Archibald Sandeman RSW.
1887 - 1941

Archibold Sandeman was a watercolour Landscape painter that exhibited from 1930 - 1940.
He was born in 1887 and died in 1941. He has a wife called Muriel Boyd Sandeman.
They bought a house in Bearsden, in 1918 that stayed in the family until 1992.
Lochend Farmhouse is one of the oldest houses in Bearsden. Archibald trained in
chemistry and worked with the family firm, Sandeman Brother Ltd, in Bilsland Drive,
Maryhil. The firm specialised in oils, varnished, soaps and lubricants. Because of
his wife's commitment to her art, he taught himself to paint in watercolour, and
during the 1930's he exhibited at the Bennett Gallery in Glasgow and with the Walker
Gallery in London. The couple travelled annually to Skye to paint. Their summer holidays
with their two children Margot and Sandy, were taken in Corrie on the east coast of
the island. It is said that in his 2 year gap in Arran, Skye and the Western Highlands that
he made an interesting development in his art, mainly in the direction of greater persuasiveness
in the handling of the watercolour medium, and also greater power in the rendering of the
beauties of highland scenery. He does not appear to re-arrange his subjects, but rather
to find the point of view from which they come not only pictorially but characteristically.
His art is narrative rather than dramatic, and he uses watercolours with freshness and delicacy
which bring out the special qualities of the medium. He had an early death in 1941.