Glen Scouller RSW RGI: A Broad Brush

8th - 26th September 2020

Glen Scouller RSW RGI: A Broad Brush

An exhibition of new paintings, Glen Scouller creates intuitive and expressive Scottish landscapes and still lifes.

Scouller's work is based on direct observation from nature, painting en plein air in and around his rural home in Ayrshire and developing larger works in the studio. Scouller's passion is for colour and light with a strong bold approach to his subject matter. Radiant colour, light and compositional skill are inherent qualities in Scouller's visual communication.

Unable to travel to Collioure, in the south west of France, the subject matter for this exhibition switched from France to the confines of Scouller’s garden and studio floor which was the backdrop for a series of large still lives.

However the subject matter or location, this exhibition would always have been entitled ‘A Broad Brush’. With Scouller’s objective for this exhibition to produce paintings which are looser, bolder, simpler and more spontaneous, he decided to paint the entire show with a single brush in order to convey this.

Using a larger 12 hog hair brush (or to be more precise a handful of number 12 brushes) as his instrument of choice the majority of the paintings in this exhibition were produced this way. This is something which Scouller wishes to develop with his practice in the future perhaps with even larger brushes next time.

Glen Scouller was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1968 to 1973. In 1972 he won the Royal Scottish Academy Painting Award and in 1973, the Post Graduate Study Award, the WO Hutcheson Prize for Drawing and Travelling Scholarship to Greece. He was also awarded the Lauder Award, Glasgow Art Club and Scottish Amicable Award, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts in 1987. Scouller has had over 40 solo exhibitions since 1977 in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, East Lothian, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Truro, Johannesburg and Cape Town. He is also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. He was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1989, from which he received the David Cargill Award in 2006, and of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1997. His works are held in a number of public and private collections worldwide, including The Scottish Office in Edinburgh, De Beers and the First National Bank of South Africa.