Activities
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Roaming out north of Glasgow by bike, car and walk
Am I on a wild sheep chase again? The roaming adventures drawing, marks and rubbings, hill-walk and the sheep bridge reminded me of Murakami’s early novel ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’.
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Working on new artist film projects
With the Tokyo Omotesando show coming up, I’ve been working with several parallel visual and sound ideas, one strand is the abstract film stuff which has been fun and absorbing and which I hope to exhibit alongside the drawings – after eventually pulling Traces together, which seemed to take months, I have been working on
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City Journeys
I always enjoy walking , looking out for visual urban experience and contrasts, and these are some shots from recent short walks. This derelict slightly monstrous old UK shopping building is quite interesting, with its quirky and ironic old signage ‘Talisman’, ‘Costcutter’, ‘Jade House’… lots of good textures to re-look at too.
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Working on the coast, South Uist
It was great to be out around the quiet lands, lochs and coasts of the Outer Hebrides, there was a lot to get into photography wise and with drawing and markmaking. There was a good spell of weather, with a lull in the usual westerly winds and salty spray, which was ideal for spending time
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Climbing Goat Fell and into the Western hills of Arran
roast chicken and arran brie still sea signpost east route supply structures winding ascent moving quickly fresh burn water not a soul or bird in sight through the rockline getting tired need food goat fell summit sudden wind and jagged torn rock vista food stop lying low following companions wild goat and animal howls no
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More images recollected from Arran trip
Found this Calmac staff member supervising the ferry traffic as we drove aboard at Brodick… I stupidly thought these sheep were actually grazing on the Corrie harbour pier, however we realised they were for tying up boats after the nearby seal drying itself on the rock turned out to be another humorously crafted fake by
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Preparing for some more drawing outdoors
The studio has materials all over the place just now as I have been preparing various bits and pieces for work outside. The weather is pretty good and it is time to push forward more colour linear drawing I think. So the various sketchbooks, newly made bespoke marker pen bag (with an iridescent array of