The Present Day at The Fleming Collection

Scottish art today is a complex blend of native and external influence. It is made up of a number of distinctive, but interrelated strains. The tradition of painterly style and decorative colour, exemplified by the landscapes and still lifes of the Edinburgh School, provided the next generation of artists with a strong base from which to develop, albeit modified from time to time by outside influences such as American abstract expressionism or oriental art in a number of individual instances. This particular strain of Scottish art is seen in the painting of artists such as David McClure, John Houston and Elizabeth Blackadder.