This month's featured artist:

William Miles Johnston

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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.

In the Artists’ Footsteps attempts to document 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. Although a great deal of information has been collected, it is hoped that those viewing the website will be able to contribute to its development. Any assistance is 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
Galloway Farm

Galloway Farm

Ernest Archibald Taylor


The Lookout, Kirkcudbright

The Lookout, Kirkcudbright

Mary Russell Thew

Stories

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.

 

Jessie M King

Best known for her original and imaginative talent in illustration.  She purchased a house in Kirkcubright and with her husband Ernest Taylor returned there in 1915 where they became key members of the artistic community.

 

Charles Oppenheimer

Charles Oppenheimer first came to Kirkcudbright in 1909 following a chance meeting with E A Taylor in Manchester. Over the next 50 years Oppenheimer remained a leading member of Kirkcudbright's artistic community.

 

William Robson

Born in 1863 William Robson was bequeathed Dalreoch estate in Ayrshire, the income from this enabled him to devote his life to art.  With his family he moved to Kirkcudbright in 1904 living an active life in the community until his death in 1950