Paintings by 'glesca artist' (Read 68,563 times)

[Webmaister]

henrietta many thanks for showing us your paintings - fabulous. I am sure they'll be a great talking point in your home when you have visitors.

[Deleted]

Hi Glesca Artist
You wrote
Ah think yer right aboot the GlescaPals meetin' up at the toll. But wi' the gait o' the man above the horse's bum an' the wan tae the right o' the horse's heid, ah think they've already been tae a "GP Hoose Party".

Aye and ah think the wye the hoarse is hingin its heed, its been ther tae

[glesca artist]

Ah think ye might be right Eddie.

[glesca artist]

henrietta many thanks for letting the other Glesca Pals see the paintings you commissioned. They both look great framed and I'm delighted you love them. As you and other buyers have pointed out, the actual paintings look much better than the digital images shown online.

[glesca artist]

Oct 3, 2010 18:10:49 GMT jenny said:

Hi, are you related in anyway to Jim Neilly who at one time lived at 24 Edmiston Street, Parkhead

I've sent hamilton a personal message regarding this post.

[bettyb]

Absolutely Fantastic glesca artist but i've said that before to you.
Great stuff.

bettyb

[glesca artist]

Thanks bettyb.

[glesca artist]

Evelyn Moloney, Baillieston, bought this painting of Ruby Street Tram Depot as a Christmas gift for her friend.




Evelyn said: "....I love this painting and I know my friend will be delighted with it. It will bring back fond memories of the East End."

[glesca artist]

Jerry Mackie, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, treated his wife Gwen to this surprise Christmas gift drawing of Clarence their 16 year old cat.

The graphite drawing was completed on Extra Smooth Bristol Board (250 gsm/ 115 lbs) measuring 297 x 210 mm (approx. 12" x 8") and was mounted and framed under glass. It was signed and dated by glesca artist, William Neilly, in December 2010.



Jerry wrote: "...thanks so much for this William, she will be surprised, and thanks for doing it so quickly."

Further examples of paintings by glesca artist can be seen at: www.glescapals.com/profiles/wneilly.htm - a web site specially designed by the Webmaister.

[glesca artist]

This double portrait "Courtney & Emma" was painted from a reference photograph provided by Nicola and Stephen Mason, Bothwell, Lanarkshire. It was painted using acrylic on canvas board measuring 508 x 406 mm (approx. 20" x 16") and is protected with two coats of satin varnish. It was signed and dated by glesca artist, William Neilly, in December 2010.



Nicola & Stephen wrote..."the painting of our daughters Courtney & Emma is brilliant, one that we will treasure."

[glesca artist]

John and Ellen Neilly, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, have enjoyed this drawing of their Norwegian Elkhound dog Thor for almost twenty-five years.

The graphite drawing was completed on cartridge paper measuring 610mm x 450mm (24" x 18") and was signed and dated by glesca artist, William Neilly in 1986.



If you would like to immortalize the image of your favourite pet or loved one with a pencil drawing or an original acrylic painting contact glesca artist.

[glesca artist]

"Washday Blues" is a nostalgic painting of weans playing in the backcourts of Glesca tenements during the redevelopment of the area in the late 1950's and the early 1960's. The painting is an original composition using acrylic on canvas board measuring 508 x 406mm (20" x 16") and is protected with two coats of gloss varnish. It was signed and dated by glesca artist, William M. Neilly, in February 2011.



The youngsters, kitted out in their Rangers and Celtic football strips, play in the backcourt of typical Glasgow tenement houses which are in the process of being demolished due to re-development of the area. The "young firm" are being observed and encouraged from the sidelines by other kids standing behind the goalie. One woman is hanging out her washing having just taken her turn in the backcourt wash house. Two other women are having a blether and hoping that the dirty football doesn't hit their clean washing. The big boy is about to catch a "piece" being thrown down to him from the woman hanging out the third storey window. The boy re-assures his Ma that her other weans are happily playing round the side of the building where the remains of fireplaces and cooker recesses can be seen on the plaster flaking gable end. A little girl enjoys playing in the puddle which is being created by waste water leaking from the tenement drain pipe. Her pal enjoys swinging round the clothes pole. Eight weans play at the gable end while other Glesca Pals go about their daily business.

