In good condition, signed in pencil and in its original frame and mount.Measures 38 cm wide by 25 cm deep (62 cm by 60 cm in its frame.A super little pastel by the great Scottish contemporary artist John Byrne, entitled “Boy On A Beach”. In 1997 twins Honor and Xavier were born to John and Tilda. John Byrne Painting John Patrick Byrne (born 6 January 1940) is a Scottish playwright and artist. John studied painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1958 – 1963. In 1993 John’s play about the two Scottish painters ‘Colquhoun and MacBryde’ was produced at the Royal Court. It seems that this was partly to do with John’s amusement at inventing odd characters, and also thinking that a gallery which at the time exhibited self – taught artists might not be interested in work by a highly skilled art school trained painter. The work of Portal Painters has always remained outside the fads and fashions of the art world. In the same year John adapted ‘The Government Inspector’ for The Playhouse Company.In 2000 as an appreciation of one of their most talented sons Paisley Museum put on a major retrospective.In 2004 Byrne wrote ‘Uncle Vannick’ a Scottish adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Signed lower right and in good condition in its original frame and mount.Measures 22 cm wide by 19.5 cm deep (40.5 cm by 39 cm in its frame. He had also designed for the Traverse, 7:84, Hampstead Theatre, Bush Theatre, Scottish Opera and the Citizens Theatre. Contrary to the lurid tales that were spread when the news broke, this was never a ménage à trois, but rather a civilised arrangement by which friendships could be preserved, with Byrne moving out when Kopp moved in. Tag: John Byrne Born in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme in Paisley, Renfrewshire – one of the roughest housing estates in Scotland at the time – John Byrne was educated at the town’s St Mirin’s Academy before attending Glasgow School of Art from which he graduated in 1963, undoubtedly one of the finest artists of his generation.
John Byrne was born in Glasgow in 1940. In the same year John adapted ‘The Government Inspector’ for The Playhouse Company.In 2000 as an appreciation of one of their most talented sons Paisley Museum put on a major retrospective.In 2004 Byrne wrote ‘Uncle Vannick’ a Scottish adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Byrne was not ventriloquising any more.The question of a Scottish voice was important, for following the failed devolution referendum of 1979, in the 1980s Scotland fell under the hammer of Thatcherism, and its writers and artists were looking for ways to establish a contemporary Scottish cultural identity.
His teachers noted his ability to ventriloquise the styles of modern masters, from Bonnard to Picasso.

His most consistent motif is the self-portrait – he once told me that for him, even a still life is a self-portrait. The work of Portal Painters has always remained outside the fads and fashions of the art world. In 2008 John wrote a fourth play in the Slab Boys series entitled ‘Nova Scotia’, and in 2010 his version of the Cherry Orchard was premiered at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh.A self – portrait and portraits of Robbie Coltrane, Billy Connolly and Tilda Swinton hang in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.‘The Joyful Mysteries’ an exhibition at London’s Fine Art Society in 2012 was a sell-out.In 2013 John was asked to design and paint the cupola of The Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh – follow this link to see him painting it bit.ly/18uHgzWPortal Painters has been exhibiting finely detailed figurative paintings by a unique group of artists for over fifty years. John wrote and directed a film of the ‘Slab Boys’ in 1996.

In spite of his precocious talent for drawing, Byrne settled for a lowly job at one of Paisley’s carpet factories as a “slab boy”, an apprentice who ground and mixed paint for the firm’s textile designers. As well as his achievements in the graphic arts, Byrne has written for TV and Theatre, including award-winning plays for the UK and Broadway and the six-time BAFTA award-winning TV series, Tutti Frutti in 1986.A super mixed media work entited “Fallen” by the Paisley-born artist John Byrne.


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