This month's featured artist:

James Faed (Snr)

Sandyhills

Sandyhills


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Events

James Faed Mezzotint Engraver



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
Houses, Kirkcudbright

Houses, Kirkcudbright

Ernest Archibald Taylor


Carrick

Carrick

William Miles Johnston

Stories

James Faed (Senior)

Best known for his engravings James Faed was born at Barlay Mill, Gatehouse in 1821. At the time of his death on 23 September 1911, James Faed was the last survivor of a famour family of artists. 

 

George Henry

George Henry is associated with Kirkcudbright at that period when the town was at the cutting edge of Scottish art.  His Galloway Landscape remains a timeless image of the Galloway countryside.

 

E. A. Hornel

Hornel was one of the foremost "Glasgow Boys", and helped to make Kirkcudbright an artistic centre.  His home, Broughton House, now belongs to the National Trust for Scotland, and many of his paintings can be seen there.

 

David Gauld

Famous today mostly for his paintings of cows and calves, David Gauld was one of the most interesting and influential of the Glasgow Boys.