[glesca artist]

I painted "Dalmarnock Crossover at Birkwood Street", using acrylic on canvas board measuring 406 x 305mm (approx. 16" x 12") and protected the painting with two coats of gloss varnish. It was signed and dated by glesca artist, William M. Neilly, in February 2011 and was purchased by Brian Collins, Ardrossan, Ayrshire.




This nostalgic view of Dalmarnock Road is typical of the area around the late 1950's. Looking south towards Rutherglen, Dalmarnock Bridge is shown in the background with the factories in Downiebrae Road on the south bank of the River Clyde. Dalmarnock electric power station is on the right and the number 46 Corporation motor bus is en route to Cranhill from Castlemilk via Bridgeton Cross followed by a taxi cab.

The number 30 standard hex dash tramcar is about to use the crossover at its terminus at Birkwood Street, located immediately to the left of the Evening Times delivery van. It will then head to Blairdardie in the northwest of the city via Parkhead Cross and St George's Cross. The number 30 tram service Blairdardie and Dalmarnock ran from 31 July 1949 until 12 March 1960 when it and the number 1 Dalmarnock and Yoker tram services were withdrawn. They were replaced by the motor bus service number 58 Dalmarnock and Dalmuir West with its terminus in Baltic Street at Garvald Street.

On 7 August 1955 following the removal of trams from Main Street, Rutherglen, Burnside trams were diverted from Bridgeton Cross to run via Dalmarnock Road, Farmeloan Road and Stonelaw Road. The Rutherglen portion was curtailed at Shawfield and renumbered 18A. The number 18 Coronation tramcar from Burnside is enroute to Springburn via Hope Street. On 3 June 1961 the number 18 tram service Springburn and Burnside was withdrawn and replaced by the number 18 motor bus service.

[jasdell]

Great painting owe the trams oan Dalmarnock road 'Glesca Artist'. A used tae drive the No's 18 (Springburn-Burnside) an the 30(Blairdardie-Dalmarnock). In the early 1960's the number 30 used tae terminate an turn roon at the boattom owe Springfield Road.

[glesca artist]

Glad ye like the painting jasdell. Ah bet it wis great drivin' the caurs.

According tae Glesca Corporation, on 15 August 1943 the number 30 tram service was reintroduced with its terminus at the crossover at the south end of Springfield Road, jist like ye say jasdell.

On 8 April 1945 the number 30 tram service was extended from Springfield Road (alternate cars) to Cambuslang via Dalmarnock Road, Farme Cross, Cambuslang Road, and Main Street Cambuslang.

On 23 January 1949 the service to Cambuslang was withdrawn and the Springfield Road runs extended to Dalmarnock via Dalmarnock Road to the cross over at Birkwood Street, as shown in my painting.

On 31 July 1949 a new extension (private track) opened from Knightswood Cross to Blairdardie Canal Bridge and the number 30 tram service became Blairdardie and Dalmarnock.

On 12 March 1960 the number 30 service Blairdardie, Knightswood or Anniesland and Dalmarnock was withdrawn and replaced along with tram service number 1, by motor bus Service 58.

Ah lived roon the corner fae Birkwood Street, in Woddrop Street, and some o' mah pals lived in the tenements opposite the electric power station. Ah can clearly remember the tram caurs as tho' it wis yesterday.

[glesca artist]

My painting of "Woddrop Street, Dalmarnock, - 1950's" is an original composition using acrylic on canvas board measuring 508 x 406mm (20" x 16"). It is protected with two coats of gloss varnish and was signed and dated by glesca artist, William M. Neilly, in May 2011.



Woddrop Street, located in the south east of Glasgow runs parallel to Dalmarnock Road between Allan Street and the River Clyde at Dalmarnock Bridge. Looking south from Allan Street towards Rutherglen the painting shows the three types of housing available to residents at the end of World War II (1939 - 1945) and weans playing in the street around the 1950's.

