinburgh Find the online viewing room for Coast here. Scotland’s coastline is one which naturally inspires in its dramatic geography. Coast presents a journey around the shores of the Scottish homeland, from Shetland to Galloway, uncovering the artists and works which have helped shape Scottish artistic identity through the centuries. The... Read more

Stuart Franklin

Narcissus 6 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 Edinburgh Find the online viewing room for Stuart Franklin: Narcissus here . Stuart Franklin (born 1956), member of Magnum Photos since 1989, has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st Century – from the massacre at Tiananmen Square to the Intifada – as well as producing many... Read more

Modern

18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Edinburgh 20th century Scottish works of art, including Barbara Balmer, Robert Henderson Blyth, John Boyd, John Byrne, FCB Cadell, Ian Fleming, William Gillies, Jack Knox, William McCance, and John McLean. Read more

Looking Out

18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Edinburgh Read more

John McLean

Forza: works on paper 14 Jan - 13 Feb 2021 Edinburgh As a gallery whose offering spans the centuries, the radical shift in the way our spaces look with John’s work always gives us an uplifting and refreshing surprise. The Boston Pictures, our penultimate show with John, felt as if the marks were dancing along the walls; the effect on visitors... Read more

Printmaking

1920-1940 14 Jan - 13 Feb 2021 Edinburgh Read more

Christmas

at The Fine Art Society 4 - 23 Dec 2020 Edinburgh Read more

Victoria Orr Ewing

The Light Between 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2020 Edinburgh The light between charts the ever changing skies over Harris and South Uist. Churning, luminescent clouds dwarf empty land and seascapes. Painted last autumn, the glowing machair and heatherclad hillsides inject colour into otherwise dream like scenes. Large scale oils and smaller, quickly worked acrylics on paper make up Victoria... Read more

Robert Powell

Phantom Things 30 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 Edinburgh A highly scholarly body of work, Phantom Things both intellectually and visually identifies the oddly dystopian future we face as a result of our constant need to collect and consume. In this, Robert’s second solo exhibition with The Fine Art Society, his singular voice draws attention towards our obsessions with... Read more

The Wilkie Tradition

25 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Edinburgh Scottish pastoral life became a literary focus at the close of the 18th century in the poetry of Burns, Ramsay and Fergusson. This, combined with an emerging availability of engravings after the Dutch and Fleming masters, encouraged artists in Scotland to look closer to home for their subject matter and... Read more

Twenty Twenty

25 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 Edinburgh Fra Giovanni Giocondo, a late 15th, early 16th century priest and scholar who designed the bridge at Notre Dame said, 'The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see -... Read more

Hang 4 //

Modern Scottish Pictures 1 - 19 Sep 2020 Edinburgh Celebrating the variety of 20th century Scottish Art, this selection of works captures modern perspectives of Scottish identity. In the face of global societal and technological change, the artists’ focus on the natural is evident, from Marzaroli’s photographic captures of traditional Scottish pastoral life, to Jennifer McRae’s latest work West... Read more

A History in Small Pictures

31 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 Edinburgh A survey of Scottish art over three centuries. Diminutive paintings by, amongst others, John Clerk of Eldin, Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Nasmyth, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sam Bough, John MacWhirter, E A Walton, Anne Redpath, William Crosbie and John Houston. Together they bring together aspects of Scottish culture, geography and identity.... Read more

John Byrne

Welcome To My World 19 Jun - 25 Jul 2020 Edinburgh John is an epiphany baby, born 6th January 1940. 2020 began, then, with a notable birthday and an unreasonably busy calendar that included a new theatre production, in conversations, a television profile, a legion of requests that are patiently accepted and a gallery show. Much of it to celebrate him... Read more

Ron Sandford

114°E / 1°W Hong Kong to Shetland 14 May - 13 Jun 2020 Edinburgh Hong Kong and Yell: two halves of The Fine Art Society’s first exhibition of drawings by Ron Sandford (b.1937). Island life from two geographically and culturally distinct and distant places are united in Ron’s appreciation of the commonplace – or common place – both richly detailed microcosms. In the mid... Read more

Hang 3 //

Scottish Painting 1950-1980 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 Edinburgh The decades following WW2 saw artists take new forms of artistic expression. The order and rationalism that had preceded was rejected. Painting became more gestural and instinctive; this was achieved through the application of paint not just from brushes but palette knives and any other means that gave the artist... Read more

John Halliday

The Monkey Palace 6 - 28 Mar 2020 Edinburgh Now in his late 80s, John Halliday lives two doors away from where he was born in Kirkcudbright. Life and travels have taken him far and wide to complete this circle. His childhood in the town brought him in contact with the likes of Jessie M King, her husband, EA... Read more

