Curriculum Vitae

David E Johnston RSW

Tel. 01561 377 368 – Email mearnsartist@aol.com – Website www.mearnsartist.com

One-Man & Featured Artist Exhibitions

• Montrose Public Library (1982, 1984)
• Riverside Gallery, Stonehaven (1986)
• Brechin Public Library (1986)
• Castlegait Gallery, Montrose (1988)
• Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen (1991)
• Tolquhon Gallery, Ellon (1992, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2021)
• Bank Street Gallery, Kirriemuir: By Shore and Field Edge (2012)
• Gallery at Fifty-Five (Now Eion Stewart Fine Art) Stonehaven: A Sense of Place (2016)
• Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen, with Grace Cameron & Ian Rawnsley (2018)
• Tolquhon Gallery, Ellon with Kirsten Cohen (2021)

Group & Mixed Exhibitions

• Nine North-East Artists, Castlegait Gallery, Montrose (1989)
• Singer-Friedlander/ Sunday Times Watercolour Competitions (Finalist 1990 & 1999)
• Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibitions (1991, 2015, 2017 – 2023)
• Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London (1990, 1991, 2010, 2022)
• Eduardo Alessandro Studios, Broughty Ferry (1980s)
• South West Gallery, Texas (1992)
• Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, England (2002)
• Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, California – ‘Living Memory’ Exhibition (2002)
• Milton of Crathes Gallery, Banchory (2009 – 2016)
• Artaboyne Annual Exhibition, Aboyne (2015)
• Eion Stewart Fine Art – until 2018 Gallery @ 55, Stonehaven (2012 – 2021)
• RSW Summer Exhibitions (Lillie Art Gallery, 2017, & The Meffan, Forfar, 2018; Dunoon, 2019)
• Aberdeen Artists’ Society (Various dates, 1971-Present)
• Tolquhon Gallery, Ellon (1988 – 2023)
• Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen (1989 – 2023)
• Collinton Arts, Edinburgh (2024 –  )
• Impressions of Eternity, A Celebration of the Art of Watercolour,  Villa Falconieri, Frascati, Rome 31st May – 2nd June.

Awards

• • Joint Winner, Apache North Sea Award: Aberdeen Artists’ Annual Exhibition (2015)
  • Elected member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (2017)
  • Nominated for membership of RSW Council (2019)
  • Awarded ‘Best Landscape’ in Professional category of SAA Artist of the Year Competition (2019)
  • Received Sir William Gillies Award for landscape watercolour ‘A Summer Place, The Mearns’ at the 140th Annual Exhibition of the RSW (February, 2021)
  • Elected RSW Vice President East (October, 2021)
  • Received the Alison Prosser prize for landscape watercolour: ‘Making Tracks into Winter’ at the 141st Annual Exhibition of the RSW (December, 2021)
  • Elected Honorary Treasurer RSW (October, 2022)

Works in the Collections of:

• • • Aberdeenshire Council
    • BLESMA, the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association
    • The Royal Bank of Scotland
    • Brimmond Medical Group, Aberdeen
    • The Town of Clermont-Ferrand, France & Private collections throughout the world
    • Private collections around the world

Painting Courses

• • • Artists’ Painting Class – Mearns Community Education Workshops (2011 – 2012)
    • Art at The Venue, Laurencekirk (2013 – 2020)
    • Tolquhon Gallery Art Workshops – Art on the Green (2010 -2014)
    • St Andrews Summer Art Course: Sketching in Watercolour – Guest Tutor (2010)
    • Watercolour Weekends at the Grassic Gibbon Centre, Arbuthnott (2011 – 2013)
    • Watercolour Painting ‘By Shoreline & Harbour’, Johnshaven (2014)
    • Painting Weekends, The Burn House, Edzell (2012 -2024
    • ‘Focus on Foregrounds’: Upper Deeside Art Society Watercolour Workshop (2014)
    •  Catterline Painting Weekends (2015,2016)

Lectures/Speaking Engagements

• • • The Grassic Gibbon Centre, Arbuthnott: Mearns Connections – Joan Eardley – A Personal Tribute’ (2010)
    • Upper Deeside Art Society, Tonal Painting & The Scottish Tradition (2011)
    • Stonehaven Art Society, The Tonal Tradition in Painting (2011)
    • Arbroath Art Society, The Way I See It (2013)
    • Upper Deeside Art Society, The Making of a Masterpiece: Thomas Cole’s ‘Oxbow’, 1836 (2017)

Publications/Articles

• • • Joan Eardley’s Catterline: Discovering the Artist’s Voice: article commissioned by Andy Hall in  Aberdeenshire – a New Perspective (2017)
    • Magnificent Mearns: Article on my Work by Rosie Morton in Scottish Field (March, 2019 edition). In Leopard edition of the Magazine, (pp 26-27)
    • Joan Eardley: A Personal Tribute Published by The Grassic Gibbon Centre, Arbuthnott to mark the Centenary of the Artist’s birth (May, 2021)
    • Capturing The Light Article by Jamie Wilde in Your Life section of The Courier & P&J (September, 2021)
    • Leslie Mitchell, The Mearns & Me in ‘The Speak of the Place’, the newsletter of the Friends of the Grassic Gibbon Centre (Spring & Autumn  editions, 2015)

David E Johnston RSW, June, 2024