A Son of the Rock

I’ve been to the City Art Centre, Edinburgh again. They have a retrospective exhibition of the works of Adam Bruce Thomson, of whom I admit that until the exhibition I had never heard.

The Exhibition’s title, The Quiet Path, perhaps explains that a bit. He seems to have been an unassuming man.

He was a very good painter but I was particularly taken by his drawings made during the First World War.

Zeppelin on the Ground:

Making Pontoon Bridge:

Royal Engineers Building a Bridge Near Mons:

Other drawings included Colinton:-

And, Loch Carron: Passing Storm:-

Bringing in the Hay is more colourful:

As is New Galloway:

There were some paintings of Edinburgh scenes.

North Bridge and Salisbury Crags:

The Old Dean Bridge:

And  scenes from elsewhere.

Stooks, East Lothian:

From my bedroom window:

Towards Mull:

Tréboul Harbour, Brittany:

The exhibition is on till the 6th of October.

More of Thomson’s art can be seen here.