Allan Black left Glasgow School of Art in 1980.  He has exhibited in Scotland, England, France, Germany and USA.  He has had solo exhibitions in the MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr, Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, Lillie Gallery, Milngavie and the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, Ohio.

He shows regularly at the Leith Gallery in Edinburgh, and has work in the Copper Moon Gallery, Richfield, Ohio and the Lawrence Churski Gallery, Bath, Ohio.  E-mail

Foreword by Martin Baillie
"However important the mimetic element may be - and it has been much to the fore in the European tradition, achieving in Dutch trompe d'oeil still-lifes remarkable eye-deceiving illusions - a meaningful arrangement of shapes and colours, as shapes and colours, is essential.

These paintings by Allan Black in their intensity of saturated blue green, yellow and red, and amorphous but insistent shapes, come down heavily on the side of structure.  In 'Glencoe' and 'Rannoch Moor' the representation is clear enough though not offered in illusionistic terms, but in others, e.g. 'Shoreline'  or 'Celtic Sunrise' the pungency of the colour contrasts and the shapes pressed to the surface in denial of space, seem to break free of the very scene they delineate - an ambiguity one may find disturbing, or satisfying, or possibly both."