FEBRUARY 2012
New Blair Thomson's blog 'Sketchbook notes from the drifting spaces' is now online. Talking about art, poetry, zen etc... Please have a look!
- Click here to go to the ART/X/TOYAMA exhibition (Japan May 2010), in which I represented the UK.
- Blair Thomson Solo Exhibition 'Trailing the North Wind' May 2009 page.
- Please open this link to view Alan Wilson's essay on my ink work.
- Here is a link to view the online version of a feature in the 'Uptown Magazine' on my work (type in 88 for the page number at top under the flag sign!).
Artist's Statement
I work with the calligraphic possibilities of painting tied to a vision charting waymarks, dynamic places on the fringe of our outlook, whether coastal pier fragments or isolated telecom towers surrounded by elemental spaces. Sumi ink on Washi paper with Fude brushes or oil on canvas transform these organically, influenced by the clarity and energy of Haiku poetry and Zen. That spirit of journey, as depicted from Basho to Kerouac, I see as essential practice and therefore I begin by walking, thinking and painting outdoors.
Please feel free to me at moc.nosmohtrialb@rialb , you are welcome to visit my studio in Glasgow, right in the middle of the city centre, to see the paintings in the flesh. If you are interested in any of the paintings (or for prices and additional information) please get in touch or visit the galleries where they are being exhibited. I undertake commissions guided by size and style of my work in which you are most interested.