Collection: Emilio Fazzi

"Born in Glasgow, being Scottish and Italian is an important part of my make up and I am so grateful to the UK for allowing me to claim both nationalities. In 2023 I was awarded the gold medal from the Town of Lucca for being a citizen of the town who distinguished themselves abroad. I can think of no better place to live than the southside of Glasgow, a city with elegant “paintable” suburbs nestled next to ones that are more downbeat. Much of the Scottish countryside like the Western Highlands, the farmlands of Ayrshire, Edinburgh and the Lowlands, the hills of Stirlingshire are often unappreciated by our population and yet are world class objects to paint, despite the vagaries of our weather.

The long summer months of my youth were spent with my Italian friends who had all studied History of Art in a country where every educated person really knew their artistic onions. Living in an area where every small hilltop town contains some priceless artistic gem, we made a real effort to visit as many sites of artistic interest as we could and were thus able to follow the development of painting from the early middle-ages right through to modern times."