Landscapes and Birds of Scotland Exhibition - RGI Kelly Gallery

Landscapes and Birds of Scotland, RGI Kelly Gallery, 4th-19th October 2013

Leo du Feu is a Scottish watercolour artist based in Edinburgh. Landscapes and Birds of Scotland, Leo's fifth Scottish solo show and first with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Art's Kelly Gallery, will feature a big selection of sketches and paintings from his regular travels around Scotland. 

Leo is a keen birdwatcher and supporter of conservation. He volunteers regularly for the RSPB and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). The more his interest in birds grows teh more he finds them flying, hopping and swimming into his paintings.

Very often Leo's work is from life, out of doors. As such he works a lot in watercolour or pencil and watercolour. Acrylic paintings are created back in his studio in Linlithgow, overlooking his father's large produce and wildlife-filled garden.

Leo graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002.  He has received funding and awards from the Bet Low Trust, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), and the Royal Over-Seas League.

Many of Leo's explorations are thanks to ScotRail's generous ongoing support of his projects. In the past Leio has also been supported by SYHA Hostelling Scotland, and recently Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative have offered a bike to further the reach of his rail journeys.

Leo's new book Landscapes and Birds of Scotland: an Artist's View is to be published in time for Christmas 2013. May of the works from the Kelly Gallery exhibition will feature in teh book.

Leo's work can be seen at www.leodufeu.co.uk

His blog documents his travel and nature experiences: www.landscapeartnaturebirds.blogspot.com

Landscapes and Birds of Scotland. 4th-19th October 2013
Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
RGI Kelly Gallery
118 Douglas Street
Glasgow
G2 4ET
Tel: 0141 248 6386
gallery@royalglasgowinstitute.org

Shakespeare's Scotland: 25th September

To coincide with Perth Theatre’s production of Macbeth, on the evening of Wednesday 25 September, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society will be putting on an informal display from its extensive collections of these splendid early maps of Scotland, together with others of the same period, and drawing particular attention to those geographical localities named by Shakespeare in his play.

Margaret Wilkes, one of the joint authors of the recently-published, much-acclaimed ‘Scotland: Mapping the Nation’ and Convener of RSGS’s Collections & Information Committee, will be present to guide visitors through this special display and to point out items of interest about the maps.  She will be accompanied by Tony Simpson, a member of RSGS’s Collections Team, who has produced a sequence of detailed Powerpoint images focusing on the places which have particular association with Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Forres, Darnaway, Cawdor, Inverness, Glamis, Macduff’s Castle by East Wemyss, Birnam and of course Dunsinane.

This special evening will run from 17.30 – 18.30hrs and take place at the Society’s Headquarters, Lord John Murray’s House, 15 - 19 North Port. Perth.

Tickets are £5. Places are limited. Please book by contacting 01738 455050 or enquiries@rsgs.org