James Harrigan

JAMES HARRIGAN is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where he studied Painting and Printmaking between 1956 and 1961. He was born in Ayr and has continued to live in Ayrshire all his life. He never tires of painting the surrounding landscape and coastline but he also enjoys travelling. Recently he has spent time in Guernsey and in Brazil - two contrasting environments from which paintings will feature in the exhibition. He is known mainly as a landscape artist but his landscapes are almost invariably informed by a human presence and day to day activities. This may be actual figures or it may be a suggestion of human life through buildings, gardens, boats.... He is an expressive painter working mainly in oils, using the rich, luscious quality of the paint to great effect. He exhibits widely and has work in many collections including those of the House of Lords, Glasgow University, P & O Cruises, Wigtonshire Education Trust and the Maclaurin Gallery. He is a past winner of the prestigious Laing Landscape Competition and the Scotsman Art Competition.

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