Glasgow Tenement by David Warrillow (b. 1956) captures a street corner in Glasgow, depicting the red store or office on the street level, a sign advertisement on the wall above, and views of the windows in the layers of the flats above. Warrillow captures with rectangular strokes of grey and green colour of the blocks making up the structure of the walls, with thin brush strokes of light blue and black outlining the windows. The overall grey tones of colour and the dryer brush technique create a softness in the gloomy scene. 

Warrillow was known to have created multiple paintings of different tenement perspectives across Glasgow during the 1980s, predominantly focusing on the Mary Hill area. 

David Ross Warrillow, born 1956

Born in Glasgow, Warrillow studied from 1975 to 1979 at Glasgow School of Art, where David Donaldson and Danny Ferguson were early influences. He taught art in schools in Glasgow until 1989, where he gave up teaching to concentrate full-time on painting.
Warrillow paints simple forms in an intense realist style in the manner of the Spanish still-life masters Juan Sánchez Cotán and Luis Eugenio Meléndez. He aims for perfection of form and light, achieving an almost three-dimensional effect. He is very interested in the techniques of oil painting, and chose this form of realism because he felt it would be a challenge.