The Poetry of Place : Duncan Shanks's sketchbooks and the Upper Clyde

Duncan Shanks, one of the finest Scottish landscape painters of the last 50 years, has dedicated his life to an understanding and knowledge of the Clyde Valley, a beautiful and fertile area close to Scotland's largest city. A prolific draughtsman and disciplined painter, he has over the last 20 years worked on a number of critically acclaimed solo exhibitions exploring the different subject matters at the heart of his art, from the Clyde's Falls to Tinto Hill. This is the first in-depth analysis of the working methods and approach to art of one the nation's most talented contemporary landscape painters, based on more than 100 sketchbooks spanning over 45 years.