Spotlight on Contemporary Scottish Artists

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April 8, 2025
Spotlight on Contemporary Scottish Artists

Calum Stevenson

Calum Stevenson is one of the most sought-after artists in figurative painting today. As winner of the SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year 2021/22, his journey from recent graduate to internationally recognised artist was watched by millions. His lyrical rendition of violinist Nicola Benedetti, the former child prodigy and now estabished cultural celebrity, has secured Calum a reputation for technical brilliance and observational wizardry.

Looking at the strength of his work, it would be easy to forget that Calum Stevenson completed his Master at the Glasgow School of Art in 2020, graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design just a year earlier. 

The confidence and probing imagination of his compositions belies the fact that this is an artist in the early stages of his career. Combining a digital creative process with dark pictorial playfulness, his work walks a taut line between the controlled and the feral, between what is factual and what is felt. 

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Robery McAulay

Born on the south side of Glasgow in 1961, Robert trained as an upholsterer before attending art college in the mid 1980's. Since then he has gained recognition for his mixed media works depicting enigmatic scenes often at the edges of human inhabitation. "Many of my paintings are full of symbols or images relating to events, thoughts, ideas from my life, but I am not going to bore the viewer with such details. The viewer will bring all of their own memories with them, and will either connect in some way with what they see or they will not. I like mystery, I do not want everything explained to me, I like to discover for myself."

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Kittie Jones

Born in Cumbria, Kittie moved to Edinburgh to study at Leith School of Art and went on to study Fine Art at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art graduating with an MA in 2008. She now works as a tutor at Leith School of Art whilst continuing to produce her own work for national exhibitions from her studio at Coburg House in Leith.

 
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Fiona Sturrock

Working mainly in acrylics, Fiona has an interest in the old and new, the past and the present, and how these function together within the same space. She is drawn to objects with a history and a story. Old vases and jugs hold the vibrant newness and natural simplicity of the flowers that she favours in her paintings. Fiona paints from a mixture of life scenes, photographs and her imagination. She is influenced by the works of the Colourists and Impressionists, and is hugely inspired by the wealth and richness of contemporary Scottish art. Fiona's work is exhibited by a number of Scottish galleries and is held in private collections in the UK and overseas.

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 Alan Mcgowan

Alan McGowan is an expressive figure painter based in Edinburgh working directly with life models and never photography. His work has been chosen to exhibit at the BP Portrait Award, The Threadneedle Prize for Figurative Art and the Ruth Borchard Self portrait prize, and he was a semi finalist in the SKY Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 . His painting of the figure is as much a celebration of the medium of oil painting as an exploration of the human form. For Alan, painting is like a performance, a process that he likes viewers to be reminded of when they look at his canvases. His work is loaded with expressive brushwork that exhibits a perfect balance of control, technical ability and painterly improvisation.

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Conclusion

As you can see we have a wide range of artists that we represent, and that isn't even looking at our sculptures and pottery, which can be checked out here

If you have any questions about our artists, or how you can get started in collecting art, don't hesitate to get in touch with us.

 

You can visit all our artists on our website >> HERE