An exhibition of Irish landscape watercolours this weekend by Glasgow artist John Taylor comes slightly delayed.
An exhibition of Irish landscape watercolours this weekend by Glasgow artist John Taylor comes slightly delayed.
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Tom Shields
Mr Taylor went to Cill Riallaig, a village restored for use as an artists' colony in a remote peninsula in County Kerry.
The plan was to paint the countryside green with some earthy shades of brown and stone. This proved impossible because of gales, snow and rain. Taylor was as trapped as a Trappist monk in his small cottage. He had to stay in and do still life. A basket of turf, the stove, a table and a chair. He researched the early Christian history and discovered Cill may be a reference to a monastic cell. Taylor thought he might call his collection of Irish cottage still life his Gaun Yer Cell period. Luckily, Taylor went back in good weather and has a rake of watercolours which you can see and maybe purchase this weekend at the Gallowgate Studios in East Campbell Street, Glasgow.
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An exhibition of Irish landscape watercolours this weekend by Glasgow artist John Taylor comes slightly delayed.
Mr Taylor went to Cill Riallaig, a village restored for use as an artists' colony in a remote peninsula in County Kerry.
The plan was to paint the countryside green with some earthy shades of brown and stone. This proved impossible because of gales, snow and rain. Taylor was as trapped as a Trappist monk in his small cottage. He had to stay in and do still life. A basket of turf, the stove, a table and a chair. He researched the early Christian history and discovered Cill may be a reference to a monastic cell. Taylor thought he might call his collection of Irish cottage still life his Gaun Yer Cell period. Luckily, Taylor went back in good weather and has a rake of watercolours which you can see and maybe purchase this weekend at the Gallowgate Studios in East Campbell Street, Glasgow.
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