Alexander Goudie

For over 30 years, his summers were spent documenting the changing face of the rural landscape in sketchbooks and paintings, on harboursides and in the fields.

The resulting series of ceramic sculptures depicting ‘Breton types’ bears testament to a way of life that had all but vanished at the end of the 20th century.

[5] The final illustrative cycle of over 60 works, completed in 1999, would be purchased in its entirety and now resides on permanent public display at Rozelle House Archived 2 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine, near Burns’ home in Alloway, Ayrshire.

Alexander Goudie found literary inspiration in Oscar Wilde’s play Salome and Richard Strauss’s opera of the same name.

He saw himself in the tradition of figurative painting which stretched back from the work of his native Glasgow Boys, to encompass the influence of Paul Gauguin, Goya, Velázquez and Titian.