Duncan Shanks

Duncan Shanks is a Scottish painter, born in Lanarkshire in 1937 and trained at Glasgow School of Art. He is best known for expressive, richly coloured paintings of the landscape around his home near Carluke in the Clyde valley: its woods, waterfalls, orchards and the River Clyde through the seasons. He has taught at Glasgow School of Art and is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. His exhibition The Unseen Journey is at the Hunterian in Glasgow.