Joseph Watson painted scenes around Dumfries. Here, Kingholm Quay is almost unrecognisable as the major port it was in the nineteenth century. His artwork is a useful historical record of what Dumfries used to look like.

Robert George Kelly was an Irish born painter, who lived in Stranraer and painted scenes of Galloway, before moving to England. This depiction of the village of Sandhead in the Rhins of Galloway, shows it as a thriving small fishing village.

George Wright was a late Victorian-Edwardian landscape artist from Annan. Here he has painted a traditional method of salmon fishing in the Inner Solway, where nets erected between poles would trap fish moving with the tides.

Threave Castle is a major landmark in the Stewarty area of Dumfries and Galloway. Formerly a fortified house, built in the fourteenth century on an island in the River Dee by Archibald the Grim, it is now a picturesque ruin. The surrounding area is a nature reserve.

Edward Atkinson Hornel owned Broughton House and Garden in Kirkcudbright, which is now a National Trust for Scotland property. He was a member of The Glasgow Boys group of artists and held a continuing interest in the art and cultures of Asia. In contrast to the earlier landscapes, the focus of this painting is on a small detail, the flower in the waterlilies.

Adam Bruce Thomson is one of the Edinburgh School group of artists. His vividly coloured landscape contains lots of suggestion of movement, even in the absence of the farm-workers who have created the stooks of wheat. In contrast to the earlier landscapes there is a strong sense of the changing seasons in this painting.

Charles Oppenheimer moved to Kirkcudbright in 1908 and lived there until he died in 1961. He painted places around him, though his natural landscapes often contain some evidence of human presence. In this painting, Oppenheimer shows the building of a dam as part of the Galloway hydro-electric power scheme of the 1930s. The title, 'Art in Concrete' suggests his awe and fascination with these structures, elevating them to the level of art in his eyes.

This landscape is unusual in Oppenheimer's works for being totally natural. But it demonstrates his skill and sensitivity as a painter with its delicate depiction of light and water. The inspiration for this painting probably came from Oppenheimer's hobby of fishing.

Archie Sutter Watt was a prominent local painter in the twentieth century, as well as a teacher at schools throughout the region. Watt was prominently involved in the local art community as a founder and organiser of societies, as well as being popularly exhibited. His choice of landscapes and colour is deeply evocative of Dumfries and Galloway.

Teresa Durà Branson moved to Kirkcudbright in 1970 and lived there until she died in 2016. In this landscape painting she captures the lively, fast moving light of the Stewartry coast, without showing the coastline. Kirkcudbright is a popular place for artists to live, and is known as 'the artists town'. Because of this it has been painted many times, often showing the village at the water's edge or the river.

John Threlfall is a contemporary painter of nature, landscapes and birds. The subject matter and title of Light Flight is reminiscent of the works of Sir Peter Scott, a conservationist known for his work with wild geese, culminating in the founding of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, who manage a reserve at Caerlaverock. Threlfall, however, is a more skilled painter than Scott. Threlfall captures the changing weather of the Solway exceptionally in this evocative painting.

In this painting by Alexander Rhynd Robb, we see the vividness of the Nithsdale landscape on a sunny winter's day. The vibrant birch trees on the hill contrast with the rigid conifer tree on the flat farmed landscape. It shows a more modern style of landscape painting, perhaps influenced by Adam Bruce Thomson's Harvesting in Galloway in its use of bold colours.

Rosemary Gascoyne moved to Galloway in 1989, after having studied for a degree in fine art in her 40s. Her work demonstrates a bold use of colour and light and is unconstrained by traditional attempts at representation.

Robert Burns was one of Dumfries's most well-known and famous citizens. Though born in Ayrshire, he wrote many of his best-loved and most famous works in his time at Ellisland farm, just outside Dumfries, and at two properties within the town. This portrait is different from the widely known depiction, showing more of the body, and with a perhaps impatient expression on his face.

Jean Armour was Robert Burns's wife, a popular and well-known figure in the community. After Burns's early death in 1796, Armour lived until 1834. Together they had 9 children, 3 of whom survived into adulthood.

Robert Burns wrote 'Tam o' Shanter' while living at Ellisland Farm, a few miles northwest of Dumfries. Its popularity as a story has seen it turned into all sorts of decorative objects.

Thomas Carlyle was an influential thinker in the nineteenth century. He was born in Ecclefechan, in the east of the region and became a mathematician, a philospher, an essayist and a historian. The house he was born in is now a National Trust for Scotland property.

This portrait is of Jessie Marion King, one of The Glasgow Girls group of artists. She moved to Kirkcudbright in 1915 and stayed there until she died in 1949. As well as producing her own art, she taught artists in Kirkcudbright and was an integral part of the town's developing reputation as a place for artists to live, work and study in.

Cecile Walton lived in Kirkcudbright at the end of her life, although she visited the town throughout her life. It was in Kirkcudbright she studied under Jessie Marion King. Walton was the daughter of E. A. Walton, one of the 'Glasgow Boys', though she became part of the 'Edinburgh School'.

Ethel Susan Graham Bristowe lived in Balmaclellan. Castle Douglas art gallery was her bequest to Galloway. Bristowe's paintings were predominantly still lifes, mostly with flowers and figurines. This, a portrait of a woman smelling a cutting of honeysuckle, is an unusual example of her art.

Vera Alabaster spent the last 14 years of her life in Kirkcudbright, where she produced portraits, still life and landscape paintings. Her portraiture has an exceptional use of light and she is particularly talented at capturing expressions.