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Three renowned artists, each a Scottish international angler, all living in tiny Border villages within casting distance of Scotland’s acclaimed River Tweed on three points of the compass of the revered Junction Pool at Kelso.
Coincidence or connective congruity?
Jake Harvey, sculptor, Jimmy Fairgrieve, painter, and Ronnie Glass, water-colourist turned replica fish artist, possess over 50 caps for Scotland in the subtle art of angling, each a product of the 50s, all producing highly collectable works of art in their own medium.
Fairgrieve, from the drive-through village of Gordon in Berwickshire is Scotland’s most capped, and successful game fisherman. With a basket of caps and gold medals he is also forging a national and international reputation for his still life work, mostly in acrylic.
‘There is a definite and direct connection between my art and my angling, and although the fishing predated painting, the two are irrevocably and conclusively connected,’ says Fairgrieve, who recently took early retirement from his job as a senior lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, splitting his time between painting still life and pursuing brown trout, salmon and grayling in the winter.
‘Fishermen and artists absorb themselves into the environment they are occupying in pursuit of their particular passion, and both require a high degree of visualisation, razor-sharp powers of observation, and both the painter and the angler are ultra-sensitive to subtle
In this month's issue Alan Cochrane writes about new penalties for wildlife crimes. Do you think it would be fair to ban keepers for life for certain wildlife crimes?
