Website Updated March/2011

The artist has been busy in his usual fashion juggling his own works exhibited within the gallery alongside hosting and promoting the works of fellow artists in a variety of media. View the diary section this will be updated regularly informing all of the visiting artists, exhibitions and dates.

BUY PRINTS- Gordon is now offering prints from his original works from £45, art cards from his works £5.

Gordon Cockburns Aushwitz collection is creating a great deal of interest in the media.

This initially was via the local press then nationally. The commemorative exhibition, in honour of Mr Ernest Levy OBE will again tour early in 2011. Dates and venues will be posted in the diary section. Documentary film-maker Alan Pinder is exploring the possibility of recreating the artist's initial visit to Auschwitz, and the years following, whereby he became consumed with a need to transfer onto canvas the horrific images flooding his mind. This collection is not for sale. It is hoped by the Artist that the continued exposure of these works will in some way continue the life long work of Mr Levy, who tirelessly attempted to raise awareness of the horrors of the holocaust and promote the virtues of a humanitarian society across the various creeds and cultures.

MINING SERIES PRESS RELEASE

Gordon, who has a gallery in Maybole, Ayrshire, hails from a proud mining ancestry, with his father and forebears being steeped in all aspects of mining employment. His strong sense of identity, family, community, passions and emotions' are evidenced in his watercolours, ink drawings, pastels and oils. The observer cannot help but be provoked by his imagery.
Gordon’s mining links go back many generations, with his father serving 52 years underground. The community in which he grew up was a proud, closeknit body of people. His studies of the miners themselves, the buildings and environment in which they worked, toiled and played are vividly portrayed. His own father had no wish for his son to follow in his footsteps below ground. To embrace this unique body of persons and capture the environment from which they worked Gordon did spend some time underground, allowing him to bring an informed realism to his work. These studies are truly historical and serve the purpose of reminding those who can remember and those of a younger generation the important social, economic and political role this workforce provided. It is sadly for the most part a bygone era.
The exhibition will run throughout June and July in the Black Diamond Theatre at the National Mining Museum and visitors will have the opportunity to purchase the pieces on show.

DIARY EVENTS 2011

MAY- Spring Exhibition “Gordon’s European Travels” Private View - 22nd – May, This exhibition depicts city night and street scenes form the artists visits to Paris, Venice and Amsterdam. It will be open to the pubic from 23rd of Mayand will run till the 27th of June 2011.

JULY-Photography Exhibition, framed photographs by award winning photographer Gavin Forrest tot be displayed in the gallery from July - 3rd till July - 31st.

AUGUST-Mixed Exhibition of up and coming Scottish artists from 7th to 4th of September. November.Chritsmas exhibition Private view 27th. Open to the public from 28th November till 24th Dec.

TOURING COLLECTIONS-Gordon will be exhibiting his Mining Series at the Midlothian Mining Museum, Midlothian, throughout June and July 2011. Other venues for this exhibition should be secured in the near future. The Auschwitz Collection will be touring Scotland. Dates for specific venues have to be confirmed. 

WELCOME TO THE COCKBURN GALLERY

The Cockburn Gallery is nestled in the ancient Carrick town of Maybole. It has successfully traded for the past 6 years, with artworks being purchased locally and worldwide. The proprietor and resident artist Mr Gordon Cockburn is a true son of Ayrshire; born in Maybole on 5th april 1944. The Cockburn Gallery allows the public access to his past and present works,alongside exhibits of early Scottish Colourists to contemporary art. The gallery provides a vehicle for the yet undiscovered, talented, and predominatley Scottish artists of whom Mr Cockburn enthuses, and is keen to promote. The gallery greatly welcomes the public. Paintings rotate on a two monthly basis with various exhibitions held throughout the calander year.

OPENING HOURS:

Mon/Thurs/Fri/Sat-10am-5pm. Sun 12-4pm. Tues &Wed:Closed. Personal visits outwith these times can be accommodated. Phone Gordon on 01655 884067 or 07909 518599