29 March - 3 May 2026

Gallery & Website PV: Saturday 28 March, 12-4pm

Collection launches online Saturday 28 March at 4pm.

Husband and wife artists Ewen McAslan and Isobel Colville forged parallel careers that carried them from Glasgow to Canada and back to the East Neuk. Both trained at Glasgow School of Art, and Ewen went on to become a founding member of the Glasgow Group, shaping a generation of Scottish painters. After years abroad, they returned to Pittenweem in 1994, continuing to paint and exhibit side by side. Ewen's final series - a study of Canadian mountains - marked the Glasgow Group's 50th anniversary, while Isobel remained a vibrant, community-minded presence, exhibiting into her late eighties. Their shared life reflects a creative partnership defined by independence, conviction and a lifelong commitment to making art.

This joint collection of over forty works offers a distilled survey of their period of experimental and abstract work.

Private viewings available by appointment. Contact us to arrange a video consultation

Available exclusively from www.vikiknott.com and our Edinburgh gallery.

On view from 29 March - 3 May 2026

All works are unique and subject to prior sale.

EWEN McASLAN | Scottish 1936-2008

Ewen McAslan studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1953 to 1957, it was there that he met and bonded with James Spence, Anda Patterson, Alasdair Gray, Ian McCulloch and Jack Knox. Together they would go on to found the Glasgow Group, which was forged amid frustration at lack of opportunities for young artists. He married fellow artist Isobel and in 1967 they moved to Canada, where he taught English Literature, Fine Art and wrote up the art curriculum for Winnipeg schools. They returned permanently to Scotland in 1994. His final exhibition was a study of Canadian Mountains which he showed at the 50th anniversary exhibition of the Glasgow Group.

ISOBEL COLVILLE (McAslan)

Isabella 'Isobel' Colville McAslan (1935-2025). Artist and teacher. 

Born in Glasgow and educated at the Glasgow School of Art, Isobel's artistic journey took her across continents. After working in the United States and France, she returned to Scotland and in 1959 married fellow Scottish artist Ewen McAslan.

In 1967, with three children in tow, the couple moved to Canada. Isobel taught art classes at the University of British Columbia before joining the Fine Arts Department at Douglas College in 1971. She became a passionate advocate for women in the arts, founding Women's Week at Kwantlen College and publishing essays on women artists.

Retiring in 1994, Isobel and Ewen returned to Scotland, settling in Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife. Here they continued to paint and exhibit at the annual Pittenweem Arts Festival. After Ewen's death in 2008, Isobel helped establish the Pittenweem Community Library and returned to exhibiting, with a solo show at the Weem Gallery in 2022.

Sociable, uncompromising, and community-minded, Isobel remained to the end that rebellious woman who chose her life and chose to be an artist.