Travel: Take a trip "Doon the Watter"
A trip "doon the watter" – aka the River Clyde – on a paddle steamer to Helensburgh, Gourock, Largs, Rothesay, Millport and Dunoon was once the highlight of the year for many Glaswegians of yore.
Shades of George Orwell in stunning debut from Scottish writer Rachelle Atalla
THEY say never judge a book by its cover, but I took one look at the livid red cover of The Pharmacist, and I wanted to dive inside.
Galleries: Society of Scottish Artists is back with 123rd show
In 1991, the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) marked its centenary year by publishing a book which told its story. As the redoubtable Cordelia Oliver, former art critic of The Glasgow Herald, as it was then called, wrote in an introductory essay, the original object of the Society as laid out in 1891, was "… to foster a taste for Art by instituting an Annual Exhibition of different Schools and to facilitate the intercourse of those connected with, and interested in Art."
Galleries: The pioneering John Mackechnie is still true to his original vision
When John Mackechnie studied drawing and painting in the Glasgow School of Art's (GSA) famous Mackintosh Building in the late 1960s, he found himself out of step with the traditional teaching in place at the school.
Galleries: Art lovers can get their fix in the most unusual places
It's Sunday morning and despite having been on gazillions of Zoom calls over the last 18 months, I begin my conversation with artists Chao-Ying Rao (aka Betty) and Robert McCormack on mute. The story of many lives in the last year…
Galleries: An explosion of colour and life
When you walk into an exhibition of paintings and feel energy bouncing off the canvases and straight into the unconscious part of your brain which affects your mood, you know that something is working.
Galleries: The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Collection
You generally get the measure of a person by the company they keep. In the case of painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, who lived between the fishing town of St Ives in Cornwall and St Andrews, the company she kept was art royalty.
Galleries: New exhibition is inspired by 18th-century portraits
The painter Alison Watt has spent a lifetime looking. Not glancing, the way the rest of us tend to survey the world, but really looking. On the few occasions, I've met her, in person, there is a quiet stillness about the way Watt carries herself and in the way she talks. A bright shimmering intelligence which surrounds her like an aura.
