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The Athole House Studio
Self-Isolation Artist Residency
30th March 2020 - 7th November 2021

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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 31ST JULY 2021: DAY 489

7/31/2021

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​'Perturbations III, Casting Shadows Within the Void.'
Personal Topographies. Oil pastel study on Daler Black Raven.

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This piece is proving quite problematic hence so many studies, I've not been totally convinced about the square format so trying something a little different here; I think this may solve some of the problems. 
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 30TH JULY 2021: DAY 488

7/30/2021

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'Perturbations III, Casting Shadows Within the Void.'
Personal Topographies. Watercolour study.

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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 29TH JULY 2021: DAY 487

7/29/2021

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'Perturbations III, Casting Shadows Within the Void.'
Personal Topographies. Watercolour study.

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As the premise of this painting draws heavily on the technique of watercolour I decided to try producing a few studies for it in that medium. It has turned out to be an interesting and instructive experiment as although the techniques have a family resemblance that are in actuality mirror images of each other which has caused me to think in even more depth about the whole notion of the piece. Not rethink it, think about it in greater depth.  
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 28TH JULY 2021: DAY 486

7/28/2021

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'I'm just going to leave this here...No:110', "Memoriam Dusty Hill".

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A very sad reason for a little bit of 'Vinyl  Heaven' in memory of the late Dusty Hill; I do have CDs but it seemed more appropriate to listen to the sounds of a certain era the way I first heard them. Safe travels. 
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 27TH JULY 2021: DAY 485

7/27/2021

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On my easel No 36, working title: 'Perturbations II:
Casting Shadows Within the Void.' Personal Topography Series,
​oil painting by subtraction, 407 x 610 mm

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'On my easel' is a series of posts that I am adding to the Self-Isolation Residency Blog which will consider a current painting which is within days or sometimes hours of completion. This isn't quite the same as 'work in progress' as many of the pieces under consideration in this category may actually be complete already. These are generally going to be works which I am reflecting on for one reason or another and it is these needs for reflection which are preventing me from 'accepting' the work as complete.'

'Perturbations II' working title.

I'm sure I've said this before but I really feel like I'm starting to get somewhere significant with my work. I nearly said my 'new' work but as it's all really part of the same process I'm not sure it's so much new as ongoing.

"Painting by Subtraction."

I say painting but in many ways this process feels like drawing as large parts of the image are formed by allowing the (back)ground colour to not only be visible but significantly so. It's a technique which has evolved over the course of 'The Self  Isolation  Residency', although in many ways it can be argued that it owes its origins to when I first started painting on to a 'black' ground rather than a white one. it also owes a serious 'nod' to the principles of traditional watercolour painting where the white of the paper creates the 'light ' of the image as I do the darkness here. 
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 26TH JULY 2021: DAY 484

7/26/2021

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New painting in progress, working title:
'Perturbations II: Casting Shadows Within the Void.'
Personal Topography Series,
​oil painting by subtraction, 407 x 610 mm

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Today I have introduced White for the first time in this painting, albeit mixed with Yellow Ochre to form a paler, almost Naples Yellow. It is my intention to work with some pure white in the final phase of the piece, I will however live with this tonality until it is dry before I make my final decision. 
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 25TH JULY 2021: DAY 483

7/25/2021

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'Perturbations III, Casting Shadows Within the Void.'
Personal Topographies. Oil pastel study.

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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 24TH JULY 2021: DAY 482

7/24/2021

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'Perturbations III, Casting Shadows Within the Void.'
Personal Topographies. Oil pastel study.

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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 23RD JULY 2021: DAY 481

7/23/2021

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Thinking-allowed No. 10: Study for 'Perturbations III:
Casting Shadows Within the Void: 
Personal Topographies.'

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As my exploration of the Void/Sublime continues I am constantly worried by any potential figurative nature with I allow to enter the painted spaces. Presently I am experimenting with simple, although still anthropomorphic forms, human figures and monoliths, or rather the shadows, or more accurately, the perturbations which they cast into the Void. However the extremities which such forms exhibit still feel uncomfortable to me. I have therefore began work on sketches for a new painting, with the same derivation but with what I hope will embody more infinite properties. 
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 22ND JULY 2021: DAY 480

7/22/2021

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 '?Boats at Sea', JMW Turner, c 1830-45 (Tate) & Extract from 'Paradise lost', J Milton 1667. 

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"Before their eyes in sudden view appear
The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark
Illimitable ocean without bound,
Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height,
And time and place are lost; where eldest Night
And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise
Of endless wars, and by confusion stand."

(Milton J. 1667. Paradise Lost)
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  • CODEX
    • plane >
      • Apophenia: An Uncanny Presence.
      • Control(s)
      • Personal Topographies
      • The Self-Isolation Residency
      • Americana
      • Mauve Skies
      • Scotland
      • Selected Drawing & Paintings,
      • The Teaching Years
      • Spatial Paintings 2006-2008
      • Paintings 2006
    • mass >
      • The Blind Men and the Elephant.
      • Spatial Conceptions 2014 - 2022
      • Painted Objects
      • Autograph
      • The Newtonian Nightmare
    • volume >
      • Enso nest
      • Someone else's storey
      • Shower, The Process Residency 2013,
      • Concrete Haiku
      • Atypical
      • The Murder of Crows.
      • Composition in White (Painting), The Breathe Residency:
      • Composition in White (Sculpture), The Breathe Residency:
      • Floorplan
      • Paper Scissors Rock
      • Pilgrimage
      • The Fifth Column
      • Tension
      • Arch
    • blogs >
      • The Self-Isolation Residency: Blog 2020-2021
      • Apophenia: An Uncanny Presence. 2022
    • artist statement
    • cv & education
    • contact