{"product_id":"untitled-venetian-scene-hamish-lawrie-scottish-1919","title":"Venetian Scene | HAMISH LAWRIE Scottish 1919-1987","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHamish Lawrie (1919–1987)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Dunfermline in 1919, Hamish Lawrie studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen before moving to London in 1941, where he worked as a cameraman in the film industry. His first recorded sale as an artist was to the poet Dylan Thomas, who bought one of his paintings for £5. Lawrie’s first major exhibition followed in 1947 at Wolf Mankowitz’s Little Gallery in London.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter working in Africa between 1949 and 1951, Lawrie returned to Scotland. His friend, the Scottish Colourist J. D. Fergusson, encouraged him to go to France to develop his painting, and Lawrie subsequently spent nine years living and working at Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the south of France.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was an extraordinary place for a young Scottish painter to find himself in the 1950s. Saint-Paul-de-Vence had become an important meeting place for artists and writers, centred particularly around La Colombe d’Or, and Lawrie’s work from this period includes French and Continental landscapes and harbour scenes.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe returned to Scotland around 1960, turning increasingly to the Western Highlands and Outer Hebrides. These later landscapes are characterised by strong colour, increasingly vigorous handling and heavy impasto. Lawrie became a regular exhibitor in Edinburgh and was a well-known member of the Scottish Arts Club.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis friendship with Fergusson continued to be significant. In 1960 Lawrie made a charcoal and wash portrait of the older artist, which is now in the collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, having been acquired in 1986.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLawrie’s career is rather more cosmopolitan than his reputation simply as a Scottish landscape painter suggests: film work in wartime London, Africa, nine years in the south of France and extensive travel in Europe all sit behind the Scottish paintings for which he later became best known.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"viki.knott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57231171846524,"sku":"X682","price":780.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0505\/7295\/1736\/files\/6C0FE6D7-B4A5-404F-ACAA-90F851D65B6D.jpg?v=1787067660","url":"https:\/\/www.vikiknott.com\/products\/untitled-venetian-scene-hamish-lawrie-scottish-1919","provider":"viki.knott","version":"1.0","type":"link"}