drawing & painting
-
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…
-
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…
-
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’.
-
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Abernethy Part 3 – Cairngorm mountain at night
The final Abernethy post – a speedy drawing trip up Cairn Gorm munro at midnight, looking out into the deep blue midsummer twilight sky and hill shapes. There were some good stories and laughs on this outing! The music in the driving clip we were listening to was the Billy Bragg & Wilco album “Mermaid…