MEN CAN'T PAINT FLOWERS: DISCUSS Let's start with 'Still Life with Flowers' by Denis Peploe (1914-93), son of Scottish Colourist S. J. Peploe. Just look at that brushwork! It is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull in their Scottish Paintings & Sculpture auction on 5 June 2025. Info: bit.ly/3Zu0iE7

'Border Farm in Spring Sunshine' leads a group of works depicting the Scottish Borders by Anne Redpath (1895-1965) which are to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull on 5 June 2025. You can view them for free from 12 noon on Sunday and you can read about them here: bit.ly/3HwUhju #anneredpath #scottishart

Works by Elizabeth Blackadder from the collection of gallerist Gillian Raffles will be on display at Lyon & Turnbull in London and Glasgow over the next month. They include 'Self-portrait with Red Lacquer Table, Kyoto' of 1988. Raffles showed Blackadder's work for over 30 years. Info: bit.ly/4mr5ouF

FINDING A HOME: I was delighted to discover that Lucie Aldridge's 'Garden' rag rug, sold by Lyon & Turnbull last year, is part of @fryartgallery.bsky.social's exhibition 'Finding a Home at the Fry', curated by Ella Ravilious. The show runs until 26 October 2025. Info: bit.ly/4dCykMe #greatbardfield

BANK HOLIDAY INSPIRATION: How about recreating this scene, 'A Summer Idyll' by Glasgow Boy George Henry RSA RSW (1858-1943) over your Bank Holiday weekend? It is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull in their Scottish Paintings & Sculpture auction on 5 June 2025. Info: bit.ly/3ZsoBlt #bankholiday

THE JOY OF SUMMER: The glorious weather may have broken but it continues in 'Summer Flowers' by Mary Armour RSA RSW (1902-2000), which is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull in their Scottish Paintings & Sculpture auction on 5 June 2025. Info: bit.ly/45otWhz #summer #womanartist #scottishart

FIND THE PICTURE: I followed in Louise Rayner (1829-1924)’s footsteps to where she created the watercolour ‘The Royal Mile, Edinburgh’. The photo shows the location now. Rayner’s work is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull on 5 June 2025. Info: bit.ly/4j3dnLj #scottishart #royalmile

Don’t miss Susan Moore’s talk ‘Anne Estelle Rice: An American Colourist?’ at Dovecot Studios on 31 May, to accompany their & Fleming Collection’s show ‘The Scottish Colourists: Radical Pespectives’: bit.ly/44thzQZ Image: Rice’s Seascape with Sailing Boats in Hull Uni collection (c) Artist’s Estate

A GLASGOW BOY INKIRKCUDBRIGHT: The Stonebreaker of 1895 by Glasgow Boy James Guthrie, sold by Lyon & Turnbull last year, will be the subject of a panel discussion between James Holloway, Patrick Bourne and Frances Fowle at Kirkcudbright Galleries on 30 May 2025 in-person and online: bit.ly/44RmbRh

FIND THE PAINTING: I followed in Charles Oppenheimer’s footsteps in a gloriously sunny Kirkcudbright this morning, to find the scene he painted in ‘Waterside, Kirkcudbright’ which is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull in their Scottish Paintings & Sculpture auction on 5 June 2025. #modernscottishart

ART DECO IN SCOTLAND: ‘My’ beloved Fountainbridge Library, Edinburgh is in Bruce Peter’s great new book ‘Art Deco in Scotland’ published 100 years after the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industries Modernes held in Paris, from which the ‘Art Deco’ name derives.

I'm afraid my talk 'A Century of the Scottish Colourists' for Kirkcudbright Galleries on 10 May 2025 is fully booked, but you can enjoy 'Kirkcudbright', c.1919 by S.J. Peploe in the Fleming Collection exhibition 'The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives' at Dovecot Studios until 26 June 2025.

Join me and Charles Oppenheimer's 'Waterside, Kirkcudbright' at Kirkcudbright Galleries on Saturday 10 May 2025 for a free Lyon & Turnbull valuation day. Free appointments can be booked here: bit.ly/4m89d7w #kirkcudbright #artiststown #modernscottishart

ONLINE & IN PERSON SCOTTISH COLOURIST TALK: Pls join me on-line or in person when I give the talk A Century of the Scottish Colourists for @nationalgalleries.bsky.social on 15 July 2025. Online info: bit.ly/4juBqnF In person info: bit.ly/44iv6Lf Image: SJ Peploe, Tulips, The Blue Jug, c1919 NGS coll

SCOTLAND’S WONDERLAND: This poster is one of three that the Scottish Colourist FCB Cadell designed for David MacBrayne Ltd in 1928. It features Cow’s Rock on Iona and is being offered by Lyon & Turnbull on 30 April 2025. Info: bit.ly/4jV2jRq #iona #fcbcadell #scottishcolourists

AN ARTIST’S LOFT: It was great to visit Magda Salvesen at the Jon Schueler Foundation in the New York loft where he wirked at the end of his long & prolific career. Just look at the paintings she put out for us! The Foundation is a great example of how to run an Artist’s Estate: www.jonschueler.org

Join me on tour with the Scottish Colourists as I give the talk 'A Century of the Scottish Colourists' in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Kirkcudbright during 2025 and 2026. Info: bit.ly/42FrakW Image: Leslie Hunter, The Beach, Juan-les-Pins, 1927, Gift of Eric Anderson to the National Galleries of Scotland.

