Whisky has long helped provide the inspiration for some artists. Glenfiddich even provides a home for artists each year. Robin Laing looks at the connection
Over the last three years visitors to Glenfiddich have had the usual distillery tour experience enhanced by being exposed to various art forms.
There is a gallery in the former distilleryshop where they have been able to enjoy, or puzzle over, art works ranging from paintings, photography, figurati...
By Robin Laing
from Issue 45 published on 21/1/2005
Brian Hennigan swaps palate for palette as he takes you on an irreverent journey through the whisky-loving Renaissance and sipping surrealists to modern art and its relationship with malts
Most of us would be hard-pressed to operate an Etch-a-Sketch with a few tumblers of Scotland’s finest inside us, while artists by their very nature respond as if newly enlightened to the touch of spirit in the belly.
“I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are,” said Michelangelo, a man fond o...
By Brian Hennigan
from Issue 21 published on 16/2/2002
Ian Buxton explores the whisky industy's shift from patron to sponsor of visual art.
Fancying himself an artist, whisky baron Tommy Dewar once painted a cow in a meadow and asked a friend for his opinion. ‘The ship seems alright,’ he was told, ‘but I think you have made the sea too green.’
This little story is, perhaps, a metaphor for whisky’s place in art history. Despite its stat...
By Ian Buxton
from Issue 12 published on 16/11/2000
Art and commerce can be a potent cocktail and one of which distillers are becoming increasingly aware . Annie Davies looks at the success of designer bottles and labels
Atendril of smoke, a suggestion of peat, the delicate whisper of vanilla, or even, as in one celebrated case, a lick of Liquorice Allsort: blending whisky, composing the seemingly limitless number of tastes and fragrances into a magnificent drink, is akin to creating a masterpiece.
As Seagram’s fou...
By Anne Davies
from Issue 8 published on 16/2/2000
