Things have always been different in Glasgow, well at least different from Edinburgh. Like the city, its painter sons have had large personalities, the big man or the wee man, each casting a long shadow. This impressive group of men did not form a school of painting but they shared some common characteristics: strong colourists, direct, gestural painters, chiefly concerned with conventional subject matter but each capable of shifting into allegory or whimsy. Some years the RGI annual exhibition would reflect these qualities in an abundance which was in danger of excluding anything else, but these painters, cussedly independent, have been consistently appraised and shown as individuals, as it should be. So as a virtual group, we have selected a few pictures which we feel show some of these admirable characteristics.
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