Masterpieces of the future at charity sale

ART lovers can snap up work from the next Jack Vettriano or John Lowrie Morrison at a charity art auction in Edinburgh this month.

City millionaire and philanthropist Sir Tom Farmer is set to attend the event, to be held at the Scotsman Hotel on North Bridge on March 15.

It has been organised by S5 Erskine Stewart’s Melville pupils, Matthew Lochery, Isha Miller and Maria Campbell, in aid of charity Children 1st.

Up to 20 pieces will go under the hammer, including work by Royal Scottish Academy member Barbara Rae, photographer Trevor Yerbury, Edinburgh-based portraitist Joyce Gunn Cairns, Eleanor Read, Jenny Reynolds and contemporary artist Alan Kilpatrick.

More details are available at www.charityartauction.blogspot.com.