The Thread that Pulls - the Visual Arts Scotland Biennial at the Royal Scottish Academy made its public opening last Saturday. You are warmly invited to touch upon my obsessive entanglement with light
6 December 2025 - 2 January 2026
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Last exhibition/art recommendation (for now!). Andy Goldsworthy at the RSA at the Mound. A must see... although I'd hoped there would be more photos of his larger outdoor stone installations. I'll still definitely go again though!
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Come along with me to Modern Two at the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. This time I was here to see exhibitions of work by Iain Hamilton Finlay and Eduardo Paolozzi
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Thigibh comhla rium gu Modern Two, Gailearaidh nan Nuadh-ealan an seo ann an Dùn Èideann gus taisbeanaidhean Iain Hamilton Finlay agus Eduardo Paolozzi fhaicinn.
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English-born painter John Everett Millais portrays a young woman plainly dressed in the soft country colors of harvest time, holding a basket of hand-picked violet flowers conveying the innocence and fragility of youth. The model was budding actress Beatrice Buckstone, granddaughter of actor and comedian John Baldwin Buckstone. She posed for three of Millais’ works and was so noted for her beauty that the artist’s son John Guille Millais wrote years later, “Her face was simply perfect, both in form and color, and nothing could be more charming than the contrast between her bright golden hair and those big, blue-grey Irish eyes that peeped at you from under the shade of the longest black lashes that ever adorned the human face. The pictures for which she sat in no way exaggerated her beauty; they were but portraits of her own sweet self.” It is a work with a very sentimental atmosphere. The title is taken from the long-forgotten love poem “Catarina to Camoens” by female English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The painting’s first owner was Everett Gray, the youngest brother of Millais’s wife, Effie, and it originally hung at the Gray family home, Bowerswell, near Perth, Scotland. Sir John Everett Millais was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, which sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colors and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. In his life, he experimented and matured through different styles, but it was only through his later works that he became successful and, as a result, was one of the wealthiest artists of his day.
“Sweetest eyes were ever seen” by John Everett Millais (English) - Oil on canvas / 1881 - National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh) #womeninart #art #oilopainting #JohnEverettMillais #Millais #artwork #womensart #EnglishArtist #Pre-RaphaeliteBrotherhood #Pre-Raphaelite #NationalGalleriesofScotland
In case you missed this year's special 'Turner in January' exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland, join us for a wee virtual tour-
www.weewalkingtours.com/post/turner
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The Rhine near Andernach ca. 1817. Particularly attracted by this watercolour (Henry Vaughan Bequest (1900) to National Galleries of Scotland) of the Rhine prior to the Industrial Revolution; today a busy part of the Rhine with many barges and passenger/tourist boats. Photo from the exhibition; see next photo for the explanatory plaque
explanatory plaque, Rhine watercolour, in National Gallery of Ireland. Turner Watercolours (on loan from National Galleries of Scotland; an exchange programme with NGS; Vaughan Bequest to NGI are exhibited in the NGS this year, 2025, 250 y since the birth of Turner)
Visited today Turner watercolours in @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social, an annual January event. This year special: #Turner from #Vaughan bequest to #NationalGalleriesOfScotland on show, 250 y after his birth. Mainly idyllic scenes & landscapes from pre-Industrial Revolution GB & Mitteleuropa featured
The National Galleries of Scotland: Portrait 🖼️
In the heart of Edinburgh, the Portrait Gallery is dedicated to exploring various aspects of the Scottish story through art and imagery of the land and it’s people.
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This is the BEST * SSA (2024 ) @natgalleriessco i've seen in years...☆♡☆ @franktoartist Congratulations!☆ @janegardinerpainter @fionawilsonart @sarahkkd @rowenacomrie @jameslistersinfield ☆ Well done to SSA and all involved. ☆ #ssa #societyofscottishartists #3030 #nationalgalleriesofscotland ☆
View of the decorative lobby with a christmas 🎄 tree
Two black puddings made from human blood
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Looking festive 🎄.
Much debate in the pub after if eating black pudding from your own blood is ok or not? 😱
Print of the city of Edinburgh from the north west shows Edinburgh Castle and beyond Arthur's seat.
Wondering, in fact, if we're on the walled road to the right in Andrew Wilson, 'View of Edinburgh from the North West...' (1795)? (Image from #NationalGalleriesOfScotland, cc license).
#JohnSingerSargent, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1864-1932) 1892, National Galleries of Scotland. Purchased with the aid of the Cowan Smith Bequest Fund 1925.
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A man smiling out from an oil painting, he holds a big green white stick of kale over his right shoulder, smiling eyes and face, dark brown bushy hair, eyebrows and beard . He wears a threadbare jacket with elbows worn through, old shirt and belt underneath
#TheCromartieFool #Fool #Jester #Kale #Kail #RichardWaitt #NationalGalleriesOfScotland #Portrait #Scotland #Scottish #Halloween #Samhain #Samhuinn #Unveiled #HistoryMystery #UnveiledEdinburgh #UnveiledGames
