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Glasgow 850 artworks, online gallery of images:

A framed busy picture of people and wares at the Barras market. Outlined characterful image with some shading and details but not all filled in with colour. — Glasgow by Carole Lee

A painting of the outside of the Victoria Bar. The watercolour brushstrokes of the street and the red, black and gold of the pub compliment the flowers in the hanging baskets. — Victoria Bar by John McNaught

A bright drawing in reds, oranges and blues. A large and a baby elephant in the background of the drawing, with two characterful hens striding forth in the foreground, with graphic detailed feathers. One with a plaid scarf and one with a cone on its head. Round the edge an orange red band frames the image. — Untitled by Lucy Harrisson Millar

Detailed painted drawing of the inside of a café, with bright illustrative details including an waitress at a till in front of jars of coloured sweets and two women sitting with a menu and a can of iron bru. — University Cafe by Laura Wade

Two figures sit at a table in a window of a tenement in this picture. Drawn in delicate ink pen and painted in gouache and ink, There are many details, one person in a harlequin jumper mends or sews a tartan waistcoat. Another figure with black dreadlocks sits at a laptop. There are paper chains in the window and you can see the neighbouring tenements against the blue and yellow of the sun setting or rising. — Leo Robinson and Esmée Balcewicz on Dixon Avenue by Laura Wade

In this bright playful illustration of children and cats on the squiggly bridge over the Clyde. Some of the children have bikes, one cat is on a unicycle. — Squiggly Bridge by Ruth Mutch

This painting is mainly using the colours of black and white, with accents of pink metal work, greenery in the water, and touches of blue and yellow reflecting from the sky, in this underbridge scene. — Under the Bridge by Jenny Hunter

This painting is mainly using the colours of black and white, with accents of pink metal work, greenery in the water, and touches of blue and yellow reflecting from the sky, in this underbridge scene. — Tradeston by Jenny Hunter

A complex indoor architecture filled with objects and glass windows and vitrines. Almost every colour is used to show the light reflecting across every surface. — The Burrell by Sian Mather

A painting of The Laurieston pub is depicted in washy watercolours and ink. The view is from front with the street railings with the angle down the side seen on the left hand side. — The Laurieston by John McNaught

On a plain white background a delicate pencil drawing of the old theatre building is multicoloured in patches of different coloured chalks. — The Pavillion by Hannah Murray

On a blue background with a grey roof, with thick painted brush strokes are images, portraits and rooms layered over the top with pencil and crayon portraits giving a busy colourful expression of a tenement building. — Tenement by John Duncan

Black and white film still showing two figures wearing fabric sculptural costumes. One with black dots of make up on their face and one with pearl beads, both have their eyes closed — Film still, Wah Yen by Wei Zhang

A drypoint blue ink print. The texture of broken curved and angled clouds contrasts with similar patterns in the water below, which are flecked through with more lines. In between there are scratchy crosshatched buildings and a sleek triangle bridge. — The River Clyde by Michael Draper

The backs of peoples heads in the foreground look on as a graphic depiction of a tower block demolition takes places. The image is in black and white and greys and below are the handwritten words "farewell to the wyndford towers" — Farewell to the Wyndford Towers by Ailsing Smith

Detailed drawing with lots of fine details and texture. Two drawings one on top of the other, both with text underneath. The first one of a subway station entrance, figures inside, light streaming out onto the pavement. The text reads, "Sam swore there were fish in the murky water underneath the rails at St George's Cross Station, but I've never seen them. I am, however, quite taken by this myth", The second drawing is a close up detailed picture of the underground rails with the water flowing, the brickwork detail, the electrical lines, all rendered in shades of textured grey. The text below reads, "Wishing hard to verify it's empirical truth, I sustained an unbroken gaze into the stream for the five minutes it took for my train to arrive. Signs of life were conjured by my imagination - but I wouldn't call them fish". — Gone Fishing by Aisling Smith

A black and white photograph of a curved and panelled architectural building with a small person walking in the shot at the bottom showing the massive scale. — The SEC by Dylan Lombard

A painterly depiction of a cyclist riding his bike in a black, red and yellow strip down a street with trees and buildings. The style is painterly and gestural, but done as a digital illustration so you can see some airbrush like effects. The artwork is here shown in a white frame. — Ugandan Cyclist, Commonwealth by MT Clements

Thick tape like lines of bright blue, orange and burgundy are overlaid in a pattern of angled lines reminiscent of a tenement house. The background is layered and dark blue. The paint is glossy and thickly applied. — Tenement Grid II by Al Strachan

