This month's featured artist:

James Faed (Snr)

Sandyhills

Sandyhills


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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.

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
Lairdmannoch

Lairdmannoch

William Robson


Kirkcudbright

Kirkcudbright

William Robson

Stories

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. 

 

 

Henry Joseph Moule

Born in Dorset in 1825, Henry Joseph Moule moved to Gatehouse of Fleet in the early 1860s. 

He married in 1862 and remained in Gatehouse with his wife and four children for 15 years, painting many local views.

 

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.

 

Edward Arthur Walton

A leading member of the Glasgow Boys, who painted in both England and Scotland, E A Walton came to know Galloway towards the end of his life.  First and foremost a landscape painter, atmosphere of a place was as important to Walton as location.