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Drawing at sea on the Waverley
With all the speedy intense movements and rhythms in the ship’s engines to work from, it was good fun sketching loosely with the coloured pens in the sketchbook, using various colour combinations with lots of markers in my pockets to use, some funky and others more atmospheric, and experimenting with compositions as well. Here are
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Humming wind through metal, Cairngorms walking and artwork
curving cloud whisps , crumbling embattlements , thin brown steel straight and low , under the horizon cutting space , hum , fresh breeze clear skies , unreal machines whizzing by crow wing , silver-grey-blue biege mud , biege puddles , shadow-lines no signs , below the sheep-line , slow ascent tubes and pipes ,
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Starting some oil painting for galleries
I’ve been asked by a couple of galleries in Scotland to make new works around one meter square and smaller. I’m planning to use acrylic and mixed media to splash the free forms onto the wee ones. Have also been asked to do something larger along the lines of this piece below, which is based
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Drawing and walking through the cityscape
In the last week I’ve been wondering around the urbanscape continuing and trying to develop my recent series of more free drawings. The Sketchbook Monster is on the loose. The semi forgotten and overlooked, overgrown spots with the combination of the tattered British infrastructure dynamics, weeds, foliage and graffiti provide an excellent outdoor workspace. Quite
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Inspiring artist: Per Kirkeby
When I visited the Danish National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst) in Copenhagen in 2010 I enjoyed seeing the work of the great Danish painter and sculptor Per Kirkeby for the first time. He was in good company, with powerful examples of Baselitz and Munch nearby and powerful examples of Danish expressionism. The building and
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Mountain poetics and sculpturing forms
These exerpts are from my recent trip to Rannoch Moor, working a bit more abstractly with the forms, all practice that I plan to keep developing… and will aim to bring in a different sound element. This is all unedited but may become part of the growing mix of work, including drawings and paintings too,
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Spontaneous tablet drawing
Have been trying out a new tablet rather than mouse and liked this quick fun study, quite simple and ties up with the recent sketchbook marker studies – the marker and computer colours are very similar too.
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Tokyo Omotesando Exhibition, Gallery 80, November 2012
I’ve been busy working away on various art projects for this show, which I’m greatly looking forward to. I am grateful to be invited to make new work for this my first show in the buzzing heart of Japan that is Tokyo. Ometesando and Shibuya area are dynamic parts of town which will be inspiring