Thick tape like lines of bright yellow, orange and burgundy are overlaid in a pattern of lines reminiscent of a tenement house. The background is layered and dark blue. The paint is glossy and thickly applied. — Tenement Grid I by Al Strachan

A photograph of an installation of black and white printed fabric which is hung by one corner in a series across the wall. — Typographic Journey Urban Architecture collaboration by BA Design Practice Hons Degree

printed fabric, 115x100cm — Botanic Gardens by Nadav Dar

A light lino print of a section of a tenement. With wavy roof lines, chimney stack, drainpipe and upper windows in view. — Tenement I by Josey-Ann Green

A line drawing of the chimney stack in the centre and roofs of the adjoining houses. Black with some atmospheric smudging on white card. — Tenement II by Josey-Ann Green

A detailed pencil drawing. Buses in the background and many children and an adult standing in front of a wall. With one child driving a go cart, with another inside and one at the back pushing it. Lots of detailed shading. — Their Own Wee Bus by Brian Skillen

Painted in a graphic outlined style with flat layered brushstrokes a figure with a cone on his head sits on a horse, on a plinth, outside an old columned museum building. — The Duke by David Bradley

White clouds on a grey sky drip black outlined blue raindrops on the trongate tower. A figure waits at a red traffic light while another figure in a green hoodie scowls, taking shelter in an archway. — Summer in Glasgow by Jack Woodlock

A complex and highly detailed artwork. There is a brightly coloured and patterned form in the centre with many animalistic heads, eyes and mouths. The background is mainly grey with black symbols and shapes and arrows. The artwork is shown here in a white frame. — Ziggy's Quantum Uncertainty (The Conundrums of a Fellow Wave Function Traverser) by Greg Bromley

Very detailed piece a central figure made up of many eyes, teeth, horns, merging animals with layered textures and colours. The background is a silvery grey with black arrows and shapes around spikey shapes and another shape with eyes and a mouth swirling around. — Stuttering Superposition (The Floating Head Observer and the Trickster's Lament) by Greg Bromley

A blue image. A figure, with two stick like arms on each side raised in the air, looks contemplative in this emotive print. — Peter Capaldi by Gerard Gallagher

Smiling felt tip people drawn and coloured in felt tip markers on a purple background. — Still Game by Peter Johnston

Against a darkening sky of blue overlaid with a greeny grey are two futuristic buildings lit from the inside, one blue and green the other pink. This light is reflected in streaks on a dabbed blue river beneath. — The Clyde by Christopher Newman

On a white background are painted coloured shapes - a tower in pink, a semi circle in green and grey, and other shapes. These shapes have been embroidered onto with lines, crosses and squares in coloured wool. — Science Centre by Judith Abubakar

Distant grey mountains and in the foreground black outlined streets and buildings coloured with bright lights of yellow, purple, blue and orange create this cityscape. — River Clyde by Rhona Millar

A painting of The Regents Bar pub is depicted in washy watercolours and ink. The view is from front with the street railings with a figure standing in the doorway. — Regent Bar by John McNaught

This sculpture is a traffic cone of orange and reflective material. The cone shape has been cut into circular strips and balanced on top of each other from small at the top to large at the bottom in a higgle-di-piggily way that looks like they are balancing — Pile of Traffic Cone by Yahel Halevi

copper and black ink is used in this drawing featuring a cat and a house drawn in outlines, with flowers, and shapes and lines covering the rest of the space on the page. — Rosie the Cat on Parnie Street by Marie Cocozza

Detailed pen drawing of a large glasshouse coming out towards the viewer. Painted with a greeny blue glass. In the foreground shading and lines make up a tiered landscape. In the background brick walls, a small cobalt blue train travels along a arched railway bridge and something with large jaws lingers in all the arches. A ribbon of white and a circle of the moon are left white while the rest of the sky is densely shaded. — People's Palace II by Chris Anderson

Pen drawing with detailed overlapping lines making up the textures of the pavement and architecture of a grand Gallery building, with blue washed windows and a patch of blue sky being seen outside the dense city square. — Gallery of Modern Art by Chris Anderson

On a green paper background a print of a building made up of energetic white lines with the brown scratchy lines of a fence along the bottom of the image. — People's Palace by Fiona Stack

A vibrant multicoloured oil pastel picture on a black background. — People's Palace by Duncan Gray

Ink lined drawing made up of lots of smaller back outline lines and shapes which are painted with lots of colourful watercolour making a vibrant complex image — Billy Connolly by Cameron Morgan

In this black and white drawing many people fill the page, larger in the foreground and smaller in the background where there are some Glasgow landmarks, buildings and bridges — People Make Glasgow by AJ Duncan

