This month's featured artist:

Charles Oppenheimer

Kirkcudbright under Snow

Kirkcudbright under Snow


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The Glasgow Girls



The Project

Dumfries and Galloway can boast a rich artistic history. Landscape and light have combined to lure painters to live and work in the area for at least 200 years.

The Artists’ Footsteps website documents the landscape paintings, their artists and the places that inspired their work. For inclusion the painting must be of a Dumfries and Galloway subject and by a deceased artist.

By its nature this is a long-term project. However, thanks to continuous feedback from around the world the database already contains over 800 art works by more than 200 artists and new information continues to be added.  Further assistance is always welcome and can be provided through the "Contact us" link.

 

Although the project currently covers landscape paintings only this may be expanded in the future.

 


Supported by Cultural Services Dumfries and Galloway, Leader Plus, Dumfries and Galloway Council, South of Scotland European Partnership
The Tolbooth

The Tolbooth

Alick Riddell Sturrock


Galloway Farm

Galloway Farm

Ernest Archibald Taylor

Stories

Christian Jane (Chris) Fergusson

Chris Fergusson was born and lived in Dumfries, but had many connections to the Kirkcudbright artists. She painted scenes throughout the region in her individual style.

 

William Stewart MacGeorge

Born in Castle Douglas in 1861 William Stewart MacGeorge studied art in Edinburgh and Antwerp.  Returning to Galloway he became a leading member of the Kirkcudbright School. 

 

 

James Paterson

Born in 1854, James Paterson moved to Moniaive in the late eighteen eighties following his marriage.  One of the Glasgow Boys, his paintings of the local area were to become some of his finest works.

 

William Bruce Ellis Ranken

Painter in oils, watercolour and pastel of landscapes, portraits, interiors and still life. In the period 1904 - 1919 painted subjects associated with Dumfriesshire and in particular Dalswinton.