Far back in the annals of art – it was definitely more than 30 years ago because I was still typing on an Olympia – a new movement appeared in Scotland. Its painters were figurative, cocky, colourful, so people began calling them the New Scottish Colourists, or, more hopefully, the New Glasgow Boys.
At the time, art was going through one of its dull phases. German graphs, done with grey, were all the rage. So the full-colour arrival of the New Glasgow Boys had the atmosphere of spring about it. And the artists who made up the group – Stephen Campbell, Adrian Wiszniewski, Ken Currie, Mario Rossi, Peter Howson – were the cocks o’ the north. If only briefly.
I remembered the fireworks of their
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