Eight years ago I visited the Resipole Gallery on a research mission. I was in the early stages of designing and building up the business model for Tatha Gallery and wanted at the time to visit most galleries around Scotland. The bonus with visiting Resipole was not only enjoying the wonderful gallery space but I managed to climb a couple of Munros on route; a win win.
I was delighted to be asked to show my work. The remote location pairs so well with my painting and ideas and as a result I have enjoying exploring the wild to the full.
Everything In-Between • Oil on Board • 48x122cm • 2020
Everything In-Between 30th May - 9th July 2021
READ THE ART NORTH REVIEW OF MY SOLO SHOW HERE
See exhibition here Resipole Gallery or in the On-line catalogue
Works can also be seen on my Paintings 2021 page
To paint the landscape as I do means to interact with and explore the intimate and curiously infinite world. The lichens and mosses at our feet and the heavy skies above, the ground and roof to our world and everything in between. Encountering the effects of weather patterns and atmospheric shifts on rugged coastlines, cliffed ridges, dark waters, soaring stone or windswept beaches are just part of the story. Each place we visit has multiple elements of influence upon us. I see them as moments but they are almost immeasurable. As we walk on the sodden moors into the shadow of the raincloud we step directly into the cloud’s influence. Our eyes adjust and our senses sharpen. If only for a moment we become part of something else. A changing contoured space, peat bogs absorbing light, lochans reflecting. Sunlight spilling over distant mountain ridges, earthy aromas at your feet as you tread through the undergrowth. The shadow of the cloud not only defines the undulating fabric of the land but also the mood. It seeps into our skin if we allow it and the personality of the visual and sensory world meld together.
These moments are my subject, these moments take on a painterly form.