John Clerk of Eldin

1728-1812 13 - 29 Feb 2020 Edinburgh A prominent figure in Enlightenment circles, John Clerk began producing prints in his 40s with the encouragement of English landscape painter Paul Sandby and architect Robert Adam. The three took drawing trips together having met through the business dealings of their families. Clerk produced sets of etchings that were sold... Read more

Hang 2 //

Scottish Painting 1900-1940 13 Feb - 14 Mar 2020 Edinburgh The years 1900 to 1939 saw Britain move from a period of relative innocence and comfort to the trauma of war. After World War 1, artists retreated to more traditional, figurative art. The brutality of war encouraged them to step away from the radical. Amongst the artists whose pictures have... Read more

Hang 1 //

Early Scottish painting from the 17th & 18th centuries 13 Jan - 8 Feb 2020 Edinburgh Read more

The Print Show

13 Jan - 8 Feb 2020 Edinburgh The Print Show presented an annual exhibition of Scottish printmaking, featuring three centuries of etchings, drypoint, woodcuts and lithography. Exhibited artists included: Sir Muirhead Bone, James Mcbey, Gerald Brockhurst, Robert Sargent Austin, Charles Tunnicliffe, William Wilson, Ian Fleming, James Mcintosh Patrick Read more

Scottish Painting

1650-1950 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh 1650 to 1950 was a presentation of three centuries of Scottish Painting, from 17 th century works by William Gouw Ferguson through still life, landscape painting and portraiture to the 20th century. Included were works by Alexander Runciman, Alexander Nasmyth, John Knox, Horatio McCulloch, Sam Bough, Arthur Melville, Sir D... Read more

Fiona Dean

The Arrangement of Skin 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh The arrangement of skin, was an exhibition of taxidermy art by Fiona Dean. Blending science and artistry, Dean showcases a variety of bird species in surprising and unconstrained arrangements. Dean’s fascination with the process of taxidermy became an artistic calling following training with Scottish taxidermist George Jamieson in 2012. Dean’s... Read more

Timorous Beasties

15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh Design duo Timorous Beasties returned to The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh for their third exhibition, showcasing a series of folding privacy screens. Each featured a unique screenprinted design over their signature fabrics. Timorous Beasties was founded in Glasgow in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, who met studying... Read more

John Byrne

Then Till Now 27 Sep - 9 Nov 2019 Edinburgh John Byrne: Then Till Now was a small exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by John Byrne, dating from the late 1960s to today. Early works included watercolours signed 'Patrick' and a hand painted guitar from 1968. Robbie Coltrane was depicted as Danny McGlone from the BBC's Tutti Frutti, written... Read more

Intimate

A Portrait 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Edinburgh Close and personal portraiture: painting, sculpture and photography by living and twentieth century artists whose sitters are closest to them or whose inner workings engage them, sometimes the artist themselves. Scottishness links the artists, be that by birth, training or home. With work by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, Mabel Royds, William... Read more

Nicole Farhi

Writing Heads 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Edinburgh Writing Heads was an exhibition of 25 busts of 20th century novelists and playwrights sculpted in ciment fondu and painted by Nicole Farhi MRSS, from Françoise Sagan to Muriel Spark and Samuel Beckett. Farhi models her figures as a response to their identity and work, sculpting after her feelings towards... Read more

Holy Rood

Norman McBeath and Robert Crawford 31 May - 22 Jun 2019 Edinburgh Holy Rood presented a series of 7 photographs by Edinburgh based photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath RSA that ran alongside a long form poem by Robert Crawford. Holy Rood is a translation of the untitled Old English poem ‘The Dream of the Rood’. The collaboration between Crawford and McBeath sees... Read more

The Sublime And The Beautiful

31 May - 20 Jul 2019 Edinburgh The Sublime And The Beautiful was an exhibition of Scottish artworks from the 17th through 21st centuries. Incorporating oil, watercolour, sculpture and printmaking, the exhibited works depicted the sublime or the beautiful in their portrayals of nature, mythology, death and humanity. With work by William Gouw Ferguson, Alexander Runciman, Alexander... Read more

John McLean

Behind the Mirror 3 - 25 May 2019 Edinburgh The work in this show was produced in the face of considerable adversity. John was diagnosed with MSA/P – a nasty, neurological disease with some symptoms similar to Parkinson’s - but continued to visit his studio twice a week to produce a remarkable body of work. At the time he... Read more

In The Frame

Small Paintings and Antique Frames 18 Jan - 16 Feb 2019 Edinburgh An exhibition of small paintings by Scottish artists displayed within groups of antique frames from the 18th-20th centuries. These were a selection of frames from our extensive period frame stock and are for sale. With work by Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir David Wilkie, John Fleming, William Kidd, William Clark of... Read more

