The Strathearn Gallery in Crieff

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Please click on the Artist's names below to see examples of their work. Some of which are available in our current and previous exhibitions. Contact the gallery to check availability.


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chris bushe rsw

Chris was born in 1958 in Aberfeldy and studied at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen from 1980-84 graduating with a B.A. (Hons) Fine Art.
 
Painting professionally since graduating, Chris has shown his work at many solo and group exhibitions throughout Scotland and England, mainly in London.  He also shows his work regularly at the RSW, RSA and Aberdeen Artists exhibitions.  His work is held in many Public and Private Collections at home and abroad.  In 1998, Chris was awarded The Glasgow Arts Club Fellowship prize at the RSW Exhibition at the RSA in Edinburgh and in the same year, at the Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsman annual exhibition, he received the Russell Flint Trust Award.  In 1999 he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW).  He was also awarded the McManus Galleries, Arts and Heritage prize at the RSW’s annual exhibition in 2003.

Chris is usually known for his mediterrainian landscapes, travelling several times a year returning to his studio to reproduce the intense light and colour.  Over the last couple of years, Chris has returned to painting in Scotland.
 
The paint is applied in a variety of ways; hands, sticks, card, palette knives and a range of brushes.  It is washed on, overlaid and scraped back.  The push and pull of the material is fundamental to the working method and the use of oil paint is as important for its malleable qualities as for its ability to hold saturated pigment.

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