Dunclutha Street on the left leads to Dalmarnock Recreation Ground which had football pitches, bowling greens and tennis courts. Birkwood Street on the right leads to Dalmarnock Road at the junction of which is The Boundary Bar public house and opposite Dalmarnock Power Station.

On the right of the painting are the four-storey, red sandstone, tenements built on the grounds of Dalmarnock House in the early 20th century. Dalmarnock House, an old country house of the Glasgow gentry, was built around 1784 on the lands of Dalmarnock owned by the Woddrop family. Opposite are the "modern" grey sandstone, three-storey tenements, built by Glasgow Corporation at the end of the war. Beyond these are temporary housing, prefabricated buildings known as "prefabs", which were erected between 1944 and 1949.

The electric generating sub-station behind the prefabs is all that remains of the scene today. The industrial works in the background are located in Downiebrae Road, Rutherglen, on the south bank of the River Clyde. The Rivet, Nut & Bolt Company was among the works that provided local employment and Christmas parties for the weans of employees.

The Neilly family lived at number 17 Woddrop Street, ground floor left, from 1949 until 1963 and then top right from 1963 until 1981 when the property underwent refurbishment. By August 2006 all residential property in Woddrop Street had been demolished with the exception of some housing under the auspices of the Glasgow Eastern Area Regeneration (GEAR) project.

The grey sandstone tenements comprised three and four apartment flats with kitchen and bathroom. The living room was heated by coal fire with back boiler that provided hot water on tap. Each bedroom was heated with a gas fire and the kitchen had a gas-fired wash boiler, twin tubs and gas cooker. Communal grassed backcourts served as both washing drying greens and play areas. Ground floor tenants enjoyed their own front garden.

The prefabs were erected until more permanent building could be started. They were delivered on a lorry and erected within hours on a concrete foundation. They were similar in style to a bungalow with front and large rear gardens with a shed to store coke (fuel for heating) and garden tools. The prefabs in Woddrop Street/ Dunclutha Street were a small part of the temporary housing which was concentrated between Allan Street/ Summerfield Street and Ardenlea Street. The prefabs had a front, side and rear entrance and comprised two bedrooms with fitted wardrobes; living room with coke fired burner; bathroom with separate toilet (without washhand basin); hot water on tap and a kitchen with the latest appliances such as twin wash tubs, wash boiler, cooker and refrigerator.

In the 1950's very few motor vehicles used Woddrop Street and traffic consisted mainly of horse-drawn carts like the coalman's cart shown in the painting. The rag man was a common sight as was children playing games in the street. Occasionally the "Penny Gandy", a pony and trap, would come into the street to provide "penny rides" round the block. It would start in Woddrop Street at the prefabs, turn into Dunclutha Street past the bowling greens and tennis courts, turn into Ardenlea Street and then into Allan Street past the allotment gardens and the Hair Factory before turning back into Woddrop Street. The Penny Gandy also did the other "blocks" in the area.

[mugginz]

When ah left hame, ma neighbour gave me a wee paintin' wi Glesca tenements, and wimmin hingin' oot the windies watchin' weans playin' in the street. Two wee boys..wan in a celtic strip, and wan in a rangers strip, playin' wi a baw the gither. Cannae take it oot it's frame, and cannae see a name oan it, but wid that be wan o yours?

[jasdell]

Glesca Artist, see ye managed tae finish yer latest project. Great painting wie the different types of Glesca hooses an the kids awe playing happily away. Pity there's no a tramcaur in it.

[glesca artist]

It's no' wan o' mah paintin's mugginz. Although ah've painted several wi' wummin hingin' oot windaes watchin' weans in Rangers an' Celtic strips playin' fitba' - eg see Washday Blues above and Hingin' oot A Windae below.

[glesca artist]

Aye jasdell but as ye know the tram caurs didnae come intae Woddrop Street. They used the Dalmarnock Crossover tae turn aroon instead. ;D

However when the number 63 Corporation motor bus did use Woddrop Street that soon put a stop tae the weans playin' in the street.

Ah'm sure you'll be pleased tae know jasdell that my current paintin' Glasgow Cross Crossover - 1959 contains no' wan but two tram caurs - a standard hex dash and a coronation number 9 en route tae Auchenshuggle.