Joan Eardley's Nature of Painting

0:00It's April 2nd, from your city to your ears. This is Edinburgh News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. There's a new exhibition and national galleries of Scotland Modern 2, spotlighting Scottish artists Joan Eardley in a show called The Nature of Painting. It runs from 2 April to 28 June 2026, packing in more than 30 of her expressive works, with 14 straight from the National Collection. Three admission makes it easy to dive in. Alongside the paintings, they've got works on paper and fresh archival material donated by her sister back in 1987, all set up in the Kieler Library. This stuff pulls back the curtain on Eardley's creative process and daily grind. Eardley zeroed in on real life around her, snapping portraits of Glasgow kids, right outside her studio, and wild seascapes from her cottage in the Fishing Village of Catarline. Born in West Sussex, she rolled into Glasgow in 1939, amid World War II, then honed her

1:03skills at Glasgow School of Art. The exhibit links her up with heavyweights like Claude Monet, whose 1891 grain stack snow effect appears here for the first time, plus. John Constable, Betlow, and Antoni Toppies. It draws lines between their outdoor obsessions and raw takes on nature and community, swing by daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. while it's on. These drive to capture truth and paint still hits hard, bridging decades with that human