drawing & painting
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High Bridges – Walking Drawing Tokyo West from Naka Meguro
along suspended riverblocked by oncoming vertical flyovernanamemeeting high polished walls isolating the residential worldfloating gardens flowing into alloy platforms intertwined shafts, containers hummingneutral perimetersemerging and reshaping the ground and drawing out energy lines overlapping populous spacessuffusedabove a tandem rotor flying heavilyleaden quick descent and dark blue chill moving onundulating and avoiding trafficsoon underground in quiet…
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Exhibiting Urban Dynamics at Factory Hanbunko, Takaoka
This month I exhibited at the excellent Factory Hanbunko gallery in Takaoka near the Nihon Kai (Japan Sea). Huge thanks to the staff and especially Ayaka-san for helping me put this together and promoting the new artworks. Takaoka is a fascinating old city and this Kura (former traditional warehouse) space in the gallery is a…
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Developing new pieces into washes and fields of colour
I’ve been continuing recent works with water based materials and brushes as well as drawing tools, the new pieces are moving forward I think and I will probably take these ones with the suffused and roaming atmospheres into a more sustained series…
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Drawing, poetry and camping at mountain altitude
MOUNTAIN SPECTRE WHITE WING BLACK CAIRN Loafing around up on the Cairngorm plateau Has many advantages – You can loiter in peace with the deep blue sky, Surrounded by tiny dots of stone after stone Fading into the ten directions, Eat some homemade granola and bathe in fresh mountain streams – After contemplating two deer…
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Recent drawing and painting outdoors: Tectonics fragmented
shards of light, seeping darks, vectorslooking down; looking in ten directions
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West Coast to East Coast: Overlapping Lines and Spliced Surfaces
Getting into the Spring/Scottish Summer season have been making more work outdoors and doing some long journeys too… the light is super just now, bright from five or six in the morning towards ten at night. Getting into the habit of cycling more (these images grew out of coast to coast movement) with materials attached…