This month's featured artist:

William Hanna Clarke

The Tolbooth, Kirkcudbright

The Tolbooth, Kirkcudbright


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Events

William Hanna Clarke (1882-1924)



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
Sandyhills

Sandyhills

James Faed (Snr)


Drying Day Behind the Tolbooth, Kirkcudbright

Drying Day Behind the Tolbooth, Kirkcudbright

James Hamilton McKenzie

Stories

The Glasgow Girls

The Glasgow Girls is a name which has become associated with various women artists, designers and craft workers, who studied at Glasgow School of Art and worked in the city at the end of the 19th and early part of the 20th century.

 

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.

 

Anna and Isobel Hotchkis

Anna and Isobel Hotchkis were born in Crookston, Renfrewshire and both studied art at Glasgow School of Art and also in Munich.  They had a love of travelling but both settled in Kirkcudbright.

 

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.