3rd ANNUAL OPEN SUMMER EXHIBITION
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3rd ANNUAL OPEN SUMMER EXHIBITION
SCOTTISH ART S C E N E S 19 SPECIAL ISSUE APRIL 2014 FEATURING The Royal Scottish Society Of Painters in Watercolour 3rdAnnual Open Summer Exhibition The RSW returns to The Meffan in Forfar with their Summer Exhibition. This is one of the very few exhibitions open to all artists and as you will see it gives an exciting mix of artwork. This is only a taste of what is on offer and a visit to the exhibition is highly recommended. The Society’s Patron is: S HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay. David Smith RSW Salmon Nets and Bothy © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved xx John Inglis R S W P R S W R G I P r e s i d e n t H A W I The painting is one of a series I made in Orkney on the Bet Low scholarship I received for 2013. It is based on a response to the landscape of Orkney and the architecture and design of chambered tombs which are a significant feature of the man made, altered landscape of the islands. My recent paintings have taken as their source the coastline of Angus. In particular I have been drawn to an area I have known well since my student days- around the North of Lunan Bay and at the atmospheric, deserted village of Usan, towards Montrose See our Special issue magazine on John by visiting our Magazine Library. John Inglis PRSW RGI HAWI Line in the Landscape, Orkney Watercolour 25 x 32 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Ann Wegmüller R W S R S W The painting "Sand Dunes" is not of a particular place but more of a response in colour of going down onto the beach amongst the dunes on a sunny day. My paintings, both in oil and watercolour, formerly landscape based and descriptive in character were a response to the ever changing light of Scotland. Through the years my work has become statements about the land and particularly the land around the sea edge. These are an abstraction or distillation of what I have seen and are painted in the studio. The colours reflect my emotional response to the place. Followings travels in France, Greece and Egypt and my increasing interest in religious symbolism and iconography, I now try to paint the spiritual meaning of a place with its underlying values and complexities. Ann Wegmüller RWS RSW Sand Dunes Gouache 52 x 53cms © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Janet Melrose R S W I have been making paintings in this wood for over a year. I am interested in the interplay between the rooks building their nests/ shelters and the structures built by the children. My recent work has involved me looking at an area of woodland close to my studio. I am aware of a shift in thinking when I enter the wood. There is a heightened sense of awareness; an edginess, a snap of a twig, the raucous cries of rooks. In the midst of all this is a shelter, a place of sanctuary, a retreat, a place to reflect on my transitory presence in the world. Janet Melrose RSW The making of a shelter 100 x 70cm image size Watercolour on gesso panel © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Hugh T Rowson R S W "Willapa 1908" This work was painted during 2013 using watercolour, acryclic paint and acrylic ink. The image is derived from a European visit and an educational publication. “Floral Jar” This painting was created using watercolour, and acrylic paint. The painting has been produced from an object on display in a local art gallery. I seek to bring life to inanimate objects in a variety of mediums. Personal poems are juxtaposed to create watercolour fluidity. I typically transfer images from thumb-nail sketches to completed paintings. I also create spatial ambiguity with the use of strong, meaningful, pattern and decoration as common themes in a symbolic language. Hugh T Rowson RSW Willapa 1908 Watercolour, acrylic paint, and acrylic ink 30 x 37 inches Hugh T Rowson RSW Floral Jar Watercolour, and acrylic paint 18 x 22 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Anda Paterson R S W R G I P A I Life continues in medieval fashion in the hill towns of the Algarve, and the Alentejo. This picture is based on drawings made over many years visiting the region. I am fascinated by the structure and formation of human heads and hands creases, hollows, baggy skin around knuckles and wrists. With irony and poetic justice I am rapidly developing a strong resemblance to my drawings of vulnerable and time worn people, becoming a caricature of myself--the messy untidiness of human life, ridiculous absurd and comic, struggling and sometime tragic. My images have wrecked their revenge on me for my chasing and collecting them. Anda Paterson RSW RGI PAI The Goose Woman Mixed media 20 x 20 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved James Spence R S W R G I P A I This watercolour was painted from studies made from my caravan at Kinkell Braes. The town is an ever changing drama of light seen from the height of the Braes I have painted many subjects and tried many styles. I first saw the Western Isles when camping at Morar in 1958 with Ian McCulloch and Ewan McAslan. Despite years painting in Spain and Portugal, etchings and lithographs of the bullfight, woodcuts of boxers, oils of sports and landscapes from the air, I have returned again and again to the memory of those sunset images from Morar. Living near Ben Lomond the dawns and sunsets provide me with an ever changing drama of light and mood. Now using my favourite medium, watercolour, I try to capture the wonder of those early days in Morar. James Spence RSW RGI PAI St Andrews from Kinkell Braes Watercolour 18 x 25 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved David Smith R S W I work in both oil and watercolour. My approach to painting is dependant on the subject. With harbour scenes for example, it is somewhat spontaneous. As the painting progresses, the composition becomes congested and busy as strong design and bold forms are complimented by vibrant colour. In contrast, my Hebridean landscapes are more minimal in composition, where vast open skies