Duncan Shanks Sketchbooks

Leading Scottish landscape painter, Duncan Shanks, has made a major gift to The Hunterian of his entire output of sketchbooks from the past 45 years. This important addition to our collection of Scottish landscape art has been catalogued, photographed and conserved and a selection forms this special focus display. A true landscape artist, Shanks presents us not with the familiar and predictable face of Nature but enables us to crouch low or soar high, to see it as we have never seen it before. His 104 sketchbooks, gifted to The Hunterian over the past two years, have been the anchors of his life as an artist. This exhibition seeks to open up this unique body of work that will display his ability to astonish with colour and form, communicate his desire to share the feeling of being at one with Nature, and offer a glimpse into the increasingly varied functions of his sketchbooks over the past five decades.

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Website
www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/focus/duncanshankssketchbooks/#d.en.371486

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//sc000244?id=EVENT515517