Bring me sunshine - I have been infusing my imagination and paintings with the remembered warmth and light of the sun. Living vicariously through paint, I have made a short series of small paintings - Seven Suns & Two Trees - you can see them on my website here.
I journeyed south for a visit to Edinburgh - arriving with paint under my fingernails and mud on my boots, like a wild country person. Headed to The Fruitmarket Gallery, The Scottish Gallery, Greyfriars Art Shop; spending all my money, not on whisky and beer - but paint and brushes.
I journeyed south for a visit to Edinburgh - arriving with paint under my fingernails and mud on my boots, like a wild country person. Headed to The Fruitmarket Gallery, The Scottish Gallery, Greyfriars Art Shop; spending all my money, not on whisky and beer - but paint and brushes.
Louise Bourgeois's (1911 - 2010) Insomnia Drawings at The Fruitmarket Gallery - pieces which were made during a period of insomnia in the mid '90s and 'rescued' from the bin by the artist's then assistant. I was rather horrified, imagining all work I throw away - expecting it never to be seen again, but Bourgeois agreed to the exhibition. Also, fascinated at this insight into the artist's thoughts displayed in - red biro, gouache; sets of three, pattern - all framed and arranged in chronological order around the gallery walls. Then, upstairs - Bourgeois's larger 'I Give Everything Away' drawings - visceral and hard to look at, but fascinating...
David Cook's exhibition 'Savage Tranquility at The Scottish Gallery - fabulously think paint, scenes local to the North East of Scotland. Then a wee step down the street to the Dundas Street, Greyfriars Art Shop, where I had to stop myself from buying ALL their paint.
David Cook's exhibition 'Savage Tranquility at The Scottish Gallery - fabulously think paint, scenes local to the North East of Scotland. Then a wee step down the street to the Dundas Street, Greyfriars Art Shop, where I had to stop myself from buying ALL their paint.
Edinburgh skyline - castle & sky stealing the show. Photo by F. E. Clark, 2014.
Saturated with looking at other artists' work, walking around Edinburgh's streets, carrying my precious paint - I realised that against the Gothic skyline - the sky was stealing the show - beautiful and cold enough for the snow that came later, I could not take my eyes off it.
HAT STATUS: Very glad of my winter hat
PAINTING STATUS: Sunshine wanderings
WRITING STATUS: Completed a very short piece for this month's Deeside Writers - must practice reading it aloud, apologies to anyone who got turned off by the theme I set!
READING STATUS: Miffy the Artist by Dick Bruna
COFFEE STATUS: The best cup of coffee we had in Edinburgh was served by a lovely cheerful waitress at Ryan's Bar.
F. E. Clark, 16th February, 2014.
PAINTING STATUS: Sunshine wanderings
WRITING STATUS: Completed a very short piece for this month's Deeside Writers - must practice reading it aloud, apologies to anyone who got turned off by the theme I set!
READING STATUS: Miffy the Artist by Dick Bruna
COFFEE STATUS: The best cup of coffee we had in Edinburgh was served by a lovely cheerful waitress at Ryan's Bar.
F. E. Clark, 16th February, 2014.
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