dominate the land. I use a more sombre palette of blues and greys in these paintings. David Smith RSW Hamnavoe Watercolour 18 x 21 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Gregor Smith R S W V i c e P r e s i d e n t R S W f o r t h e W e s t This is the Sound of Mull making for Oban from Ardnamurchan. Good summer sailing. My subject matter is mainly drawn from surrounding landscape, seascape and coastal edges. Colours, textures and changing weather patterns provide the mood and atmospheres. Sketch books and visual contact are vital. As I work in printmaking, painting, both oil and watercolours, then choices have to be made. See our Quarterly Magazine No 12, which features Gregor by visiting our Magazine Library. Gregor Smith RSW The Sound of Mull Watercolour 9 x19 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Archibald Dunbar McIntosh R S W R G I Having been born close to water, both the East and particularly the West Coast of Scotland, I have always been fascinated by fishing boats, steamers, harbours and the many images created by the shapes, colour and forms suggested and associated within this area. For me, they continue to evolve and surprise. Archibald Dunbar McIntosh RSW RGI Lanark Acrylic 32 x 31 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Margaret S Rhind R S W I paint mainly in watercolour because I especially enjoy the translucent qualities of this medium and the ability to create depth by applying in layers. My personal interest lies in expressing a sense of time and place through colour and form in landscape and in plant form. These, in all their stages of growth and decay, combined with the changing role and effect of man on the landscape, intrigue me. This is what I explore. Margaret S Rhind RSW Winter Sun Watercolour 29 x 20.5 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Derek Robertson R S W A view of the Tay from the artist's home village of Balmerino. As snow began to fall on the old, ruined pier the winter sun lit the flakes like golddust. For a second, the flakes paused on the oilydark surface of the river before they melted and the surface of the water seemed to shimmer gold. Derek is inspired by direct sketching in the field and sees his work as a process - from brief and characterful field studies done outdoors to contemplative paintings produced in the studio which lead to more reflective and imaginative work drawing on elements of nature, folklore, rural-industrial archaeology and personal experience. He often works in collage, assemblage and installations - frequently on projects in collaboration with scientists, environmentalists and other creative practitioners. His work is concentrating more on engagement with environmental subjects and the development of a creative and collaborative approach to his work. Derek Robertson RSW Ice and salt water Watercolour and Gold Acrylic on Paper 89 x 110 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Lynn McGregor R S W My paintings are acrylic on board and are inspired by my immediate surroundings. The sea is prominent in much of my recent work, which has been produced on Islandmore, an otherwise uninhabited island on Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, where I am living and working at present. My studio is close to the edge of the Lough and I paint without sketches or photographs, hoping to capture an immediacy in my work and to evoke in the viewer something of my own emotional response to the subject. Lynn McGregor RSW Light Breaking Through Acrylic on board 61 x 61 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Peter Bourne R S W The visual relationship between glazed structures and their contents has always been a fascination for me. How one sees the reflections and variety of contrasting images is part of the creative process. I love the way this medium works, the directness of it. I try to paint in a direct and simple manner to convey the idea. I use figurative and often bold rich colour. Peter Bourne RSW Glasshouse Gouache 45 x 48 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved James Cosgrove R S W “Beyond the Looking Glass” is from a group of pictures called “A Series of Dreams”. A narrative is unfolding in a confined space (perhaps a stage) from which a flying dog and a strange figure seek escape. The dog with mechanical wings is inspired by a Goya drawing 'El Perro Volante' which is inscribed at the bottom right. Living in Ayrshire and looking across to Arran and Bute, the Firth of Clyde provides a constantly changing variety of images and moods - the channel busy with fishing boats, cargo vessels, yachts and the odd frigate or submarine. Ideas are collected through drawing, collage, photography and text. These form a substantial memory bank of images and circumstances which feed into picture making. Themes are often informed by the writings of such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Freud and Jung, Bob Dylan and 'Theatres of the Absurd'. Recent works explore random images which can fade in and out of halfremembered situations, dreams or childhood reflections. Some figures are central to suggested narratives, some are witnesses, others are disengaged-in a world of their own making. James Cosgrove RSW Beyond the Looking Glass 60 x 80 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Helga Chart R S W R W S A still life of collected objects. A favourite old jug which belonged to my grandmother provides the central motif. The bright tabletop is set against a gloomy Scottish landscape enlivened with pink fringes. My watercolour work often draws on observations made in the natural world. I make sketchbook studies of animal and bird forms along with insect and plant life. My intention is to use these forms in a number of compositional ways and their interpretation in the final painting may be wide and varied. This free approach to the work is also reflected in my use of water based mixed media along with watercolour. Helga Chart RSW RWS Still Life Rosslyn Jet Watercolour / acrylic 50 x 80 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Paul Murray R S W P A I The