{"id":312479,"date":"2025-11-28T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312479\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:20:05","slug":"glasgow-artists-collaborate-on-painting-of-vincent-van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312479\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow artists collaborate on painting of Vincent van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RossRoss Muir Art<\/p>\n

Peter Howson and Ross Muir met while walking their dogs in Glasgow’s west end<\/p>\n

An art collaboration between two of Scotland’s most notable painters Peter Howson and Ross Muir has been revealed.<\/p>\n

The pair have joined forces to create a painting of artist Vincent van Gogh, which combines Howson’s powerful, muscular style with Muir’s trademark twist of a retro Adidas tracksuit.<\/p>\n

Entitled Two Sons, the work of art is a remake of Muir’s Square Gogh piece, which brought him to national fame in 2018.<\/p>\n

The collaboration began by chance when Howson and Muir met while walking their dogs in a park in Glasgow’s west end.<\/p>\n

The painting will go on public display in 2026 at an undisclosed venue before going on private sale.<\/p>\n

\"RossRoss Muir Art<\/p>\n

The new Two Sons painting is a remake of Muir’s viral Square Gogh with Howson’s muscular style<\/p>\n

Muir, who is known for his witty re-imaginings of iconic artworks, told the BBC’s Radio Scotland’s Breakfast<\/a> he was confident he could combine his and Howson’s styles.<\/p>\n

“We had had a couple of conversations and I kept thinking I could do Square Gogh in his style,” he said. <\/p>\n

“I started it by myself, but then the painting got better and better.<\/p>\n

“It was looking more like his, it was looking more like mine, so I sent an image to him and eventually he told me he loved it – it just worked.”<\/p>\n

\"RossRoss Muir Art<\/p>\n

Muir’s Square Gogh painting went viral in 2018 and was recognised by the Van Gogh Museum<\/p>\n

Throughout the 1980s, Howson, who had spent time in the army and travelling before returning to Glasgow, became known for his depictions of working-class life which told stories of economic hardship and social tension. <\/p>\n

He became the official British war artist for Bosnia in the 1990s, where he created some of his most-talked about works, including The Massacre of Srebrenica.<\/p>\n

Muir said: “Peter is one of the greatest living artists of our time, and I’ve looked up to him since the day I first picked up a brush. <\/p>\n

“You can’t escape his influence in the Glasgow art scene – his work is everywhere, in the best collections and in every conversation about painting. <\/p>\n

“And when you finally see a Howson piece in the flesh, you understand exactly why.”<\/p>\n

The background of the artwork echoes Van Gogh’s Starry Night with two suns hanging in the sky that aim to represent the meeting of the two artists and their styles.<\/p>\n

“Two Sons is both of us on the canvas, exactly as we are,” Muir added.<\/p>\n

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Muir said the combination of his and Howson’s styles “just worked”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ross Muir Art Peter Howson and Ross Muir met while walking their dogs in Glasgow’s west end An…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-312479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}