The Harry and Margery Boswell Art Collection: Artworks
- John Bellany, Woman of the North Sea.
- Elizabeth Blackadder, Untitled.
- John Byrne, Juggling Harlequin.Steven Campbell, Portrait of Tom Normand.
- Calum Colvin, Mute Swan.
- Ken Currie, Age of Uncertainty.
- Ken Currie, Reprisal.
- Alan Davie, Zurich Improvisations XII.
- Paul Furneaux, Black Madonna.
- John Houston, Untitled.
- Ian Howard, Drago.
- Callum Innes, XI
- Elspeth Lamb, The Gift.
- Patricia Macdonald, Braided river and ancient pines, Glen Feshie, Cairngorms.
- Patricia Macdonald, Lochan Uaine (The Green Lochan) below the Angel's Peak of Carn an t-Sabhail, Cairngorms.
- Will Maclean, Bird Altar.
- Will Maclean, The Tanera Suite.
- William McCance, Machine Moloch or Machine Gods.
- William McCance, The Engineer, His Wife and Family.
- William McCance, Tree Trunk Composition.
- June Redfern, Early Morning Mist.
- Elaine Shemilt, Image in a Bell Jar.
- Alison Watt, Untitled.
- Adrian Wiszniewski, For Max.
Paul Furneaux (born 1962)
Black Madonna, 1994
Screenprint
Paul Furneaux was born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire. He studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1982 to 1987. He later studied Japanese woodblock printing at Tama Art University, Tokyo from 1998 to 2000. He has travelled widely and exhibited internationally.
In 1994, Furneaux received a British Council award to travel and exhibit in Mexico. He visited Mexico for three consecutive years and exhibited in the Anglo-Mexican Institute in Mexico City. The Black Madonna relates to this period and shows the rich and vibrant colours of Mexico.
The artist created a woodcut of the Black Madonna and later developed it into a screenprint.
Images of the Madonna with a black skin are seen throughout the world and are thought to originate in Africa. In France there are many examples, some of which may date from the Crusades. One theory is that the Knights Templars brought the black Madonna to Europe.
It is understood that the white skinned Madonna came into common use during the Middle Ages when the Marian cult, who adored Mary, mother of Jesus, was recognised by the Catholic Church. The first centre of the Marian cult in Britain was at Glastonbury, Somerset.
In some parts of the world the black Madonna is linked to Isis, an Ancient Egyptian goddess.
