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’TRAILING THE NORTH WIND' MAY 2009 'Trailing the North Wind' Solo Exhibition at Glasgow Art Club, 6th - 29th May |
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Blair Thomson's solo show titled 'Trailing the North Wind', will feature large ink paintings as well as oils, artist's sketchbooks and smaller Sumi ink pieces made outdoors in Japan around Matsumoto-jo Castle. The focus will be on bold pieces and fresh mark-making with a sense of roaming West and East charting waymarks, manmade and natural, from Tokyo to Arrochar. Various objects are tackled including a dynamic old sakura tree, telecom towers and Finnieston crane... Trying to capture the inconsequential momentous moment! For more info please click background information. Image on the right: |
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The show was featured in The Sunday Times by Anna Burnside on 26th April, also look out for it in i-on magazine Glasgow (May) and also the Mackintosh 100 events booklet so please look out for a copy! Click here for Exhibition Essay by Alan Wilson. The opening had a great buzz of enthusiastic art appreciators, with an engaging speech by Gordon Macpherson (R.G.I. President) about his visit to Blair's studio. Gordon was kindly introduced by the new G.A.C. president Raymond Williamson.
About this show The large ink works were born out of a recent trip to Japan over winter 2008/09 where I was lucky enough to study Sho calligraphy under eighty-nine year old Takeshi Wakabayashi in Toyama City. Various sketchbook pieces were made whilst traveling around the centre and north of the country. With the inspiration of Japanese Haiku poetry, culture and philosophy grounded in me, these images were transformed in Glasgow on large sheets of Washi paper (painted flat with large Fude brushes and Sumi ink) and mounted onto canvas using some traditional techniques (including lots of wheat glue!). These can be rolled for storage or transport and are stamped Blair and Kitakaze or North Wind. Many thanks to painter Sam Cartman for his long hours of effort helping mount these works, and to him and artist Patricia Cain for helping hang the show. I hope you enjoy it. Blair Thomson, May 2009
Exhibition sponsored by Argyle Consulting Limited |
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During May please also look out for my piece 'Clevedon Pier Rhythms' at Paisley Art Institute (own page in catalogue) and 'Tokyo Mast' at the RSA Spring Open in Edinburgh. |
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Please feel free to
at  , 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. |
| Please open this link to view Alan Wilson's essay on my ink work. |
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