Please join me when I give a Scottish Colourists Festive Season of Talks during November and December 2026. I will be discussing my National Galleries of Scotland book, The Scottish Colourists: Art and Life, in-person in Cove, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London and on-line.
Starting in Glasgow
Firstly, I will be talking in-person to the Friends of Glasgow Museums in the city on 17 November 2026. For information and to book tickets please follow this link. The Friends organisation was established in 1944. Amongst other achievements, it purchased George Leslie Hunter’s portrait of Dr Tom J. Honeyman of about 1930, with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund, for Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in 2006. Honeyman was appointed Director of the Glasgow art galleries in 1939.
oil on canvas, 61 x 50.8cm
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow:
Purchased with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Friends of Glasgow Museums, 2006
Continuing to Edinburgh
I will be continuing on to Edinburgh where I shall be talking to the Friends of the National Galleries of Scotland on 18 November 2026. The in-person event has sold out, but a waiting list is in operation, which you can join via this link. The event will be livestreamed and you can book a ticket to join in on-line at this link. Having worked at the Galleries for 22 years and as the commissioners of the Scottish Colourists book, this event is particularly special to me.
(c) National Galleries of Scotland
Moving on to London
The next event in my Scottish Colourists festive season of talks is part of the London St Andrew’s Book Festival. It is an in-person ‘in conversation’ with Fiona Lindsay on 21 November 2026. You can find out more and book tickets at this link. Having championed the work of the Scottish Colourists for a quarter of a century, I am delighted to promote them beyond the country of their birth.
Over to the West
The next stop in my series of talks is at Cove on the Rosneath peninsula in Scotland. I will be talking in-person ‘in conversation’ with Jan Patience as part of the Cove & Kilcreggan Book Festival on 29 November 2026. For information and to book tickets, please click on this link. F. C. B. Cadell’s great patron, the Glasgow ship-owner George Service, lived in Cove so it is an area of significance for the Scottish Colourists.
oil on panel, 46 x 38cm
Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine:
Purchased with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and the National Fund for Acquisitions 2016
Back to Edinburgh
I return to Edinburgh on 1 December 2026 to give a combined in-person and on-line talk for Lyon & Turnbull. Both options are free but ticketed; please sign up to the former here and to the latter here. I joined Lyon & Turnbull in 2021 and the talk will take place amidst the preview of the 3 December 2026 Scottish Paintings & Sculpture auction which features works by all four of the Scottish Colourists.
And finally for the Scottish Society for Art History
My Scottish Colourists festive season of talks concludes with an on-line event for the Scottish Society for Art History on 8 December 2026. You can find out about it and book a place at this link. I am a member of the society’s committee, though I took a sabbatical whilst writing the Colourist book. It is nice to return in this way! I do hope you can join me on one of the above dates. You can buy The Scottish Colourists: Art and Life from the National Galleries of Scotland here.
For more about the Scottish Colourists, you might enjoy this post, this blog and this is where the book began.