Sorry, my talk A Century of the Scottish Colourists for the Fleming Collection Radical Perspectives show at Dovecot, supported by Lyon & Turnbull, has sold out. However, there are sure to be returns & no shows: bit.ly/40W0U6A Image: FCB Cadell, The White Shirt, c.1922 in McManus Art Gallery coll.

Please come to my talk 'A Century of the Scottish Colourists' to accompany the Fleming Collection 'Radical Perspectives' show at Dovecot on 22 April 2025, supported by Lyon & Turnbull & inc J D Fergusson's The Blue Lamp, 1912 in the City Art Centre (c) Culture Perth & Kinross. Info: bit.ly/43tNpMU

A MAJESTIC HEAD: Henry Moore’s Study for Head of Queen no.2 of 1952/72 is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull on 2 May 2025. It will be on view at the Mall Galleries in London 29 April - 2 May 2025 and all are welcome. Info: bit.ly/42gS9Vk #henrymoore #modernbritishart #modernbritishsculpture

From her Mercury Gallery on The Mound, Edinburgh, Gillian Raffles championed contemporary Scottish art, particularly by Elizabeth Blackadder. Raffles’ private collection is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull from 1 May 2025 including Blackadder’s Still Life with Lollipops of 2000. Info: bit.ly/3EqJ6Ib

Nancy in a Feather Hat (The Artist’s Daughter), 1910 by William Nicholson is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull on 1 May 2025 and has been requested by Pallant House Gallery for inclusion in their forthcoming William Nicholson exhibition (22 November 2025 - 31 May 2026). Info: bit.ly/43N3XzD

A SCOT IN LONDON: Great to see ‘Blue Beads’ of 1910 by the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson on display at Tate Britain, hanging next to Henri Matisse and amongst Vanessa Bell, Jacob Epstein, Mark Gertler, Duncan Grant, Walter Sickert and Matthew Smith. #scottishcolourists

'Bouleternere', c.1925 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh shows his marvellous skills as a watercolourist. It was included in the Memorial Exhibition of his work held at the McLellan Galleries, Glasgow in 1933 and is to be offered by Lyon & Turnbull on 17 April 2025. Info: bit.ly/42viHSw

It was an honour to be on the rostrum to sell Rembrandt’s The Three Trees etching of 1643 for £225,200 (inc BP) at Lyon & Turnbull yesterday. It was part of the Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection fundraising auction for The Hugo Burge Foundation. Info: bbc.in/4hr7p6j

From palette to board: Near Hume is 1 of 3 paintings on board by Gary Anderson in the Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection Lyon & Turnbull auction on 19 March 2025.The right-hand image is Gary's palette which evokes the creative process involved. Info: bit.ly/4hJdwTw

'Cryptic Form No.1', 1980 is one of three works by Robert Adams in the 'Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection' Lyon & Turnbull fundraising auction for the Hugo Burge Foundation on 19 March 2025. The sale preview has now opened and all are welcome. Info: bit.ly/3XR8xJm

As featured by BBC Radio 4, The Scotsman & The Herald, Rembrandt’s 1643 The Three Trees etching will be on view at Lyon & Turnbull as part of the Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection auction preview, which is fundraising for the Hugo Burge Foundation. Info: bit.ly/4bQgBjc

Yesterday was Alberto Burri’s birthday and from Saturday you can see his ‘Trittico A 1-3’ of 1973 in the preview of ‘Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection’, a Lyon & Turnbull fundraising auction for the Hugo Burge Foundation. Info: bit.ly/43HuUoc

This is how we set up to photograph Anne Redpath’s ‘St Monan’s, Fife’ watercolour of 1952 in The Tower at the Hugo Burge Foundation. It is part of the Lyon & Turnbull ‘Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection’ fundraising auction on 19 March 2025. Info: bit.ly/3PwZKI3

This was the set-up to film James Fox, Creative Director of the Hugo Burge Foundation, talking abt the Lyon & Turnbull Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection fundraising auction of 19 March. Watch it: bit.ly/3DvOLfF & visit the sale preview from 15 March: bit.ly/3PwZKI3

PURITY OF FORM: 'Tides' and 'Artemis', white marble on grey marble plinths by Yoko Kubrick, are part of 'Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection', a Lyon & Turnbull auction on 19 March 2025 to raise funds for the Hugo Burge Foundation. Info: bit.ly/3PwZKI3 #womanartist

The Scottish Colourist J D Fergusson was #BOTD in 1874. Find out about him in a lecture I am giving for the Fleming Collection & Dovecot Studios on 22 April 2025. Info: bit.ly/43tNpMU Image: Fergusson's Jonqils and Silver, 1905 in Fleming Collection (c) Culture Perth & Kinross #modernscottishart

