Until April 28, Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm, Compass Gallery, 178 West Regent Street, Glasgow, free,
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It is 42 years since Marian Leven and Will Maclean met as students at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, and - a married lifetime later - this is their first two-person show. Leven is a sensitive painter whose loose lyrical paintings suggest depths of emotion as well as Scottish wind and weather. She found more time to paint in the early 1990s and won the Noble Grossart prize in 1997. Her recent paintings evoke the haar, the dense sea fog, and the sea-scarred coastal landscape of Scotland.
Maclean is the eminent storyteller of the Highlands, his boxed constructions fusing material and myth to explore traditions of fishing, navigation and sea-based exploration, with the undercurrent of a poignant history of emigration and loss. His recent work recalls the ill-fated Franklin expedition in search of the North West Passage.
The juxtaposition of both artists promises to tease out new meanings to their work, and provide a moving tribute to a
well-loved Scottish partnership.
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