* CHRIS BUSHE RSW (SCOTTISH b. 1958),
KASTRO
oil on board, signed, titled and dated 2001 verso
image size 39cm x 39cm, overall size 69cm x 68cm
Mounted, framed and under glass.
Note: Born in Perthshire, Chris Bushe is one of Scotland’s greatest living landscape painters. Initially, he studied Archaeology and Ancient History at Edinburgh but from his earliest years, he has responded to his fascination with the landscape around rural Aberdeenshire. He was accepted at Gray’s School of Art in the 1980s and forged a career painting landscapes very much in his own style and at odds with the fashionable conceptualism of the day. His paintings have won him a plethora of awards at national exhibitions. His work can be found in the corporate collections of Murray International Metals, Premier Property Group, Aberdeen Hospitals Trust, Grampian Regional Council, Edinburgh Hospitals Trust, Scottish Life, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish & Newcastle, Dundee City Council, Bulthaup, University of Stirling, Turnberry Hotel and Centrica. His many awards include the Morton Fraser Milligan, Russell Flint Trust, Glasgow Arts Club Fellowship, Scottish Arts Club Awards, the RSW Council Award, the RSW McManus Galleries Purchase Prize, the RSW Fotheringham Gallery Award and the RSW The Walter Scott Award. Most recently, Chris has had considerable success at The Discerning Eye winning both the Founder’s £2500 Purchase Prize in 2015 and ING £5,000 Purchase Prize in 2016. In Scotland, his principal gallery is the prestigious Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh) where his most recent (widely praised) solo show was "Chasing Light" (4th - 25th June 2022). In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 10th July 2022 lot 1, "The Blue Door" by Chris Bushe sold for £850 (hammer). Kastro village is a lovely cliff-top village situated at 5 kilometres east of Apollonia. It offers a magnificent panoramic view of the sea and has been inhabited since the prehistoric period, as testify the many findings coming from the various archaeological excavations. Kastro has been built in the ruins of the ancient capital of Sifnos and is the only village on the island with a strong medieval character. A big part of the boundary walls survive as well as the features of a Venetian fortress. Narrow little streets, old entrances called the lozies, beautiful two-storey houses, superb old mansions and 16th and 17th-century churches with ornamental floors compose the incredible beauty of Kastro.