A photograph of an art object. Square glass tiles are connected together with while plaster in 4 rows of 5 making a square. — Pavement Skylight by Alisha Black

A bus drawn front on to the viewer, The top deck is yellow and the bottom is green. — Old Corporation LA 927 by Julie Boyce

A painting in white, black and a sandy peach colour. In the centre a scene of a pyramid and sphinx framed by floral motifs and circular paintings of other landscapes labelled "cape town" and "Cairo". At the bottom in large text is painted "North British Locomotive Co. Ltd. Glasgow" — North British Locomotive Co Ltd by Margaret McInnes

A sketchy line drawing filled it with shading and details in a rose pink. The scene is of a hallway of a museum, a propeller plane in the centre, animals down below and around the staircase many grand architectural features such as a chandelier. — My Happy Place by Alejandra Tilve

A very detailed watercolour painting of a neoclassical building with triangular apex and lots of columns in a blond sandstone. The foreground is painted with large oversized flowers and leaves all along the lower third of the painting and there are two weeping willows on each side. The sky blends from blue to yellow to pink. — Lost in Langside by Nathalie Aranea Nijk

This picture has a washy effect, a grey building with spires and square windows set against a blue sky. — Museum of Transport by Roddy Woods

A slender character with their arms up to their head stands to one side of the painting, surrounded by squares and patches of ink. You can see the pencil marks and the brush strokes from the ink as its applied in zig zags. — Lulu by Shannon Turnbull

Thickly painted colourful and patterned painting in oranges, blues, and greens with some black outlines. In the centre an orange building with wiggly brown lines, circles in different colours, outline windows of different shapes in black with white centres and beige mark making. This sits on top of a sky blue background with wiggly lines and dots in green and at the bottom of the picture more green, brown and orange sections with dots and lines details. — Kelvingrove Art Gallery by Peter Curlin

On a bright red canvas, edged in darker brush stokes, a very detailed painting of the Glasgow Central clock hangs from the top of the piece. Below the silhouettes of two figures seated in wheelchairs lean towards each other romantically. — Meeting by Mhairi Ferguson

charcoal drawing on a cream textured sheet of paper showing a young Charles Rennie Mackintosh looking to the left — Mackintosh by Yvonne Smyth

A triangular cone shaped sculpture which looks as though its made of multicoloured glass pieces put together like a mosaic — The Play of Light and Colour (Inspired by Glasgow Cathedral) by Lydia Fung

A large square orange cow dominates the page, completely filling it. Vivid hues of orange with small grey hooves and grey horns with yellow tips. On the white background organic shapes lots of them in dark and bright green represent the greenery under foot. — Highland Cow at Pollok Park by James Gibson

In front of a streaky pink and purple sky, on a black wall with grey sponged cloudlike forms gathering at the lower corners, is a horse made up of black lines with golden accents. In the background a white outline of a moon, and to the right a black streetlamp with golden lamps rises from a cloud. — Heavy Horse, M8 by Edward Henry

Square painting with green outlines and grey blue background with green energetic lines painted on top. Grey oval heads and pinky-red rectangular stairs are in lower half of the piece. — Heads in Kelvingrove by Joseph Sharpe

A peachy light floods the sandstone arches in this architectural painting of vaulted ceilings and passage ways with many columns holding up the arches. Browns, oranges and red shadows. The columns have yellow fairy lights wrapped around them. — Graduation Time at Glasgow Uni by Kirsty Macfarlane

A grey happy looking figure sits on a grey horse outside a sand coloured building. The figure has a bright orange cone triangle on his head. — Wellington with a Cone on His Head by Andrew McMillan

A bright painting, with a yellow, orange and pink rectangle in the middle with patterns and details. On a sky blue background green oval leaves with blue and yellow dot details fan out around stick like trunks. — Glasgow Green Park by Ross Agnew

Photograph of a square tile made up of smaller square pieces of coloured glass making up the stripes of the rainbow flag. — Glasgow Pride by Alisha Black

A colourful figure with a slightly fearful expression. The forehead of the face is coloured in dark blue, cheeks light blue and orange around the chin. They stand with one arm pointing up at the chest. The whole picture is coloured in dense pencil crayon, with a background in sections of grey, light green and dark green making a colourful piece. — Grado by Michael McMullen

A evocative black and white watercolour and ink drawing of a dookit standing taller than the wall it backs onto. The different planks of wood and timber that have been screwed on are all crosshatched and shaded in different ways showing the texture and the age of the materials. — Glasgow Dookit - Southside by Taylor Stewart

