The Clyde stank, you couldn't see the sunshine, and people lived in overcrowded tenements – no wonder the Glasgow Boys preferred to paint nostalgic rural scenes than the city from which they took their name, argues Ian Jack

ANNE McKenna and Pat McLean's childhood faces stared out at the world from the artist's works, but later fell on hard times. Now they are to take to the stage for a community opera.

Just by way of a bit of fun, I’ve put together a list of four under-rated British realist painters from the last century. They aren’t ranked...

ANNE McKenna and Pat McLean's childhood faces stared out at the world from the artist's works, but later fell on hard times. Now they are to take to the stage for a community opera.

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My work is part-figurative, part-magical realism; in my paintings I aim to conjure the imaginary-magical landscapes of childhood hand in hand with the 'archetypal landscapes' of the human psyche.