Artist’s plea to track down family he painted sledging

Charles Randak captured the family scene on a snowy day in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park in February.

Hamish Morrison

11th Nov 2021

An artist wants to track down a family he painted sledging in a Glasgow park to give them the artwork for Christmas.

Charles Randak, from Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire, captured the family scene on a snowy day inKelvingrove Park in February earlier this year.

He finished the painting just a few weeks ago and thinks a framed and signed print would make a nice festive present for his oblivious subjects.

Mr Randak said: “I thought it would be nice if the wee girl, who is the lead girl, if her parents knew she was in the picture.

“I suspect that’s her sister on the right, they have the same sledges and the same boots.

“I remember them all talking.

“It would be nice if someone said ‘that’s so-and-so’ and then the kids would have a thing to hang on the wall.

Charles Randak hopes to track down the family featured in his painting. SWNS via SWNS

“I am assuming she is from the West End of Glasgow, though she might not be.

“It would seem sad they might not ever know that they were in a painting, it would be a wee moment in time for her, completely unaware that she is being painted.

“It was inspired by the Georges Seurat painting ‘Sunday in the Park with George’.

“It’s all about the people interacting in the setting, I saw the composition and thought it would make a nice painting.”

Mr Randak, who works as a designer and counts Loganair’s logo as his most enduring work, exhibits and sells his work at the Stagg Gallery in the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.