December [December, Peacock Printmakers Calendar, 1976]
Artist: Bryce, Gordon, RSA · b. 1943Printmaker, editioning: Cordiner, Stewart Buchan · b. 1949Publisher: Peacock Printmakers
Invited by the board of Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen to produce the image for February in the Peacock Calendar Suite, 1976.
The artists selected to collaborate were a mixture of established and emerging printmakers and painters with little or no previous printmaking experience. For the established printmakers the hope was that they would experiment with a medium outwith that which they normally adopted.
Bryce was a painter rather than a printmaker. Nonetheless, his evocative wintery print signalled a new development which his paintings were to take. Up to this point he had been working largely with abstraction. Landscape, particularly of Aberdeenshire and the West of Scotland then began to dominate his output. Bryce was born in Edinburgh and studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art under Philipson and Gillies. After graduating he was appointed a lecturer in Printmaking at Gray’s in Aberdeen. From 1986 to 1995 he was head of Fine Art there.
Stuart Cordiner editioned this print for the suite.See notes provided by Arthur Watson on 30 Oct 2025 in record images.
The first major collaboration between the Printmakers and such a large number of artists
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Date 1976 Accession 2020.0117.12 Type Print Lithograph Materials Support paper
Medium InkDimensions Image
24.9cm x 25.2cm
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40.5cm x 40.5cmAcquisition Gift The family of the late Willie Rodger RSA RGI DUniv (February 7th, 2020) -
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