Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams, by Edinburgh-based Barry McGlashan (b. 1974, Aberdeen), documents the past two years of his practice, including the celebrated solo exhibition of the same name at Frestonian Gallery from the spring of 2025. Thresholds, metaphorical and literal, are an omnipresent motif in Barry McGlashan’s evocative paintings. The featured works bring viewers to the edge of lakes, to rivers and roads, and lead to the foot of mountains. Other times the viewer is inside, looking out through windows to the landscape and sky beyond. Transcending time and geography, and reality and folklore, McGlashan’s dream-like, otherworldly paintings are as haunting as they are enchanting.
Designed by Alice Daisy Pomfret and edited by Matt Price, the publication also features works presented by the artist and gallery at Art SG in Singapore in early 2025, as well as documentation of The Distant Ideal, McGlashan’s first presentation at Frestonian in March 2024. With a foreword by Rollo Campbell and Matt Incledon of Frestonian Gallery, a text by McGlashan himself comprising detailed notes about his paintings, and an interview with the artist by Kathryn Lloyd, Contemporary Art Editor at The Burlington Magazine, the publication includes more than fifty of McGlashan’s delightful paintings along with details of selected works and installation photography.
Barry McGlashan – Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams is the first title in Hurtwood’s Artist & Gallery Series, presenting new, recent and selected works by a single artist working nationally and internationally today. The series is distributed in North America by ACC Art Books and internationally by Thames & Hudson.
