Please join me in the south-west of Scotland when I took about the Scottish Colourists at Wigtown Book Festival on Sunday 4 October 2026.
A Wigtown Book Festival Interview
Wigtown is known as Scotland’s National Book Town. Its Book Festival was founded in 1999 and ‘is one of the UK’s best-loved literary events with a programme of 250-plus events and activities for all ages, including music, theatre and visual arts.’ I shall be talking about my National Galleries of Scotland book, The Scottish Colourists: Art and Life. The Festival has just published an interview with me about the event which you can read at this link.
oil on canvas, 52 x 64cm
Dumfries and Galloway Council: Purchased 1992
The Scottish Colourists in Dumfries and Galloway
Wigtown is in an area of Scotland known as Dumfries and Galloway. The Scottish Colourists F. C. B. Cadell and S. J. Peploe had strong links to the region. Cadell’s great friend and solicitor Charles ‘Ted’ Stewart’s family home, Shambellie House, is in the area, where he was often a guest. Peploe was friends with the artists Jessie M. King and E. A. Taylor who lived in nearby Kirkcudbright and painted in the ‘artists’ town’ and its environs on multiple occasions. The photo above shows me with some of the resultant paintings, which are seen as part of an exhibition of his work which runs at Kirkcudbright Galleries until 4 October 2026. The painting illustrated above is included in my forthcoming book.
Tickets for my talk about the Scottish Colourists at Wigtown Book Festival can be purchased here. For more about Peploe and Kirkcudbright you might like this post. For more about Cadell and Shambellie House read on here.
