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Selecting artworks for Gallery 80, Tokyo
I’m getting everything together just now for the show in Omotesando Hills, Gallery 80 ( 12-18th November). There is going to be a series of 24 small paintings and several drawings, rubbings and printmaking, and will be my first show to feature photography with a series of ten works plus larger scale pieces, plus I’m
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Developing and connecting drawings, paintings, contours…
The drawings have been coming together more lately. Lines, textures, overlapping transparent hues… I’m continuing to search for links between different elements and techniques – working directly from looking at structures and places, making rubbings, markmaking blind or semi-blind – there are a lot of crossovers in the work just now which gets my brain
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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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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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Curves and lines on crumbling concrete and rusting metal
I began the day with some cycling and walking, and after being silently passed by a long old fashioned canal boat skippered by a man or a collie ( couldn’t quite tell which) I got to a thinking at the spot for a working. Then into combining and using the various materials with the sketchy
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Sketches for outdoor installation/ sculpture
These were initial line drawing sketches and ideas for continuing this year’s series of ever expanding outdoor works, which seem to have a momentum of their own! I don’t always pre plan works this much, but here I was working through the sketchy vision gradually to try and come up with a visual starting point
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Outdoor Installation Artwork (Abernethy Part 2)
Whilst at Abernethy in the Cairngorms area I made some land art work with a combination of metal, card and also found materials which I salvaged near the river bed. It was really enjoyable and a challenge working in this forested contained environment (midge infested, still itchy thinking about it!), moving quickly to combine the
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New piece for Roger Billcliffe Gallery
The Glasgow based Roger Billcliffe Gallery asked me for some work for their ’20:20 vision’ (Summer Exhibition 2012 from 16th june through july) and I popped round from the studio to hand in this small acrylic and Japanese sumi ink piece the other day. Titled ‘Fragmented’ I was looking at the dynamics and light through
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Abernethy Art Trip 2012 – Part 1
‘Twas an excellent trip up north in the Cairngorms and Aviemore area again this year with the Hamilton College Art Department – very energising, artistically productive and lots of laughs too (mostly at each other, and there was some lazy gentry to paint for too, as well as a sudden escape off Cairn Gorm mountain