Tim Pomeroy

Marble Slate Wood 16 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Edinburgh Based on northern European archaeology, natural history and the everyday designed world, the sculptures on display were made in traditional sculptural materials: stone, wood, slate, and marble. The forms, shapes and ideas are both contemporary and ancient. The Neolithic archaeological finds of Arran inspire Pomeroy. They lend his work a... Read more

John McLean

The Boston Pictures, 1982 12 Oct - 10 Nov 2018 Edinburgh The Boston Pictures, 1982 was an exhibition of works by John McLean, regarded internationally as one of Britain’s most significant abstract painters. In 1982, a teaching job at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School took John McLean to America. Upon arrival, he discovered that his workload was lighter than... Read more

Fleming At Fifty

Radicals, Pioneers and Rebels 15 Aug - 3 Sep 2018 Edinburgh In partnership with The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the exhibition showcased historic nineteenth and early twentieth Scottish paintings in modern and timely contexts, focusing on pioneering female artists, migration and refugee status, and the endless search for truth in art. The exhibition centred around six historic paintings from the Fleming Collection... Read more

Assemblage

Found Objects and Boxed Reliefs 20 Jul - 11 Aug 2018 Edinburgh As part of Edinburgh Art Festival (26 July – 26 August 2018), Assemblage focused on Scottish artists’ contribution to the medium pioneered by Cubism and Surrealism, exploring the significance of found objects and constructed narratives in conveying history and cultural identity. With works by a variety of artists and covering... Read more

Robert Powell

Between the Lost Places 20 Jul - 3 Sep 2018 Edinburgh Powell’s minutely detailed etchings and sculptures often depict satirical and dark humoured scenes, referencing art history, literature and modern society. Between The Lost Places is a meditation on real and imagined topographies, cartography and modern travel, recalling the sensibility of his home city of Edinburgh. A graduate of Edinburgh College... Read more

Ten Paintings By A. R. Sturrock RSA (1885-1953)

15 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 Edinburgh Alick Riddell Sturrock RSA (1885-1953), brought together ten works depicting scenes across Scotland and England. Sturrock had great affinity with rural and country locales; a love reflected in his art. The ten exhibited paintings represent the breadth of Sturrock’s depictions – from farmhouses and cottages to lochs, coastal scenes and... Read more

Will Maclean

Narratives 20 Apr - 12 May 2018 Edinburgh Will Maclean’s art serves as a tangible record and reference to culture, tradition, history and identity. A proponent of box construction art and the examination of found objects, the narratives in his works document the cultural and practical traditions of Scottish Highland and coastal communities. Alongside his academic career at... Read more

Graham Rich

Anchored Under Red Rock 20 Apr - 12 May 2018 Edinburgh Anchored Under Red Rock was an exhibition of works from across the career of Devonshire-based artist Graham Rich. Rich’s works range from large scale installations to small constructed scenes formed from the remnants of boats and objects he has found along the Devonshire coast. Often dwarfed against a backdrop of... Read more

John Byrne

The Boy and the Jabberwock 28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 Edinburgh This exhibition included John Byrne's work in theatre, film and television through preliminary drawings and character sketches from Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys and Writer's Cramp. A highlight among these was a framed storyboard from the film adaptation of The Slab Boys, showcasing Byrne's involvement in the project and the... Read more

Barbara Balmer 1929-2017

28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 Edinburgh Barbara Balmer 1929-2017 was an exhibition of landscapes, still lifes and portraits in oil and watercolour by Barbara Balmer RSA RSW RGI. Balmer first visited Italy in 1973, and the experience had a dramatic effect on her art. She painted large-scale stylised landscapes of the Tuscan landscape, using soft colour... Read more

John Byrne

Rock 'n' Roll 24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society presents Rock ‘n’ Roll, a selling exhibition of works by John Byrne RSA. Central to the exhibition is a large scale oil The Song of the South,which records the link between the thriving textile industry of ninteenth century Paisley and cotton imported from slave plantations in... Read more

Vigorous Imagination

Then and Now 26 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 Edinburgh 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of the ground-breaking exhibition ‘The Vigorous Imagination: New Scottish Art’ presented at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1987 as the lead Edinburgh International Festival art exhibition. In 1987, The Vigorous Imagination showcased the works of 17 young artists who were making waves... Read more

The Glasgow Boys 1870-1910

21 Jul - 28 Aug 2017 Edinburgh In a reaction to the prescribed approach to the Victorian painting of the late nineteenth century, the Glasgow Boys sought a new and ‘modern’ style of painting, where their compositions showed a particular interest in rural realism, in working out-of-doors, and in French-inspired tonal and compositional techniques. This exhibition brought... Read more

