The Scottish Gallery | Ann Oram | New Paintings from the Studio | March 2018

ANN ORAM

NEW PAINTINGS FROM THE STUDIO

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ANN ORAM Ann Oram has exhibited with The Scottish Gallery for over thirty years.

Her first exhibitions were exotic, rich urban landscapes: buildings familiar and foreign invested with character and mystery. Since her diploma at Edinburgh she has worked around Scotland, in France, Italy and Spain. Today she has landed in The Borders and in her first year looked at the characterful villages and a landscape changing with the seasons.

She continues to paint the interior with still life; flowers both cut and gathered, objects collected, like Anne Redpath before her, from her travels and keen eye for shape and form. This small exhibition in our garden gallery is a welcome reintroduction to one of Scotland’s enduring and best loved painters.

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Two Jugs with Chinese Lanterns acrylic on board 51 x 61 cms

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Duddingston Loch watercolour 56 x 76 cms

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Field and Houses under Snow, Greenlaw acrylic on board 46 x 61 cms

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Looking Towards the Bridge and Castle mixed media on Khadi paper 22 x 30 cms

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From Calton Hill mixed media on Khadi paper 22 x 30 cms

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Charlotte Square mixed media on Khadi paper 22 x 30 cms

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Entrance to St. Giles mixed media on watercolour paper 38 x 38 cms

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Midnight Still Life mixed media on watercolour paper 67 x 78 cms

Bank of Scotland, Late Evening acrylic on board 51 x 61 cms 15

Princes St Gardens. Winter Celebrations mixed media on watercolour paper 56 x 76cms

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Above - Bank of Scotland. Nocturne mixed media on watercolour paper 67 x 102 cms

Left - Chrysanthemums acrylic on board 59 x 60 cms

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Siena Cathedral Facade mixed media on watercolour paper 28 x 37 cms

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St. Giles. Nocturne acrylic on linen 92 x 132 cms

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Seedheads, Autumn Day mixed media on watercolour paper 56 x 76 cms

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Still Life with Grapes on a Yellow Ground acrylic on board 46 x 61 cms

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Flowers from an Edinburgh Garden watercolour and gouache on Arches paper 105 x 117cms

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Sunflowers on Pink and White Ground watercolour and gouache on Arches paper 105 x 117 cms

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Seedheads in Late Summer acrylic on linen 102 x 102 cms

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Yellow Field Blue Sky mixed media on Khadi paper 28 x 40 cms

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Moonlight, Gorse and Old Farm Gate mixed media on Paper 67 x 100 cms

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Kitchen Still Life acrylic on linen 70 x 100 cms

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Orange Roses on a Red Ground acrylic on board 30 x 30 cms 34

Roses and Berries on Green acrylic on board 30 x 30 cms 35

Autumnal Flowers on a Red Ground acrylic on linen 102 x 92 cms

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` Ann Oram RSW Biography Born in London in 1956 Grew up in the Scottish Highlands 1976-82 Studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot Watt University Graduated with BA hons in Painting, and a Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art (with Distinction) 1983-85 Lecturer in the Painting School, ECA 1986 Elected to RSW (Royal Scottish Society of Painters of Watercolour) 1987-88 Lived and painted in Spain 1988 Visiting Lecturer, University Northumbria 1991-93 Part time Lecturer in Painting, Edinburgh College of Art Taught drawing in Design School at ECA 2006-2007 lived and painted in Vienna, Austria. Visited and worked in Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy and Hungary 2016 Lived and worked in Northern France Paints full time and teaches privately Awards 1980 Carnegie Travelling Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition 1981 Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship to New York 1981 Largo Award, ECA 1981-82 Andrew Grant Major Award Travelled to France and Italy. Stayed at the British School in Rome 1991 May Marshall Brown Award (RSW) 1998 William Gilles Award RSW 39

Group Exhibitions since 1985 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Macaulay Gallery, Stenton Thackeray Gallery, London Corrymella Scott, Newcastle upon Tyne Portland Gallery, London Henshelwood Gallery, Newcastle Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow Falle Fine Art, Jersey Richmond Hill Gallery, London Corto and Nero, Vienna Galerie Wolfrum, Vienna Duncan Miller Fine Arts, London Lemon St Gallery, Truro RGI, RSA, RA, RSW Islington Art Fairs, 20/21st RCA, London. Glasgow Art Fair Tatha Gallery, Newport upon Tay Gordon Brown Fine Art, Tain The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly Thackeray Gallery, Summer Show 2016 and The Land and Sea III 2017 An Tatha Solais, Ullapool 2015, 2016, 2017

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Solo Exhibitions since 1985 The Scottish Gallery 1985, 90,96,2004,2010- Following On Exhibition The Macaulay Gallery, Stenton 1986,88,92 An Tatha Solais, Ullapool 2015, 21016, 2017 e Thackeray Gallery, 1991, 93 Corrymella Scott Gallery 1996,98, 2000, 03, 08, 15,16 Henshelwood Gallery 2006 Portland Gallery 1995, 97, 99, 2005 Richmond Hill Gallery 2007 Corto & Nero, Wien 2007 Lemon St Gallery. Journeys to Europe 2008 Open Eye Gallery 2014, 2016 Duncan Miller Fine Arts 2010, 2011, 2014 Brian Sinfield Gallery 2013, 2015 Thackeray Gallery June 2017 Fund Raising Exhibition for Maggie’s Edinburgh in November 2017 The Scottish Gallery 2018 Commissions 1999 Royal Bank of Scotland Designed two tapestries for The Younger Building (for George Younger) Unveiled by Princess Anne Standard Life Paintings of Edinburgh International Fireworks and Princes St Gardens for their new headquarters in Lothian road, Edinburgh Painted Sir Bob Reid and Lady Jo Reid Many private commissions, including a two year commission working in Tuscany, Italy, 20132015 Currently working on a group of paintings from Roslin Chapel

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Collections Bank of Scotland; Britoil, Credit Lyonnais; Dundas and Wilson WS; Shepherd and Wedderburn WS; Dunedin Fund Managers; Edinburgh University; ECA; Heriot Watt University; Ethicon; Northern General Hospital; Art In Healthcare; Robert Fleming Holdings; RBS; HBOS; Royal Bank of Scotland Singapore; Scottish Life; Scottish Provident; Scottish Widows; Standard Life; Tysak and Partners; Stirling Art Gallery Private Collections Works in numerous private collections throughout UK, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Spain, Austria, Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, India and Japan, 2017 Fabriano Acquarello International Watercolour Exhibition, Fabriano Italy, Spring 2017 Recent Interviews The Pastel Journal, USA February 2017 Travels Lived and worked in Normandy France in 2016 Visited Paris, Rouen, and the Northern Coastline of France Travelled to Connecticut and in 2017 to give a talk and workshop to an Artists Society Visited New York Books Who’s Who in Art The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600-1960 Paul Harris 42

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