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Living Seas Project

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IMG_1541Today I met up with Sam Collin (Marine Planning Officer for the Scottish Wildlife Trust) at the Freespace Gallery to chat about their Living Seas Project.

Sam suggested we meet in the gallery so he could see the Harbour paintings and he also wanted to say thanks for donating 10% of sales from the Harbour exhibition towards the Living Seas and Marine projects.

It’s really just a small donation so it was very nice of Sam to drop by and a pleasure to meet him, but I do plan to continue where possible to donate towards the Scotish Wildlife Trust and in general to work where I can to help support environmental projects.

The exhibition continues till the 30th June at Freespace Gallery (which is run by Kate and Terence, who’ve been a pleasure to work with). Also, many thanks again to folks who’ve bought paintings or prints, it’s good to know that sales of these contribute a little towards conservation of Scotland’s beautiful coast.

On that subject here are some photos of my trips around east coast harbours in the last few months. I love the textures of crails and ropes!..

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‘Harbour’ exhibition launch

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P1080740 P1080737The preview evening of Harbour went well – there was a really nice buzz, good conversations, several sales and an upcoming commission!

Harbour runs until the 30th June. Many thanks to all who came along and to Terence at the Freespace gallery for his help and good cheer.

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The Freespace Gallery was the perfect scale for these smaller works, the wall screen was a good feature too, displaying a showreel of art collaborations between myself, composer/cellist Atzi Muramatsu and poet Jennifer L Williams. (Atzi recently won a BAFTA Best Composer Award at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards, very well deserved!)

Showreel..

This is the start of a busy summer this year – my next exhibition will be on a bigger scale with an entirely new theme inspired by the village of Casares in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. More about that next week…

 

Seacliff Harbour

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'Seacliff 1'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Seacliff 1’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

'Seacliff 3'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Seacliff 3’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

'Seacliff 2'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Seacliff 2’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

These are the last three paintings in the Harbour series for the upcoming exhibition, which launches in just three days!

Exhibition details Here

Crail and North Berwick

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'Crail 4'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood

‘Crail 4’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood

'Crail 5'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood

‘Crail 5’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood

'North Berwick 2'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood

‘North Berwick 2’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood

Today’s paintings of boats at Crail and North Berwick, and the harbour wall at Crail. These are for the upcoming exhibition Harbour – all details Here

I’ll probably paint three to five more, just a few days till the exhibition on the 3rd June, Looking forward to it!

Cove and Elie Bays

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'Elie Bay 2'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Elie Bay 2’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

'Cove Bay 2'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Cove Bay 2’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

Today’s paintings of Cove Bay and Elie Bay on the east coast of Scotland, for the upcoming exhibition Harbour – all details Here

 

Crail and Elie Harbours

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'Crail 1'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Crail 1’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

'Elie 1'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Elie 1’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

Today’s paintings of Crail and Elie Harbours, for the upcoming exhibition Harbour. Details Here

These were painted today from sketches yesterday at both harbours. Crail is a quite typical Fife fishing village which has similarities with many of the atmospheric harbours along the east coast, but Elie feels different entirely – quite dreamlike. I’m still working on capturing this, but really enjoyed the contrast of both styles today.

Some photos from yesterday..

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Crail

Elie

Elie

 

 

North Berwick and Pittenweem

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'Pittenweem Harbour 3'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Pittenweem Harbour 4’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

'North Berwick Harbour'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘North Berwick Harbour’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

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Today’s paintings of Pittenweem and North Berwick Harbours, for the upcoming exhibition Harbour on the 3rd June.

Details about the exhibition Here

 

Pittenweem

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'Pittenweem 3'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Pittenweem 3’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

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'Pittenweem 1'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Pittenweem 1’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

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'Pittenweem 2'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Pittenweem 2’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

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Today’s paintings of Pittenweem Harbour on the East Coast of Fife.

These are for the upcoming exhibition – Harbour, which launches on the 3rd June at Freespace Gallery in Edinburgh.

All details Here

New Exhibition – ‘Harbour’

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Harbour – launches on Friday 3rd June at the Freespace Gallery,

'Pittenweem 3'. Mixed media on 8x8" wood panel

‘Pittenweem 3’. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood panel

Edinburgh. (address below)

The exhibition features a series of works on wood (created this year) and takes inspiration from Scotland’s iconic east coast harbours such as Cove Bay, Seacliff, North Berwick, Elie, Crail and Pittenweem.

The exhibition will also help raise awareness and funds in aid of the Scottish Wildlife Trust with 10% of sales going towards the Living Seas project which aims to assist with the recovery of Scotland’s marine life and ensure future marine activity is carried out in a sustainable and environmental manner

Harbour runs from 4th to 30th June (launch/preview- Friday 3rd June 6 – 8pm) at the Freespace Gallery in Edinburgh (7 Easter Road, EH7 5PU) – a space for artists to show their work for free and a meeting place for cultural exchange and ideas related to Scotland and beyond.

Facebook Event page Here

Join us for a glass of wine on preview night – Friday 3rd June from 6 – 8pm

Harbour paintings

Peter Potter Gallery open day

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shapeimage_3The Peter Potter Gallery is holding an open day this weekend.

'Cockenzie Power Station, 26th September 2015'. Mixed media on 17x11" wood panel

‘Cockenzie Power Station, 26th September 2015’

I have a series of limited edition prints of ‘Cockenzie Power Station’ currently on sale there, and there are some beautiful works by well known Scottish artists such as Moyna Flanigan, David Faithful and a range of contemporary landscape paintings and prints, also ceramics.

I’ll be dropping in on Saturday to have a look, also as there will be free coffee, tea and cake!

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