Alexander Goudie - Biographical Notes

Born Paisley, Scotland, 11th November

Studied Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
Glasgow School of Art. Awards:

• Somerville Shanks Prize for Composition
• Newbery Medal for Distinction
• Post-graduate Scholarship
• Keith Award – Royal Scottish Academy

First visit to Paris

Elected Member of Glasgow Art Club

Painting trip to Toledo and Madrid

Tour of France; visiting Rouen, Royan, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Saint-Lizier, Nimes, Arles, Avignon, Annecy, Reims.

First visit to Brittany

Marries Marie-Renee Dorval

First of annual painting trips to Loctudy

First Major exhibition of Breton Paintings. The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Exhibition, La Foret-Fouesnant [Brittany]

Elected Member of Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Second exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

'Breton Images', Glasgow Art Club

'Portrait', BBC Television series featuring comedian Billy Connolly, mountaineer Chris Bonnington and Sir Edwin Brammal.

Drawings, Pastels, Watercolours, The Macaulay Gallery, Stenton

London Studio Exhibition, 33 Tite Street, Chelsea

'Goudie at 50'; Major Retrospective. The Fine Art Society, Glasgow

'Breton Idyll', The French Institute, Edinburgh and the Fine Art Society, Glasgow

'Breton Sketchbook', The Macaulay Gallery, Stenton

Portrait of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay of Clashfern

Décor for Brittany Ferries flagship, 'Bretagne'

Exhibition, St.-Pol-de-Leon [Brittany]

Awarded the Freedom of St. Pol de Leon

Publication of 'Goudie's Brittany'

'Goudie's Venice', Harari and Johns, London

'Goudie's Brittany', The Fine Art Society, Glasgow

Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, for the Caledonia Club, London

Posthumous portrait of The 14th Duke of Hamilton

'Salome', Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, The TSB Atrium, Edinburgh

Décor for the First Class Passenger salons of the 'Val de Loire', Brittany Ferries

Collaboration with The Musee de la Faience, Quimper [Brittany]

'Tam O'Shanter', Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh

'Goudie Ceramique', The Musee de la Faience, Quimper [Brittany]

'Tam O'Shanter, The Tale in Pictures', The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

'Goudie Ceramique', The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

'The Goudie Collection' of Tam O'Shanter paintings opens on permanent display at Rozelle House, Alloway, Ayrshire

2001 'The Artist and his Muse', The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

'Breton Works' Exhibition, The John Davies Gallery, Stow on the Wold

'Tam O' Shanter; New works', The Glasgow Art Club, Glasgow

Portrait of the 15th Duke and Duchess of Hamilton

Died at his home in Glasgow, March 9th.

'Breton drawings and watercolours', Ewan Mundy Fine Art, Glasgow

'Alexander Goudie Memorial Exhibition', The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Brittany Ferries collection exhibition 'L'Art est un Voyage', Musee National de la Marine, Paris

'Goudie's Glasgow' Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

‘Ete Mediterannean’, Ewan Mundy Fine Art, Glasgow

‘Joie de Vivre – The Art of Alexander Goudie’, Paisley Museum, Paisley

Publication of ‘Tam o’Shanter, illustrated by Alexander Goudie’

‘A Portrait of Spain’, Roger Billcliffe  Gallery, Glasgow