drawing & painting
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GSA Alumni Exhibition, Scotland Art Gallery, Glasgow
I’ve been asked to participate in a Glasgow School of Art Alumni show at Scotland Art Gallery in Bath Street (Glasgow City Centre). One of my darker pieces, ‘Box Two’, a three foot square painting, oil on canvas, will be exhibited. The gallery is in the city centre not far from the art school itself,…
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Walking and Drawing, Cairngorms, Scotland, Part 2
snow flakes dancing around in the sunlight finished no more haiku just footstep after footstep
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Walking and Drawing, Cairngorms, Scotland, Part 1
fractured not disassociated edges of chaos Heading up through Glen Tilt we found piles of old logs and bare wood, massive tyre tracked and gouged layers of mud. A brief glimpse of a spotted woodpecker? Gradually heading uphill over mossy ground with open aspects over the winding river below and to the snow covered tops…
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Drawing and painting directions
Recently while working on the cityscape film I’ve also been looking for connections with abstraction. The Journey to Nowhere colours and Tokyo background of concrete, diffused structures of metal and glass move into fairly varied drawing and painting compositions to take forward…
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Drawing and photographing from Edo Gawa River to Yokohama
Transparent green watersBelow red iron and grey blue cracked concrete –Winter sunshine fades quickly across Edogawa. High, looking along the TamagawaHanging over a balconyPhotographing in the cobalt Pacific sky
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Season’s Greetings 2012
Have a great 2013 and all the very best wishes! Image: “Wandering Shibuya” 14 x 12 cm, mixed media on Japanese shikishi board sunlight drifts through autumn rain I try to write a line or two but end up dreaming of Tokyo
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Journey skywards – Tokyo Skytree and Umihotaru Sea Station
grey-white-grey no rust steady waymarker visitor blanketed platforms contained taiyaki and colonel saunders ready for christmas deep blue negatives and folding darknesses drawing looking up straining higher shards segmented triangulated steel glass black flashing yellow next to grey shadows smooth time tarmac slowed right down drifting wheels spinning units glittering objects acceleration past watchtowers over…
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Recent artworks formed in and around Shibuya and Omotesando…
Using calligraphy boards, pens and mixed media I’ve made a series of around thirty new pieces, which I’m planning to continue. The local environment was an excellent area for creativity … Flashing colours, strange kitsch and metal fading into black-blue… Standalone doors to nowhere, windows into new worlds…
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Traces of Time | 時間の足跡
Here are a selection of images of the show plus some Omotesando street views around Gallery 80 in Omotesando Hills building (Aoyama area, Tokyo). It was a very pleasant time of year with the Autumn leaves gathering and crisp clear blue nights…