JOE HARGAN DA PAI PPAISaturday 25th October to Sunday 2nd November 2014

THE LEMOND GALLERYSCOTTISH CONTEMPORARY FINE ART

Front Cover – (Cropped Image) Something FishyOil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Art MattersOil on Canvas, 40” x 40”

THE LEMOND GALLERYCONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH FINE ART

Joe Hargan DA PAI PPAISaturday 25th October to Sunday 2nd November 2014

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Please note that this Catalogue features only a selection of around 35 paintings in the ExhibitionA full list of exhibition paintings are detailed on our website – www.lemondgallery.com

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JOE HARGAN DA PPAI PAIMetaphorically speaking

Joe Hargan is enigmatic – he is a charming and a real character.

Hargan is highly respected and stands out among Scottish artists as he rejects the pastiche (imitation) and

is his own man, with his own unique artistic style – that is why his art is so interesting to his many collectors.

He is likened to the JK Rowling of the Scottish art scene – he brings his own visually-literate genius into our

viewing environment.

Hargan is proud of the fact that his skills were honed in one of the greatest periods of Scottish artistic

training; when drawing and painting and how to use materials were rigorously taught. He describes taking

several hours to do a single study of a model in the morning and then being asked to do multiple fifteen

minute paintings of the same model in the afternoon – the difference between a tight and a more energetic

and spirited drawing. Hargan asserts that many of his best drawings were when he used his instincts rather

than use every last detail of observation.

You get some insight into how he has chosen to apply his training roots when he references renaissance art

and the romantic period and uses such terms as ‘elegant’, ‘swashbuckling’ and ‘aspirational’.

He dismisses post-impressionist modern art in his typical witty fashion, as being ‘like tea going cold’.

Hargan conjured up the character ‘Sniffy’, who looks bumptious but likeable and who has now become

almost universally famous. In creating the personality, who someone suggested ‘looked a bit sniffy’, he was

unaware that the character would provoke such a strong response and positive reaction. The character

allows him to create humorous narratives or little playlets. He invites the viewer to pour over his studies and

to work to interpret the various symbolic devices and metaphors contained within, what he terms his little

‘happenings’ or compositions. Sniffy is always in profile. Hargan is unsure of where the Sniffy journey is

going, or when it will end. Sniffy has been incredibly successful, but Hargan does not want to be typecast –

there is much more to his art and that is evidenced in the breadth of what he is prepared to tackle in his

painting range. Interestingly, in this show, Hargan has also included several studies that subtly and

humorously reference the recent Scottish Referendum debate, which make these important time-mark

paintings.

Joe Hargan studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art (GSA) from 1970 to 1974 under Danny

Ferguson, Jimmy Robertson, Duncan Shanks and David Donaldson. His paintings have now attained

investment class status and have a worldwide following; indeed, one of his paintings hangs in Mrs Ford’s

(car fame) collection between her Braque’s and Picasso’s.

The Amateur, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

The Cellist, Oil on Canvas, 28” x 28” A Weight Off his Mind, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Intermission, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Arrangement in Blue, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

The Party Trick, Oil on Canvas, 40” x 40”

A Classic View, Oil on Canvas, 28” x 28”

A Little Browned Off, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Something Fishy, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Figures in a LandscapeOil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Decisions, Decisions, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Little Fish, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Food For Thought, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

In the PictureOil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Still LifeOil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Back Cover (Cropped Image)A Tall OrderOil on Canvas, 20” x 20”

Joe Hargan DA PAI PPAIwww.lemondgallery.com

THE LEMOND GALLERYSCOTTISH CONTEMPORARY FINE ART