Glasgow is a City I have lived in for a decade at the time of writing. In 2007, I began to paint the City and it’s iconic architecture very much from my perspective.
Glasgow gets a bad press but much of the “bad stuff” is superceded by it’s people and the quality of parts of the City Centre. Glasgow is full of art galleries, both public and private and there is a wealth of public art on display in the streets. Even some of the lamp-posts would not look out of place in a gallery.
Of all the Glasgow Art I have produces, The Lion and The Unicorn is possibly my personal favourite. Taking the Lions from George Square and bringing them together with the Duke Of Wellington and his traffic cone hat on one canvas. The Lions intrigue me. They guard the Cenotaph but instead of looking like some artefact from decades ago, they are sculpted in such away that they look utterly contemporary, and I love that “old meets new” feeling about the monument.
The Duke Of Wellington has become a part of Glasgow Iconography and tourists love him. I love him too. I think that his traffic cone hat sums up the good natured part of Glaswegians, the humour and lets you know that this City although not perfect, really does have a heart – a great big funny one at that.
Painting Dimensions: 36 x 24 inches
Medium: Oil on deep edged cotton box canvas
Original Artwork Sold
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