Margot Sandeman exhibition in Glasgow

An exhibition of Margot Sandeman’s paintings is to be held at The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Glasgow. It is open from Tuesday, January 18th to Wednesday, March 16th, and also features the work of Margot’s parents. Her mother, Muriel Boyd Sandeman, produced very beautiful embroideries and her father, Archibald, was a talented water-colourist.

Many people will remember the solo exhibition of Margot’s paintings at the Burnside Gallery in Brodick in 2004. It was a particularly fitting place to show the work of an artist who visited Arran as a child with her artist parents every summer and later with her close friend Joan Eardley while they were both studying at Glasgow School of Art. In the 1950s Margot and her husband James Robson, a potter, bought The Bothy in High Corrie, and became even more closely attached to the island.

Margot Sandeman loved Arran. She painted in and around the clachan, looking out to the sea which in her paintings is often spangled with white yachts, or else looking inland to the pattern of birch, hawthorn, bracken and heather, sheep and running burns. Her lyrical vision was strongly emphasised by her power of rhythmical composition, strengthened by underlying control. The many admirers of her work will find it well worth while to go and see this exhibition of her work in Glasgow