Glasgow-born artist, Frank To is going from strength to strength since graduating from Dundee art school.  Four of To’s paintings will be featured in the highly anticipated show “Art and the Word” at the Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, opening on 19th September. To will be exhibiting alongside several established Scottish artists who have created work inspired by literature.

At 26, To is already winning an enviable reputation as a contemporary figurative painter, having already established a loyal following, including a number of high profile buyers. Such buyer is Star Trek legend, Patrick Stewart. Additionally, To’s work has been featured in the STV detective drama, Rebus

A Masters graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, To has also trained in Yorkshire. In recent years he has exhibited alongside some of the greats of the international art scene such as Peter Howson, Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. His work has also featured in several galleries nationwide including the Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells (2005), Beaux Art Gallery, Bath (2006), Albemarle Gallery, London (2007) and Queens Gallery, Dundee (2008). He is now represented in New York by Witmer Fine Art who has in the past sold works by Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and and Jean- Michel Basquiat

To draws inspiration from the Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo. It was said Michelangelo could visualise the human form within a block of marble. To, similarly, teases out figures from initially abstract images.

To says, “This exhibition will provide me the opportunity to show the public how I am inspired by literal text. In a way, I’m showing a more personal side with the new work.”

“Art and the Word” Exhibition opens Friday 19th September 2008 at the Kilmorack Gallery by Beauly, Inverness-shire. IV4 7AL