painting consists of arranged objects and surfaces which create a balance of physical shapes and negative spaces. The composition of objects, collected in the Middle East, is constructed with layers of brushwork, drawing and collage. My landscape and still life paintings demonstrate a delicate compositional balance of physical shape and negative space. I attempt to create compositions that develop through layers of brushwork, drawing and collage as they move between abstract and representational marks: the drawn mark and collaged material are there to emphasise the textures and patterns of the observed object and scene. Paul Murray RSW PAI Chalice and Arabic Pots Gouache and collage 81 x 86cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved David Sinclair R S W David studied Drawing and Painting at the Glasgow School of Art under the tutelage of William and Mary Armour, and David Donaldson. Awarded a Post Diploma and a major travel scholarship. A period of study followed in Holland, Paris and London. David Sinclair RSW Distribution Watercolour/tempera/silverpoint/chalk 29 x 21 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Gail Murray R S W My subject matter consists mainly of still life or landscape, sometimes composed together or separately. These reflect experiences, memories and observations relating to stimuli, based on personal objects, my garden, birds, animals and the human form. Stylised, semi-abstracted sometimes decorative imagery feature in my work. Colour, texture and line are important elements, the use of paint quality, mixed media, print and collage playing an important part, as well as scale, which can vary within the composition. Gail Murray RSW First Snow 36.5 x 34.5 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Robert Murray R S W R G I My painting is a visual statement. The discussion of theories, meanings or subject matter in a painting is of no particular significance or interest to me; it is not what, for me, painting is about - the image is the 'thing'. Robert Murray RSW RGI March Light 48 x 41cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Catriona Mann R S W V i c e M A L L B P P V A S P r e s i d e n t f o r t h e E a s t I have just spent some time in Vietnam and this work was inspired by temple interiors - prayers written on purple strips of paper , red and gold incense sticks ,smoke and fires and lucky goldfish. I am primarily a figurative artist. I draw, rather than paint and derive inspiration from music, poetry or prose and incorporate reinterpreted pieces of writing that touch my imagination. Often I will incorporate this with natural scenes- in a seascape or landscape. I use water based paints and pencils and work on mounting card which can take plenty of punishment. If a piece is not working it can be washed off and the ghost becomes the basis for another work. See our Quarterly Magazine No 9, which features Catriona by visiting our Magazine Library. Catriona Mann MA LLB PPVAS Prayers, Vietnam 67 x 82 cm Watercolour and Collage © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Ian McKenzie Smith C B E H R A P P R S A P P R S W Studied with Ian Fleming and R Henderson Blyth in Aberdeen and with J McIntosh Patrick at Hospitalfield. Met Kenzo Okada in Paris and developed a lifelong interest in oriental painting and zen philosophy, informed by the work of American colour field painters of the 1950s. Ian McKenzie Smith CBE HRA PPRSA PPRSW Kozanji Watercolour on Japanese paper 65 x 48 cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Caroline Bailey R S W Landscape and still life are the predominant subjects in my work. I am interested particularly in the traces of human activity etched on the wilderness. Preliminary work, some made in-situ, form the basis of my paintings but only serve as a beginning. A plan conceived at the outset of a work is frequently eradicated by its completion, each piece being the starting point for the next. Caroline Bailey RSW Upper Edinbane Fields Water based mixed media 33 x 37 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved Claire Harrigan R S W The key characteristics of my work are colour and light. I am not trying to recreate what is there,and although the subject matter is important as the instigator of the painting, gradually it becomes less significant as the emphasis changes to composing with colour, shape and texture. Claire Harrigan RSW Planter's Garden, Nevis Acrylic and Oil Pastel 19 x 37 inches © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved George Gilbert R S W The objects in this still life are part of a collection I have collected over many years which offer endless opportunities for variations on a theme. I have always been interested in painting techniques and my preferred media are acrylic, watercolour and pen and ink wash. Generally the subject dictates the medium. I am a realist and my main aim throughout has been to respond to the subjects which interest me. I am intrigued by the way light animates the objects in my studio. Similarly I am drawn to the buildings and harbours of the East Neuk of Fife where I have lived for nearly 40 years. The elements and the patina of age lend them a character which challenges the skill of the painter. George Gilbert RSW Merrylegs Water-colour 50 x 73cm © scottish-art-scene.com 2013 All rights reserved John Brown R S W John’s solo exhibitions generally consist of a body of new work which is thematically inspired by travel. Following the tradition of many Scottish Artists, the artist finds the light, colour and landscape of Mediterranean countries richly inspiring subject matter. Over the years this has led to travelling as far as India, Mexico, Cambodia and Zanzibar, but the familiar territory of Tuscany and Catalunya continues to provide a wealth of ongoing inspiration. His paintings seek to recreate the spirit or mood of the place, rather than pictorial representation. This distillation of subject matter is routed through stages of development towards the final piece and importantly, by painting away from the motif. 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