CRITIC'S CHOICE
Summer Show, The Lemond Gallery, Bearsden, Saturday and Sunday.
www.lemondgallery.com
SINCE 2010, The Lemond Gallery in Bearsden has been throwing open its doors to the public for 17 weeks every year, exhibiting a broad range of paintings – with the odd sculpture and ceramic work – by some of Scotland's best-known artists.
The brainchild of husband and wife team, Ken and Susan Lemond, this large pop-up gallery is accommodated in their airy Bearsden home, which has been adapted over the years into a bright and welcoming space.
The Lemonds started selling paintings online in 2000 when the internet was opening up opportunities for artists and gallery owners alike. As the paintings came into their home to be photographed, their friends bought them quicker than the images could be loaded onto their website. Realising people liked to see work "in the flesh", they programmed two weekend-long exhibitions each year, from 2003 until 2010.
From 2010, having expanded the house and gallery space, the couple added a series of solo and two-person shows to showcase a wider body of work from gallery favourites such as Gerard Burns, Robert Kelsey and Muriel Barclay.
The Lemond's annual group Summer Show takes place this weekend and features over 500 paintings from around 120 Scottish artists.
There really is work to suit every taste, from the bright and juicy floral still lives of Alison McWhirter to the monochrome grit of Ryan Mutter's shipyard scenes.
According to Ken Lemond, artists are selected from Scotland's four major art schools. "We work with graduates who trained in the 1960’s right up to recently qualified emerging artists," he says.
The Lemonds are also expanding their horizons – to Edinburgh. Next weekend, they are hosting a group show at a similar home environment in the Murrayfield area.
Watch this light and airy space…
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