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March 2025

Stewarts, Stags, 'Spooks' and Splendour: The Story of Scottish Art

The Arts Society Maidenhead
Monday, March 17, 2025 - 11:30
Baylis Theatre, Braywick Leisure Centre
Braywick Road Maidenhead SL6 1BN
Online Event

A fast fling through 5,000 years of Scottish art

Lachlan Goudie takes you on a fast fling through 5,000 years of Scottish art. In a passionate and personal account, brimming with fascinating characters and historical events, Lachlanwill describe how creativity shaped Scotland’s past, its culture and its destiny. Scottish art never existed in isolation. Lachlan will reveal how Scotland’s artists and craftsmen created work that influenced and responded to the aesthetic movements transforming the global course of art history. It’s a tale of radicals and visionaries, artists with an international mind-set and a bold sense of their own cultural background, who resolved to create work at the forefront of Western Art and culture. Lachlan Goudie is an artist, author and broadcaster who wrote and presented the landmark BBC television series ‘The Story of Scottish Art’.

Laclan Goudie
Lachlan’s artistic range is broad, he paints portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Lachlan’s paintings have received numerous awards and are exhibited regularly in London, Edinburgh and New York . He is an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. In addition to painting Lachlan Goudie has written and presented several documentaries for the BBC. His series ‘The Story of Scottish Art ‘ was critically acclaimed and Lachlan received a nomination from the Royal Television Society for the Onscreen personality of the year award.