Painter swaps Glasgow for its twin river city in Russia

An artistic love of the River Clyde has led a Scottish artist to paint another great river, the Don in Russia, as she becomes the foreign artist-in-residence for the city of Rostov-on-Don. Cara McKinnon Crawford, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, is currently embarking on a lengthy and ambitious project to chart the flow of the Clyde in oil paintings, from its source, through Glasgow, to the sea. The nearly 200-painting endeavour, which she hopes will be displayed at a gallery in Glasgow city centre when it is completed, has led the artist to the residency in Glasgow’s twin city in Russia, which is on the banks of a similarly industrial waterway, the Don.