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• 'Buttercup and kingcup bright' - Edward Thomas
  20 January 2019

• 'Who owns this landscape?...' - In Arcadia II
  5 January 2019

• Portrait of Vivienne, Vincent and Scooter, 2018
  1 September 2018

• Life Drawing
  31 December 2017

  Life Drawings by Janie Alston, 1952-57

• "Miss Alston has vision", Janie Alston at GSA 1952-1957
  16 December 2017

  Drawing and Painting in the General Course at GSA, under the tutelage of William Drummond Bone.

• Portraits of Janie Alston, sculptor, (b. 1936)
  1 January 2016

• Gavin Alston, artist, 1926-1963
  31 December 2015

• The image of Punch in the work of Gavin Alston
  29 October 2015

• The theme of the Commedia dell'arte in the work of Gavin Alston
  26 October 2015

  Gavin, Janie, and Tony and Angela Armstrong visit Italy, c. 1958

• Gavin Alston, mural painter, 1926-1963, Teacher of Art at Kingsridge Secondary School, Glasgow.
  7 March 2015

  Gavin taught at the secondary school at the beginning of the 1960s.

• 'Et In Arcadia Ego'
  4 January 2015

  Recent sketchbook work - musing, meditations and variations on the theme of Arcadia.

• Gavin Alston, mural painter, 1926-1963
  27 December 2014

  'It seems almost unbelievable that someone so young and apparently healthy should slip away so quickly.' H. Jefferson Barnes, GSA, 1963.

• Illustrations based on the Battle of Britain pilot, Richard Hillary, by Gavin Alston, c.1960
  23 December 2014

  'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few', Sir Winston Churchill. Illustrations for a Scottish television programme to commemorate the Battle of Britain , circa 1960.

• The Abbey Church of La Madeleine, Vezelay.
  5 June 2014

  The inspiration of Gislebertus!

• The Glasgow School of Art, circa. 1957.
  21 May 2014

  Musings on my mother's time at Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s.

• 'The Seven Deadly Sins and The Devil Unmasked' by Gavin Alston, circa 1962-3
  16 May 2014

  8 large Monotypes of the 'Seven Deadly Sins and the Devil' based on Spencer's The Faerie Queene.

• 'The Crucifixion', 'The Pieta', 'The Judas Kiss', by Gavin Alston c. 1961-2
  20 April 2014

  Religious work by Gavin Alston, mostly pen and ink or gouache and ink.

• Gavin Alston, Mural Painter and teacher at Glasgow School of Art.
  17 February 2014

  Jill Bernhardi, a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1951, recalls her first year as a student and remembers her teacher, Gavin Alston

• Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! at Somerset House, London
  17 February 2014

• Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
  11 January 2014

  Swan Lake at Sadler's Wells, December 2013