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Moving Mountain Monoprints<\/span><\/p>\n When this exhibition comes to Gracefield Arts Centre in November I will be running a one-day monoprinting workshop – please contact\u00a0arts@dumgal.gov.ukfor booking information.<\/p>\n From the Concrete to the Sublime<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Those of you who know of my interest in drawing the Forth Estuary Bridges may have caught sight of my new pictures of the Queensferry Crossing in From the Concrete to the Sublime<\/a> – a fascinating group show curated by Derrick Guild at the Scottish Gallery in June this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Day Crossing, study II 2018<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Depth of Field – until August 18th 2018<\/span><\/p>\n During the stormy months of February and March this year I visited the island of Iona and the \u00a0Ardnamurchan Peninsula to make initial studies towards the completion of large watercolours \u00a0currently being exhibited in Depth of Field<\/a> at the beautifully sited Tatha Gallery in Newport on Tay until August 18th <\/sup>alongside the work of Helen Glassford and Paul Furneaux<\/p>\n We will be giving a talk there about our work in the gallery, in conversation with fellow artist and gallery director Helen Glassford, on August 5th <\/sup>11am -12noon<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘Three Calm Pink Stones, Iona’<\/p>\n Watercolour on yuan paper on silk 2018<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As one of the 10 past presidents of the SSA (Society of Scottish Artists) I will be exhibiting work in PPSSA at Wall Projects<\/a> in Montrose which will see the launch of a brand new annual Presidents Prize for the SSA\u00a0\u00a0from August 10th <\/sup>to September 1st<\/sup><\/p>\n Perhaps my\u00a0Anatomy of Haste <\/em>Festival Exhibition at the Scottish Gallery last year has inspired the curatorship of this photography show Planes, Trains & Automobiles at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery; I have been invited to give a lecture about my work in the context of this excellent collection at the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre<\/a> at lunchtime on August 21st and look forward to seeing many of you there during the Edinburgh Festival<\/p>\n ‘Pudong Pacific’ oil on Canvas, 2017<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The publication Anatomy of Haste\u00a0which accompanied last years Festival exhibition at the Scottish Gallery is now at last available to buy via this website<\/a>, and those of you with an Estuary Catalogue from 2015- hold on to it- now entirely out of print and so getting more valuable daily!<\/p>\n<\/a>Inspired by last year\u2019s trip on the Norwegian Hurtigruten ship sailing through the Lofoten islands I created a series of \u2018Moving Mountain\u2019 monoprints, a part of the live printmaking event during the \u2018Ages of Wonder\u2019 exhibition at the end of 2017, which were subsequently exhibited in the Academicians Gallery of the Royal Scottish Academy in February\/ March this year.\u00a0\u00a0Two of the best of this series have entered the permanent collection of the RSA and are currently on tour <\/a>with editioned etchings by other printmaking members of the RSA: Delia Baillie, Stuart Duffin, Paul Furneaux, Jessica Harrison, Marion Smith and Frances Walker.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nPPSSA at Wall Projects, Montrose<\/h2>\n
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