FLYING HIGH IN GLASGOW: Joanna and her flock of high fliers on Thursday.
A celebrated Badenoch artist flew high in Glasgow with a stunning show on Thursday night – courtesy of her captivating three-dimensional birds.
Joanna McDonough, known to so many art-lovers in Badenoch and Strathspey as the artist in residence at Speyside Distillery, teamed up with the city’s ScotlandArt Gallery in Bath Street to preview selected pieces from her latest collection.
She celebrated a successful event with the Strathy yesterday, explaining: “I was airing some new art pieces at the gallery, notably three new pieces on canvas focussing on flying birds and swimming fishes.
STAND-OUT ART: How three-dimensional art can leap from the canvas.
“I also had the pleasure of presenting three new large landscapes.”
McDonough has exhibited successfully around the country in innumerable galleries – her exhibition at Inverness’ Eden Court Theatre in the summer was highly rated and her abstract Highland landscapes have given a whole new dimension at such venues as the Macdonald Aviemore Resort.
AT HOME IN THE HIGHLANDS: Joanna McDonough with some of her latest abstract landscapes.
Born in Aldershot in 1967, she studied art and design at Bretton Hall College, specializing in screen printing and lithography and graduating in 1989.
In 2014 she completed a course at the Princes School of Traditional Arts (PSTA) in London, studying Persian biomorphic design and went on to undertake projects in conjunction with Harvey’s of Edinburgh.
In 2015 she donated and sold a piece of artwork at the Saatchi Gallery in London at a charity auction on behalf of the PSTA as her reputation grew.
SLAINTE: John McDonough of Speyside Distillery enjoyed ‘winging it’ with Joanna at the Glasgow Gallery.
Thursday’s event, all the more welcoming for the contribution by her distiller husband John with his Byron’s Gin, demonstrated her very latest works and gave away some secrets about those beguiling birds which almost literally follow the observer round the room from their ingeniously-crafted stalks.
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