A black outlined ink drawing, a bright green structure is in the centre of the picture. The texture of the grass, corrugated tin and brickwork are drawn in inky black lines. Black lines of wire cross a pink washed background. — Glasgow Dookit - Green Scotstoun by Taylor Stewart

A photograph of a picture in a black wooden frame. Along the middle of the printed canvas are six boxes containing a black and white image of hands doing sign language and in the top right hand corner a letter of the alphabet. Taken together the sign language and the letters spell out "Glasgow" — Glasgow Deaf by Rainbow Creative

A stylised silhouette of Glasgow architecture at night showing the riverside museum and the Finneston crane amongst other landmarks laid out in a line outlined in black and filled in with yellow or grey. The sky is coloured a sunset pink and the bottom part of the image is painted silver with "Glasgow" written in gothic script. — Glasgow by Richardson

A black and white image. "God help the immigration officer who enters here" in white capital letters on a black background and the outlines of an immigration van surrounded by people in uniform. — From Mary Barbours to Kenmure Street- Hands Off Our Neighbours by Bel Pye

A cloudy day showing a bridge over the river in dusky lilac, blue and ochre with pops of colour in the riverside museum opposite. Painted with thick textured brush strokes in acrylic paint. Painting is shown here framed. — Glasgow Bridge II by Martin Sloss

A bright illustrative image all in the colour palette of pinks and reds and browns. The picture is full of details, from architecture, to figures interacting with each other and a large crowd of figures on the left hand side going from small to large on a protest march holding various placards with slogans such as "trans rights are human rights" and "equal pay for equal work". — Feminist Glasgow by Séania Strain

An ink drawing of the corner of a building with two waiters of servers outside. The ink has been used as a watercolour paint to add shading to the figures and building as well as some other details being added in blue and yellow ink — Restaurant 514 by John McNaught

This detailed oil painting depicts a view of the finneston crane with a bridge, the river and details of planters, poles and a police van in the foreground. — Clyde Port by Allan Oattes

Against a light blue sky, a detailed and delicately shaded burnt orange coloured crane is depicted, close up, filling the page. — Crane by James Smith

A photograph of a ceramic piece. It is a small bust of a man with yellow glazed hair, and red facial features including a modelled nose, ears and a large red moustache which stretches from ear to ear. The body is black with roughly modelled next shoulders and arms and there is a large blue bow on the front of his jacket. — Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Judith Abubakar

Trongate tower and the surrounding buildings and roads are depicted in this detailed clear drawing with the brickwork detail of the tower picked out and the colours of pale blue sky, light grey roads, and yellow sandstone with shading and other details. — Tolbooth by Al Hughes

A smooth watercolour with sketchy inky black lines showing a building with a turret, and a statue on a plinth — Brechan by John McNaught

A photograph of a round blue ceramic circle, the details of a face and text have been incised into the surface of the clay and glazes used to colour the skin, hair, eyebrows and collar of the portrait. — Blue Plaque for Rikki Fulton by Billy Harper

six photographs showing different angles of a metal sculpture. A brass metal coloured cylinder with rectangles cut out and pulled away, threaded with thin wires to the centre. — Glasgow makes Clyde, Clyde makes Glasgow by Laura Lovin

Energetic and colourful painting. The barrowlands sign at a jaunty angle with the lights of the stars extending out in light yellow brushstrokes. Above is the bright blue of the sky and below is the orange of the building and purple windows. — Barrowland by Jonathan McKinstry

On a white background, circles, shapes, text and patches of shading overlap in blues, red, yellow, green, orange and pencil — Buchanan Bus Station by Kevin Laporte

An almost monochromatic painting of a lane of buildings, with fairy lights string between them. The buildings are white and black and light reflects on the cobbles, an orange traffic cone in the foreground adds an unusual hint of colour to the painting — Ashton Lane by Lynne Woods

Very light watercolour painting, you can just make out the pillars and pointed roof of a building above the washy green of the trees — Under the lilac sky by Kirsty Reid

light watercolour scene with trees and a greyish path round a pond — Pond, a grey sky by Kirsty Reid

At the top of the picture is the sweep of a bridge, with light green, greys and red reflecting the river and plants beneath in light watercolour tones — Sunlit walk, follow the river by Kirsty Reid

Colourful close up painting of an animal in beige, reddish brown and blacks on a background of bright blue sky and green grass with dots, lines and circles. — A Haggis in Glasgow Green by Steven Reilly

This close up square painting shows part of a church, outlined in broad black brushstrokes with brown, white and pink brick detailing and a honey coloured spire and cross. — Church in Govan by John Cocozza

painterly close up picture of bells bar pub in red and beige with a traffic cone on the grey pavement outside — Bells Bar by John McNaught

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