A SCOTTISH COLOURIST BIRTHDAY: John Duncan Fergusson was #BOTD in 1874. You can find out about him in a blog I have written for @nationalgalleries.bsky.social here: bit.ly/40RK4p6 Image: Fergusson's In the Patio: Margaret Morris, 1925 in NGS collection (c) Culture Perth & Kinross #scottishcolourists

Kyffin Williams' Light above Crib Goch is in the Lyon & Turnbull auction Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Foundation on 19 March. Other images by him of it can be found in Government Art Coll, @librarywales.bsky.social, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & others: bit.ly/4hlXr5T

HAPPY SATURDAY! I challenge you not to feel happy after looking at 'An Homage to Yves Klein, Multicolour' of 2012 by Takashi Murakami. This joyful lithograph is being offered by Lyon & Turnbull in their Prints & Multiples sale on 26 March 2025. Info: bit.ly/4bAIc81

Alison Watt's show From Light is now open at Pitzhanger, London & her works Stocking & Frances will be on view at Lyon & Turnbull 15-18 March 2025 as part of 'Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection', a fundraising auction for the Hugo Burge Foundation. Info: bit.ly/3PwZKI3

Camden Town Group member Robert Polhill Bevan was a skilled horseman and printmaker. Horse Dealers at the Barbican (Barbican no.2), 1921 is one of eight of his prints, by descent from the Artist's Estate, being offered Lyon & Turnbull's Prints & Multiples sale on 26 March 2025. Info: bit.ly/4hccjDR

Maquette for Seed (Eden Project), 2007 by Peter Randall-Page is in the Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection Lyon & Turnbull auction on 19 March 2025 raising funds for the Hugo Burge Foundation. It is seen here in their grounds in an image by Alex Robson: bit.ly/41LoZ0h

The beautiful ‘Blue Twist’ of 2021 by Matthew Chambers is part of ‘Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection’, a Lyon & Turnbull fundraising auction for the Hugo Burge Foundation on 19 March 2025. It is seen here in a photo by Alex Robson. Info: bit.ly/4btcbPa

‘Still Life with Bottle’, c.1912, by Samuel John Peploe, has been lent from a private collection to the Fleming Collection and Dovecot Studios ‘The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives’ exhibition. Catch this stunning example of modern Scottish art while you can! Info: bit.ly/40W0U6A

‘Mull Silver Birch’ by Caroline Hepburne-Scott, Ruskin Pottery ware and an English George II dowry chest: all feature in the Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection auction being held by Lyon & Turnbull on 19 March to raise funds for the Hugo Burge Foundation: bit.ly/3PwZKI3

Whilst researching the Scottish Colourist F C B Cadell I was delighted to find his painting 'The Rose and the Lacquer Screen, now in @nationalgalleries.bsky.social collection, in the 1937 Society of Eight exhibition catalogue. You can read my NGS blog about the painting here: bit.ly/41ktZYk

Behind the scenes photographing works in the ‘Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection’ Lyon & Turnbull auction on 19 March 2025, to raise funds for the Hugo Burge Foundation. This shot features ‘Braz Mark’ by Brian Willsher (1930-2010), lot 253 in the sale: bit.ly/41BeBIf

St Monan’s, Fife, 1952 by Anne Redpath is part of the Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection auction being held by Lyon & Turnbull on 19 March 2025, to raise funds for the Hugo Burge Foundation. I photographed the scene as it is today. Info: bit.ly/4bq6yRN

LAST CHANCE TO SEE: Glasgow Boy James Guthrie’s The Stonebreakers of c.1886/1923, sold by Lyon & Turnbull last year, is on loan to Kirkcudbright Galleries before it goes to its new home abroad. Info: bit.ly/41vcd5P #glasgowboys #jamesguthrie #scottishart #scottishpainting

Whilst in Kirkcudbright yesterday, I found myself in the Scottish Colourist S. J. Peploe's painting 'Kirkcudbright Street Corner' of 1917 in @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social collection. #scottishcolourists #sjpeploe #samueljohnpeploe #modernscottishart #modernscottishpainting #scottishart #kirkcudbright

MAKERS & CREATORS: North End of Iona by John Guthrie Spence Smith, seen here in Gary Anderson's studio, is part of the Makers & Creators: Selected Works from the Hugo Burge Collection auction to be held by Lyon & Turnbull on 19 March to raise funds for the Hugo Burge Foundation. Info bit.ly/3PwZKI3

HAPPINESS IN THE ARCHIVE: Saturday research joy courtesy of a spread of Scottish Colourist F C B Cadell exhibition catalogues. Libraries are AMAZING. #libraries #lovelibraries #research #archive #scottishcolourists #fcbcadell #modernscottishart

FERGUSSON IN FASHION: Do I spy ‘Montgeron’ of 1909 by the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson (in Kelvingrove Art Gallery collection) in this Autumn 2025 menswear look by S S Daley? I love it! Photo: Umberto Fratini Painting: courtesy Culture Perth & Kinross #scottishcolourists