See Bellany in Edinburgh study visit

There’s a wonderful opportunity on the horizon for OCA students in the north of England and Scotland. I do encourage you to attend the John Bellany exhibition even if you are further afield. The visit will be on Monday 26 November, and you’ll be accompanied by two tutors: Emma Drye, OCA tutor and assessor and Olivia Irvine, OCA tutor and active commentator on the student website. The visit starts at 11.30am.
This exhibition marking John Bellany’s 70th birthday will include paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints from all the key periods of the artist’s career. Beginning with the celebrated large-scale paintings of fisherfolk and their boats; through the darker, even harrowing pictures of the early 1970s that show the impact of Bellany’s visit to Germany; the wild, expressionist paintings of the late 1970s and early 1980s; the remarkably honest and courageous watercolours and drawings that Bellany made about his liver transplant and near miraculous recovery; to the richly coloured allegorical paintings that the artist has produced since then reflecting a renewed vigour and optimism as he travelled the world and set down roots in Italy, England and, of course, Scotland.
This will be the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of John Bellany’s work since the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art organised the retrospective in 1986.
If you’d like to go please email enquiries@oca-uk.com for a place. OCA will cover the cost of tickets, a tour has been booked and a room is available for us to have a post study visit chat.