Royal Burgh of Selkirk and District Community Council

Burnside Gallery’s 2025 Christmas exhibition will be a selection of Scottish landscapes from the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, including a big view of Selkirk by Tom Scott.

Tom Scott was born in Selkirk in 1854, the son of a tailor, and studied at the Royal Academy in Edinburgh. He painted in Europe and Africa and eventually settled down in Selkirk again, elected to be Royal Scottish Academician in 1902. He is known for his fine watercolours of the Borders.

Pictured below is The Tweed at Neidpath by George Houston. Also RSA, he was from Ayrshire and painted big watercolours or oils of Scottish hills and rivers, combining a good eye for colour and composition. The hills in the Borders do not seem to have changed since their day.

Burnside have teamed up with Macfarlane Robson Fine Art from Kelso, who have paintings in both oils and watercolour and concentrate on artists from Scotland and the north of England from about 1870 onwards.

48 Market Place, just opposite The Town Arms.

www.burnsidegallery.co.uk