Thomas Jacobi : Shorescapes – Fifteen Buckhaven Pigments

Thomas Jacobi : Shorescapes
Fifteen Buckhaven Pigments
17 August – 14 September 2024
PREVIEW
Friday 16 August 2024
18:00 – 20:00
The Glasgow Art Club
185 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4HU
Study Day: Saturday 24 August 2024
11:00 – 12:30 - Egg Tempera Painting Workshop with Thomas Jacobi
14:30 – 16:00 - Lecture by Dr Samuel Gallacher with Thomas Jacobi
Dr Samuel Gallacher
Egg tempera until 1500
From the Coptic portraits of Fayum to Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, egg tempera was the predominant medium of painting in Europe and the Mediterranean for well over a millennium. This lecture will trace the history of this important medium through the ages, its transmission and evolution, from antiquity to the Renaissance. By studying masterpieces using egg tempera, its use and appeal to both artists and patrons will be understood, so too will its fall from fashion, as the limits of the medium gave way to the increasing use of oil-based approaches in the sixteenth century.
Dr Samuel Gallacher is an historian focussed on art and architecture. He is the former Keeper of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow and former Assistant Director of the Medici Archive Project in Florence. He is currently Director of the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust as well as a judge of the European Museum Academy's Art Museum Award 2024.
Thomas Jacobi
Shorescapes
Frequent visits over many years to the wonderful shore at Buckhaven in Fife has been the inspiration for creating the paintings entitled 'The 15 Buckhaven Pigments'. This lecture/talk introduces the making process in several stages, from collecting the raw materials, producing the pigments and eventually painting the works. Furthermore, sharing concepts related to landscape painting.
Thomas Jacobi studied painting and print making at the Academy for Applied Art in Vienna, Austria. He lives and works in Glasgow.