Alan McGowan.
Alan McGowan (b. 1964, East Kilbride, Scotland) - Untitled Paintings
Alan McGowan, Three Figures
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ALAN MCGOWAN is a figurative painter based in Scotland. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and completed his post-graduate studies at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1991. From 1987 to 1996 he worked mainly as an illustrator producing drawings, paintings and portraits for The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph, The Independant, Scholastic press USA, and many others. During this period he also taught illustration, drawing and printmaking at The University of Northumbria, and as a visiting lecturer to Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art in Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art and Hull School of Art. In 1997 he produced a suite of large scale charcoal drawings as illustrations to “Faust” by Goethe which was exhibited and toured within the UK. Since that time he has been actively involved in exhibiting painting and his works appear in private collections in the UK and in the USA, Norway, Switzerland and Ireland. He is currently based in Edinburgh
Cass Art catches up with Alan McGowan, the second heat winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014, about his round, his painting and his influences
ALAN MCGOWAN is a figurative painter based in Scotland. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and completed his post-graduate studies at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1991. From 1987 to 1996 he worked mainly as an illustrator producing drawings, paintings and portraits for The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph, The Independant, Scholastic press USA, and many others. During this period he also taught illustration, drawing and printmaking at The University of Northumbria, and as a visiting lecturer to Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art in Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art and Hull School of Art. In 1997 he produced a suite of large scale charcoal drawings as illustrations to “Faust” by Goethe which was exhibited and toured within the UK. Since that time he has been actively involved in exhibiting painting and his works appear in private collections in the UK and in the USA, Norway, Switzerland and Ireland. He is currently based in Edinburgh
Alan McGowan
Cass Art catches up with Alan McGowan, the second heat winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014, about his round, his painting and his influences
Alan va nous permettre de découvrir Yakima Canutt dans son deuxième western parlant où il brille en tant que star et cascadeur. Le précédent, ‘Bar L Ranch’ d’Harry S. Webb, est sorti quelques jours avant Canyon’s Hawks avec en vedette Jay Wilsey. Alan James n’est pas crédité au générique de la version de 1930 qui est signée J.P. McGowan réalisateur prolifique de Westerns B. Le Cattleman Jack Benson trouve sur ses terres George Manning, un jeune éleveur de moutons qui fait paître son troupeau à son insu. Jack Benson le somme de partir et en se rendant à une cabane située non loin, il rencontre Mildred Manning la sœur du kid qui le séduit. Il lui accorde le droit de jouir de ses terres et plus tard lui léguera une partie de son domaine. De retour à son ranch, ses cowboys acceptent très mal la conduite de leur patron Jack Benson. L’un d’eux, Steve le chef de bande des Canyon’s Hawks, veut alors s’emparer du poste de Jack Benson en tentant d’influencer le sheriff Jackson. Canyon’s Hawks est le remake de ‘Rangeland’ de 1922 réalisé par Paul Hurst, auteur, scénariste et réalisateur. Une durée d'à peine 40 minutes car il manquerait environ 15 minutes toujours introuvables à ce jour. Les endroits de tournage :Mystery Canyon, Santa Clarita Valley, Californie. Yakima Canutt...Jack Benson Renee Borden...Mildred Manning Buzz Barton...George Manning Robert Walker...Steve aka The Hawk Bobby Dunn...Shorty Bob Reeves ...Sheriff Jackson Hal Taliaferro...Dick Carson Cliff Lyons ...Tom Hardy Hank Bell...Advice Giver Ben Corbett...White-Shirted Man Outside Saloon
Sequel to Riding in Style; the First Twenty-Five Years. A memoir of a life \"thinking outside the box.\" 230 pages. 42 photographs and drawings. Alan McGowan's stories of solving problems, inventions, daring feats of driving in the North. Sequel to Riding in Style; the First Twenty-Five Years. A memoir of a life \"thinking outside the box.\" 230 pages. 42 photographs and drawings. Alan McGowan's stories of solving problems, inventions, daring feats of driving in the North. At the end of his first memoir, Alan McGowan was newly married and had moved up to Kitimat to work for Alcan. In this memoir he continues the story from the chaos of those first days, when over a thousand men showed up in the wilderness to run an aluminum smelter and create an instant town. McGowan stayed with Alcan for more than three decades, raising a family, working in all areas of the plant and learning a lot about smelting and even more about people. With a sharp eye for detail, he writes about the men and women of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds who arrived in Kitimat in 1954: men who ten years earlier had fought on different sides in the Second World War, others who were on the run from trouble in their home country, some who went \"Bunkhouse Happy\" after too long in the bush, and always those working the angles to get something for nothing from the company. Over the years, McGowan also learned the value, and danger, of thinking outside the box--whether that meant setting up the Early Riser Cooperative Bus Line, then getting a class one licence so he could drive the workers from Terrace to Kitimat in all weathers himself; or working with colleagues to figure out how to smelt aluminum more efficiently and with less pollution. McGowan also describes creating and launching his own inventions through Alcan and on his own, after retirement, including his most successful invention, the curling aid, or curl stick, a device that allows curlers with disabilities to play the sport standing up. The device is now used around the world. As McGowan says about his life, \"I relished the challenges and thoroughly enjoyed myself.\" That joie de vivre is clear on every page of this memoir.
