photography
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Summer walks in the leafy green rain
Although it has been pretty wet and cool in Scotland recently, I’ve been walking in and out of Glasgow. The colours are often intensified as the light becomes subdued under the heavy skies, so the atmospheres are literally quite close, humid, with dripping greens emerging out of dark shadows… Was out one day around my
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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
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Into the Atlantic Ocean to Oban and Colonsay on the Waverley
At the end of last week I sailed on the famous Waverley for the first time, the last ocean going paddle steamer, with my pal Bruce Peter, writer and maritime expert, who showed me the ropes and the etiquette – namely enjoy! Was a great trip, starting early and slowly with a few cuppas as
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Cycling and sketching outdoors – heading East
Taking advantage of the fabulous weather last week, I got on my bike with pannier bag loaded with drawing and camera equiptment, plus the essential flask of ice cold coffee, and headed through the parks, along the rivers and through the industrial areas of the East End of the Glasgow. I didn’t quite know what
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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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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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Bruce Peter’s Grand Ferry Tour of Japan
My good friend Bruce Peter (academic at Glasgow School of Art and design and maritime journalist) is recently returned to Scotland after three weeks of travel in Japan, sailing on 31 ferries and other ships (even the typhoon couldn’t dent his packed schedule), and taking some cracking photos in the process. He has started to
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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,