The Scottish Colourists was published to accompany the exhibition at the Portland Gallery in 2002. The exhibition showed the works of Cadell, Ferguson, Hunter and Peploe. All four artists knew each other and at different times two of them might paint together. Peploe and Fergusson were particularly close collaborators in France before the First World War; Cadell and Peploe painted together nearly every Summer during the 1920s in Iona, and shared props for still lifes when painting in their Edinburgh studios. However, there was no conscious effort at establishing a 'school' or 'movement'. The term Scottish Colorists was probably first used in 1915 and highlights a change in style that had taken place in Scottish paining in the previous twenty years. Gone were the rather sombre and low-keyed works of the Victorian era - these had given way to French-inspired plein air paintings of the Glasgow School. In turn these were now giving way to the richly coloured Fauve style paintings of Cade