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William Landles (25 November 1923 – 17 August 2016) was a Scottish
William Landles (25 November 1923 – 17 August 2016) was a Scottish artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
and sculptor
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
from the Scottish Borders town of Hawick
Hawick ( ; sco, Haaick; gd, Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-south-east of Selkirk. It is one of ...
.
Born in Hawick he left school at the age of fourteen to start an apprenticeship as a grocer. A self-taught sculptor, he was noticed and mentored by the renowned Scottish artist Anne Redpath, whom he remained friends with for the rest of her life. She and others encouraged Landles and he won a scholarship to study at the Edinburgh College of Art in the early 1950s. He went on to qualify in teaching and became a school master in Art at Hawick High School
Hawick High School is a non-denominational secondary school in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders. As well as serving the town, it also takes in pupils from as far away as Newcastleton.
History
The first mention of educational provision in the a ...
until his retirement in 1980.
Two of his public sculptures are situated in his home town of Hawick, including the iconic portrait of poet James Thomson on the Thompson Bridge. Landles was responsible for the bronzes used in the Roberton and Bourke cairns of Scottish Border poet and Australian bush balladeer Will H. Ogilvie
Will H. Ogilvie (21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion. He ...
(1869–1963). His work has been exhibited repeatedly at the Scottish Royal Academy, in exhibitions across Scotland and is in private collections around the world.
William Landles died on 17 August 2016, aged 92, and is buried in Hawick
Hawick ( ; sco, Haaick; gd, Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-south-east of Selkirk. It is one of ...
.
References
1923 births 2016 deaths Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art People from Hawick Scottish sculptors Scottish male sculptors {{Scotland-artist-stub