Avril Paton
Wednesday 14th November 2018
Synopsis
In 1994 Glasgow City Council purchased from Avril Paton, her painting of a tenement building entitled ,’Windows in the West’. First hung in the then newly opened Gallery of Modern Art in Royal Exchange Square ,it soon became the gallery’s most visited exhibit. Subsequently in 2006 it was moved to Kelvingrove Art Gallery where it continues to attract good public attention . It is also a much used educational resource.
Lecturer’s CV
Avril Paton grew up on the Island of Arran where her grandfather, Donald Paton and her father Hugh, both Arran born, were practising landscape artists.
‘An Artists life ; Arran and Glasgow’, will be an illustrated talk about her artistic life in both places; from her childhood in Corrie to her progress as an aspiring artist at Glasgow School of Art : her return to Arran for 20 years,and her very productive residence back in the city ,starting in 1982.
Corrie ,the village on Arran where she grew up, was known as’ The Artists Village’ at the beginning of the last century. Several artists who worked there during that time and later have since garnered international reputations. She will talk about them and other lesser known Arran based artists who significantly affected her progress. The main focus of the talk however will be the showing on screen, and discussion of, her Glasgow paintings. Some of her work may be familiar as prints but most of what she will show here has not been published.