Notable

Highlights from the year 23 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 Edinburgh Notable drew together a selection of the most memorable and significant paintings to have passed through the doors of The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh in 2017. The rarity, ingenuity, ambition and technical wizardry of these works – dating from the 17th century to the present – marked them out... Read more

Ornis Logos

Paintings, Prints, Taxidermy 21 Jun - 28 Aug 2017 Edinburgh Ornis Logos: an ornithologically themed exhibition of paintings, prints, taxidermy and design from Scottish artists spanning 300 years. The exhibition included one off prints on canvas by Timorous Beasties, taxidermy by Fiona Dean, and deconstructed taxidermy by Silvy Weatherall. Additional works by William Gouw Ferguson, Alexander Fraser Jnr, Edwin Alexander,... Read more

Muse

26 May - 17 Jun 2017 Edinburgh A small exhibition, Muse, drew together a select group of works that reflect the source of artistic inspiration be it an individual, a character from literature or a group. Central to the show was a large and important work by Sir William Quiller Orchardson of Ophelia. Painted in his singular... Read more

Between Tides

Scotland's working culture of the sea 26 May - 17 Jun 2017 Edinburgh For centuries, artists have been inspired by the sea. A natural boundary, Scotland's coasts and seas are dramatic, varied, highly productive and often awe-inspiring. This exhibition looks at the varied interpretations of a common subject, whether it be natural history, industry, or the people whose lives are determined and shaped... Read more

Folk and Fancy

Tales and Tradition 21 Apr - 20 May 2017 Edinburgh Central to the show was a large-scale painting by James Howe (1780-1836) of All Hallow’s Fair on Calton Hill (c .1817-22). The last All Hallow’s fair was held in 1813 and Howe has cited a depiction of recent history (the fair) in a part of the historic townscape that was... Read more

Hamish Fulton

Walking is a Se7en Letter Word 21 Apr - 20 May 2017 Edinburgh Since the early 1970s Fulton has been labelled sculptor, photographer, land artist and conceptual artist. He, however, describes himself as a ‘walking artist’. In 1971 he made the first of numerous walks as a way to experience a physical engagement between man and nature. The resulting work is a translation... Read more

John Byrne

Moonshine 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2016 Edinburgh Painted in 2016, the works in this exhibition marked a transitional moment in John Byrne's evolving creativity. Still capturing glimpses of familiar faces: the Teddy boy and the blonde from 1950s Paisley, the cityscape with graffiti and smoky towers, the black guy with a fedora, the self-examining artist. However, these... Read more

Oscar Marzaroli

Tenements to Towerblocks 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2016 Edinburgh Marzaroli’s subject matter focuses on the urban decay and regeneration of Glasgow in the 1960s: the men of shipyards and steelworks, street life and children. Described as a documentary photographer, Marzaroli engaged and moved amongst his subjects as an equal, a participant. The photographs record the radical changes that took... Read more

Alexander Nasmyth

His Family and Influence 30 Sep - 12 Nov 2016 Edinburgh 'The founder of the landscape painting of Scotland, by his taste and talents took the lead for many years in the patriotic aim of enriching his native land with the representations of her romantic scenery.' - Sir David Wilkie, describing Alexander Nasmyth in a letter of condolence to his widow.... Read more

Silvy Weatherall

Another Man's Treasure 30 Sep - 12 Nov 2016 Edinburgh Another Man's Treasure, was a wunderkammern of works by Galloway-based artist Silvy Weatherall: paintings, sculptures, disarticulated animal and bird skeletons and their remnants. Silvy finds use for objects that have lost their function or have been discarded: 'the thought of making something out of 'nothing' appeals to me hugely.” Silvy... Read more

Signatures Of Scottish Art

140 Years of the Fine Art Society 10 Jun - 9 Jul 2016 Edinburgh Exhibited during the year that The Fine Art Society celebrated its 140th anniversary, the occasion was marked in our Edinburgh gallery with the exhibition Signatures of Scottish Art. The show included 14 important Scottish paintings from the 17th century to the early 1900s. Works by: Henry Ferguson, David Allan, Allan... Read more

Tim Pomeroy

Contemporary Sacred 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2015 Edinburgh This was Tim Pomeroy’s inaugural exhibition at The Fine Art Society's gallery in Edinburgh, and was the first major show for the artist in Scotland for over a decade. Tim Pomeroy is often referred to as Britain’s foremost stone carver with his works being included in both private and public... Read more

John Bulloch Souter

Drawings, Cartoons and Etchings 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2015 Edinburgh Born in Aberdeen in 1890, Souter attended Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen and The Alan Fraser School of Art, Arbroath. His evident talent won him a travelling scholarship to Europe. He first exhibited at the RA in 1914 and continued to show most years until 1952 when he returned to... Read more