[Decorative glazed panel depicting a standing stone in a landscape] [art original] /
Rae, Barbara,1943-
[Scotland],
[1988?]
An art original.
Statement by the artist: The panel depicts a standing stone in a landscape - a symbolic place of texture and coloured strata. An inscribed perpendicular stone indicates the still powerful presence of our ancestors. Some of the materials used in the panel are either by nature textural, e.g. fibrous Japanese papers, or have a surface texture imprinted on them by means of the monotype technique, or by "rubbing" - frotage. These pieces enhanced by transparent inks and with the addition of coloured acetates have been collaged together to form the panel.
One of a series of twelve decorative glazed panels which were previously arranged on levels 3 to 7 of the north facade of the National Library of Scotland's Causewayside Building. A group of Scottish artists were commissioned to create these panels which were then incorporated into the building which opened in 1988. The artists represented are Barbara Rae, Elizabeth Blackadder, Gordon Bryce, John Houston, William Littlejohn, Frances Walker, Glen Onwin, William Crosbie, Michael Docherty, Charles Pulsford, Ian McKenzie Smith and George Donald.
Glass painting and staining
Glass art