RSA OPEN EXHIBITION at The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh 28th November- 14th February 2015 http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/exhibitions/rsa-open-exhibition-call-to-artists-2/ Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition 2015 at The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, 21st December 2015- 18th January 2016 http://www.s-s-a.org/ssa-annual-exhibition-2015/
‘TIPPING NOT FALLING’. A 3 day masterclass in Fife. 25/26/27th September 2015 http://www.offtherailsarthouse.com/event/tipping-not-falling-in-three-parts-a-mixed-media-masterclass/ Break. Rupture. Crack. Split. Open. Ripple. Waver. Wobble. Snap. Replicate. Completely re work with alternative materials and innovative processes. Creating without bounds and any notions beyond the moment. I had ideas about how I would use the intensely creative space and time … More DRAWING LIGHT IN AND DARKNESS OUT- SPACE
Painting research trip to the Scottish Highlands, Handa Island: Sunrise over Scotland, 27.08.15 Fantastic perspective! Wonderful Scotland. Wild, rock deep, beautiful blue, mountainous mainland. Preparing to voyage from Tarbet to Handa Island. Dreams all around: Black sheet black Isle, talking to Will, calm, nice, not able to chat good sense though, MIND SCRAMBLED AFTER SHOCK … More The light after the darkness (Iceland, winter)- HANDA ISLAND 08/15
Research diary below edited and published as a book January 2016. Available to preview at: http://www.blurb.co.uk/books/6773706-iceland-2015 13th of January 2015 Last night I dreamt that I was in a tiny ship of hibernation. Bound for a place of deep winter. Darkness, twinkles of magic, streaks of colour in yawns of light and some needed recuperation during … More painting research: ICELAND 2015 + LIGHT – SHADOW
After spending four weeks making painting research in Pingeyri, a tiny village up in the north-west of Iceland I returned to Reykjavik and was invited to document my work in Hafnarhus, Reykjavik Art Museum’s institute of contemporary art. It was an honour to work in their library space to make a photographic record of the expressive … More Hafnarhus, Reykjavik Art Museum’s institute of contemporary art.
Awarded the Meyer Oppenheim Prize for ‘Still There and Here now’ (featured painting) in The Royal Scottish Academy’s Open Exhibition. November 2014- January 2015 Click to access RSA_Annual_Exhibition_2014.pdf
FOUR NIGHTS OF MOONLIT DREAMS FOUR DAYS OF PAINTED STREAMS Invited Artist In Residence in conjunction with an exhibition of Chagall’s ‘Daphney and Chloe’ Lithographs [Colour as form in stories of young love] The technicians cupboard- a wonderful place! Experiments with water-based Oil Paints Wellington College Chapel- 1862 The transcendental Steeple The Greenhouse painting studio! A … More RESIDENCY AT WELLINGTON COLLEGE, BERKSHIRE
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