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The Athole House Studio
Self-Isolation Artist Residency
30th March 2020

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Over my career I have taken part in many artist residencies in various parts of the world; I have even organised and run a residency program myself. 2020 has brought new challenges to us all, I however intend to treat these challenges as opportunities. With this in mind today, the first day of my self-isolation having arrived back from my studio in the Untied States last night, I I launch my new blog which will become an integral part of this website as I redesign is over the coming weeks.

Artist Residencies give artists the space and perhaps more importantly the time to make new work; I intend to treat my time in self-isolation in the same way that I would if I were on an artist residency in another studio in another part of the world. Athole House Studio maybe one of my home studios but for me it is a work space, and lets face it, we all now have the time.

THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 30th JANUARY 2021: DAY 307

1/30/2021

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New work in progress. Working title:
"See creatures(monsters) at dawn (by first light)."
Oil paint on plywoodblock, 150 x 150 mm

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19, 20, 21: Finding a reason to paint, in search of the sublime. 30th January 2021.
Part 20: 'Interpretation, abstraction, illusion. Describe what you actually see?

In the past I have deliberately created surreal paintings where the context behind them was very much the same as the my reasoning in my ‘trying to find a reason to paint’ at the moment, in that they were a vehicle on which to hang things on that had no recognisable purpose but that felt familiar at the same time. In producing paintings which are suggestive of ‘things’, very suggestive it might be said, but are suggestive of things that do not exist, how would said paintings be received and interpreted as a spectacle?

These paintings would appear to depict uncannily familiar, although unidentifiable, objects, conditions or environments. These depictions would seem to follow physical principles such as gravity, solidity, liquidity, gaseousness etc. They would also appear to react to external influences in ways which might be expected of physical objects, casting shadows for instance.

Would such paintings open a field of dialogue with spectators which might broaden the discussion into the illusion of painting? “It is a hill, it is a sunset, it is a nose. It looks like a hill, it looks like a sunset, it looks like a nose. It is reminiscent of a hill, it is evocative of a sunset, it has a similar shape to a nose, but it is actually an illusion created by paint”.

To be continued…

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