Ardnamurchan

£2.95

230 x 115 mm long card with envelope - blank inside.

Ref. TL161

Artist:

John Cunningham

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230 x 115 mm long card with envelope - blank inside.

Ref. TL161

About the artist

John Cunningham RGID.Litt.1926 - 1998.

John Cunningham was born in Lanarkshire, the eldest of a family of seven. He attended the Glasgow School of Art and subsequently held various teaching posts. He was appointed to the Glasgow School of Art in 1967 and became a Senior Lecturer before his retirement in 1985 when he decided to devote himself to painting full-time.

Throughout his painting career, he concentrated mainly on the genres of landscape, seascape and still life. He worked internationally in France, Spain, Italy and Ireland, returning to favoured locations. Still, the greatest number of his landscapes and seascapes are of the West Coast of Scotland, especially on the Ardnamurchan peninsula - on the most westerly point of mainland Scotland, and the island of Colonsay.

In his lifetime he was a highly acclaimed and respected artist and since he died in 1998 his reputation has continued to grow. Art historians now see him in a direct line of tradition that stretches beyond the exuberant, strong and precisely balanced work of the Scottish Colourists to the immediate engagement with Scotland’s nature, scene and ethos one finds in the world of William McTaggart at the end of the nineteenth century. But nothing about his paintings is nostalgic or retrospective; they are rather instantaneously engaging and enlarging of vision and appetite for Scotland’s characteristic landscapes, seascapes and the poised, attentive qualities of the still lifes - the particular pleasures of linen, furniture, crockery, fruit and wine.

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