JACK VETTRIANO
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Jack Vettriano Biography
Born in Fife in 1951, Jack Vettriano has emerged from the unlikely background of an early working life in the Scottish coal-fields to become one of Britain's best known contemporary artists; he is entirely self taught. His work first came to public prominence at the Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition in 1988. Since then there have been sell out exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and New York.
In 2003, Jack Vettriano was awarded an Honorary doctorate from St Andrew's University and an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts. In April 2004, his painting The Singing Butler was sold at Sotheby's for in excess of £700,000 a record breaking price for a painting by a Scottish artist.
Vettriano's last exhibition with Portland Gallery, 'Love, Devotion and Surrender', was in April 2006 and a selection of images from this exhibition may be viewed on this website.
Portland Gallery no longer represents the artist, Jack Vettriano. Accordingly, while the gallery will continue to buy and sell original oil paintings by Vettriano in the secondary market, no exhibitions of new work will be held here.
No new limited edition prints will be published by Portland Gallery but prints from the existing limited editions will remain available for purchase from us while stocks last.
Exhibitions:
| 1992 | Tales of Love and Other Stories, Edinburgh Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels, Catto Gallery, London | |
| 1993 | Summers Remembered, Corrymella Scott Gallery, Newcastle | |
| 1994 | Chimes at Midnight, Portland Gallery, London | |
| 1994 | After Midnight, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg | |
| 1995 | A Date With Fate, Edinburgh Festival, Endinburgh | |
| 1996 | The Passion and the Pain, Portland Gallery, London | |
| 1996 | Halfway to Paradise, Portland Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| 1997 | Small Paintings and Studies, Portland Gallery, Edinburgh Festival | |
| 1998 | Between Darkness and Dawn, Portland Gallery, London | |
| 1999 | International 20th Century Art & Design Fair, New York | |
| 2000 | Lovers and Other Strangers, Portland Gallery, London | |
| 2001 | International 20th Century Art & Design Fair, New York | |
| 2002 | Paintings 1994-2002, Portland Gallery, Art London 2002, London | |
| 2004 | Affairs of the Heart, Portland Gallery, London | |
| 2006 | Love, Devotion and Surrender, Portland Gallery, London |
Books:
W. Gordon Smith Ed.: Fallen Angels, Pavilion Books, Published October 1994
Anthony Quinn: Lovers and Other Strangers, Pavilion Books, Published June 2000
Anthony Quinn: Jack Vettriano, Pavilion Books, Published October 2004
Radio and Television:
Jack Vettriano has been featured in many radio and television programmes, including:
Heaven and Hell, X-S Series, BBC Scotland, 1999
Seven Days, STV, July 2000
Jack Vettriano: The People's Painter, The South Bank Show, ITV, March 2004
Breakfast with Frost, BBC1, March 2004
Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, April 2004
Sunday Morning Show, CBS News, July 2004
Sentimental Journey, BBC Radio 4, July 2006
Sunday AM, Interview with Andrew Marr, BB1, May 2007