Media
For all publishing enquiries Lachlan is represented by David Godwin Associates. For all broadcasting enquiries Lachlan is represented by Anita Land Ltd
TV / Radio
2025
The Forest
2025
The Forge
2024
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
2022
Lachlan Goudie in the North
This film accompanies the exhibition 'Painting Paradise' at the Scottish Gallery, 3rd-26th November 2022
2022
Glasgow’s Treasure Palace
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a place artist Lachlan Goudie has loved since he was a boy. He explores Glasgow’s most popular cultural jewel, home to thousands of treasures.
2021
Life Drawing Live
In a groundbreaking TV event broadcast across BBC Two and BBC Four, Joe Lycett hosts the biggest ever live life drawing masterclass from English Heritage’s Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. Experts Daphne Todd and Lachlan Goudie will guide celebrity amateur artists, including comedian Johnny Vegas, singer Kimberly Wyatt and footballer David James, through a series of poses inspired by classical works of art.
2021
Lachlan Goudie's Mull
2021
Alexander Goudie | At Home with the Goudies
2021
Alexander Goudie | Behind the Scenes with Lachlan Goudie
2021
Joan Eardley Podcast | A four-part series about the artist's life and work
2020
The Scottish Colourists | A short film produced with The National Galleries of Scotland
2020
The Celtic Revival | A short film produced with The National Galleries of Scotland
2020
Lachlan Goudie & James Naughtie | The Story of Scottish Art Book Launch
2020
Once Upon a Time, exhibition tour
2020
Inside Museums | BBC Four
2020
Lachlan Goudie in conversation with Kirsty Wark: The Story of Scottish Art
2020
Joan Eardley: Lachlan Goudie in conversation with Guy Peploe
2020
Life Drawing Live 2! | Drawing the Nation Together
2020
Life Drawing Live!
2020
Artist Insight
2020
Great Scots in Isolation
2020
Lachlan Goudie on Modern Masters X
Celebrity Painting Challenge
2018
Mackintosh Glasgow's Neglected Genius
2013
Painting the Holy Land
2016
Lachlan Goudie on The Glasgow Boys
2015
The Story Of Scottish Art
2013
The Art of Witchcraft - Secret Knowledge
2015
The Story of Scottish art
2016
Lachlan Goudie on the Scottish National Gallery
2016
Lachlan Goudie on Arthur Melville
2016
Lachlan Goudie on William McTaggart
2016
Lachlan Goudie on Sir Henry Raeburn and Allan Ramsay
2016
Lachlan Goudie visits Kilmartin Glen - The Story of Scottish Art
2017
John Singer Sargent's Watercolours: An artist's view with Lachlan Goudie
2015
The Story of Scottish Art
2015
The Big Painting Challenge
2014
The Colours of the Clyde
2014
The Secret Knowledge | The Art of Witchcraft
2015
Frieze Five
Press
My dad and the world's largest floating at gallery
I learnt all I know about the art of painting from my father
Artist Lachlan Goudie on how his daughter inspired him to hit the canvas and beat lockdown lethargy
Art Review; Once Upon a Time
5 top British artists on surviving isolation
Lachlan Goudie's daughter inspires Fairytales
Scottish art: more than meets the eye
'We have become snooty about art' – Lachlan Goudie on Scotland's artistic treasures
Lachlan Goudie chooses his top 10 most important Scottish art works
Capturing the landscape in gouache
Growing up Goudie
Ten moments that changed Scottish art
Lachlan Goudie's art history paints a portrait of the nation
How do you squeeze 5,000 years of Scottish art onto a TV show?
Different Strokes
Brushes at dawn
Charting a Clydeside artist
Best of British
Home on the Range
Art of my family
A vision of Andalucia
When his Ship came in
Getting to the Art of Govan
Urban Landscape
Testing the Urban Topography
Painting guide
How to draw crowds
How to draw movement
How to draw perspective
How to draw faces
How to draw flowers
How to draw buildings
Publications
The Secrets of Painting - The Hidden Art of the Masterpiece from Prehistory to Today
How do you paint a masterpiece? In The Secrets of Painting, artist and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie seeks the answer to this question by exploring how twenty of the greatest paintings in human history were created, from a blank surface to the finishing brushstroke.
Beginning at the dawn of civilization with prehistoric cave paintings and ending with the arrival of AI, Goudie unveils the methods and techniques employed by individual artists, bringing their studios to life at the very moment they produced their most celebrated works. Along the way a bigger picture is painted, charting how the evolution of painting materials has changed the course of human creativity.
‘An epic of what humanity is capable of, written at the exact moment when we’ve already assumed machines can, or will, do everything better.’ Simon Schama on The Secrets of Painting
2 April 2026
384pp, 220 illustrations, £38.00 hardback
The Story of Scottish Art
The Story of Scottish Art is a page-turning narrative full of scandals and rebellions, seismic historical events and personal tragedies that inspired or destroyed artists. It is the epic story of how 5000 years of creativity defined a nation – from the earliest Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgow’s fame as a contemporary centre of artistic innovation.
3 September 2020
181 Illustrations | £29.95 hardback
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-story-of-scottish-art/lachlan-goudie/9780500239612
From the Forest to the Forge
Lachlan Goudie presents a powerful and poetic record of Britain’s industrial and natural landscapes in his latest exhibition From the Forest to the Forge. Spanning fifteen years of painting, drawing and printmaking, the exhibition journeys from shipyards and steelworks to ancient woodlands and quiet harbours, revealing the profound connections between industry and the environment.