Born in 1951, James Tweedie lives and works in Glasgow. He paints the urban landscape, the parkland and odd corners of the city, usually, though not always,Glasgow. A surrealist at heart he always looks for a sense of mystery, of possibility in the atmosphere of a place. This he attempts to convey by means of a ‘poetic’ image, which can be touching, threatening or humerous. His work is very popular both in Scotland and South of the Border.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Compass Gallery, Glasgow 1972

Open Circle, Glasgow 1986, 1989

Compass Gallery, Glasgow 1993, 2003

MIXED EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:

Edinburgh University

Arts Centre, Belfast

Goethe Institute, Glasgow

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh – regular exhibitor

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow – regular exhibitor

Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

Paisley Art Institute, Paisley

Pride and Passion, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh 1996

Contemporary Scottish Art, Touring Exhibition:

Maastricht, Amsterdam, Aacgen, Reims, Troyes, Paris 1997/98

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

"We're All Big Boys Now" – half hour film about Glasgow League of Artists

Siddharta Films 1975

"Glasgow Group 1958-1990", Glasgow 1990

"Surrealist Tendencies in Contemporary Scottish Art", Glasgow 1990

"James Tweedie – New Glasgow Paintings", Glasgow 1993

ARTIST COMMENT:

"The locations are always real places and are important in the sense that they are 'jumping off point' for a picture. There has to be something about a place that will turn me on, light, shade, volume, a sense of something else. Usually, but not always, the picture will be started as an urban landscape, and after the image has soaked in for a while something sometimes happens which is the addition of other, foreign elements which hopefully, will provide a spark that will heighten and amplify the sense of mystery or whatever may have sparked the first idea. They are not symbolist pictures, which would tie them down to a literary and literal meaning, I hope that they would constitute a kind of visual poetry not based on words."

James Tweedie 2003

Member of Glasgow League of Artists(1974/75) and Glasgow Group (1988/91).