Barry McGlashan
Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams

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, reality and folklore, McGlashan’s dream-like and otherworldly paintings are as haunting as they are enchanting.

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.