Famous Former Pupils

Artist

Another recent pupil of Kilmarnock Academy who is earning a name for herself in the art world is Helen Flockhart. A native of Stewarton, Flockhart paints in a contemporary style, using symbolism rather than photographic realism. But she draws on the great western realistic tradition of art by painting in a sharply-focused manner. She is a brilliant addition to the line of former Kilmarnock Academy pupils who have expressed the impact of the twentieth century in art. One of her paintings is held in the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock.

                          


To see some more examples of Helen Flockhart's paintings click on this link to the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. That Gallery also provides the following information:

"Helen Flockhart is one of the most accomplished painters of her generation.

Her meticulously wrought pictures conjure up a vivid world - shot with the power of myth and metaphor - but rooted in the recognisable and the quotidian.

"I hope," she says, "that my paintings create a feeling of stillness - that they suggest a lull, a sense of portent, slowing a moment right down to its core of frozen energy."

Her work combines a consuming richness of detail and pattern with a powerful dramatic directness.

After two highly sucsessful exhibitions at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in 1993 and 1997 - Helen Flockhart returns with another arresting collection.

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