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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 20th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 236

11/20/2020

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"On my easel No 11:", Working title, 'Autumn Highlands'.

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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.'
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 19th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 235

11/19/2020

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"On my easel No 10:", Working title, 'Haze/Void'.

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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.'
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 18th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 234

11/18/2020

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Priming Day.

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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 17th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 233

11/17/2020

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'I'm just going to leave this here...No:75' "Last light".

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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 16th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 232

11/16/2020

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Home Study.

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Today i'm feeling quite introspective, the weather is very bad, I'm having some problems with my foot and really don't feel like going out for my daily walk or even standing for long periods in the studio. I have realised that I haven't spent a great deal of time actually drawing recently and so I've decided tyo embalk on a series of simple studies; jusr basically still-life drawings of different aspects of my study fromwhere I habitually sit. This will have a two fold purpose, the first one is obviously to practice my drawing skills, which I feel that I have probably neglected of late. The second purpose behind these is to reflect once again upon the nature of isolation, as in how small a world can become when one is confined alone to a single space for a long period of time, but how even that space can offer opportunies.
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 15th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 231

11/15/2020

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'I'm just going to leave this here...No:74' "Highlands from here".

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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 14th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 230

11/14/2020

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New Painting, "From Helensburgh to the Highlands",
Carved from This Land Series 2020, oil on canvas, 400 x 400 mm.

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Having reflected on this piece for a couple of days I could see that it did need just a couple of extra touches here and there, but Now it's complete I'm very happy with it.
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 13th NOVEMBER 2020: DAY 229

11/13/2020

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"On my easel No 9:", Working title, 'Distant Highlands'.

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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.'

As I'm working on this series of landscapes I'm finding it a really interesting and useful way of exploring different marks that I can use to express ideas with impasto oil paint and knife. Obviously this is something that I've done previously but never to this extent. I won't always use the same knife marks to express the same things, but in regards to this series of landscapes I'm really happy with how handling the sky and water. I'm not quite as sure about the land section yet, which is why this is still on my easel.
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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 12th november 2020: DAY 228

11/12/2020

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'I'm just going to leave this here...No:73' "Also on my easel".

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THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 11th november 2020: DAY 227

11/11/2020

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Similarities, coincidences and influences.

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Over the last week or so I've been working on a couple of semi-abstract landscapes which contrast the bright, Autumnal oranges and yellows of the landscape against the dark blue and mauves of the Autumn skies. When these paintings came off the easels, they were transfer into my gallery space for me to consider them further. When I brought them through to hang I was immediately struck by their similarities to a painting which I began last year of Saint Mark's Basilica which I began just over a year ago and has once again be hanging in the gallery for me to consider. This is an image of Saint Mark's which I was very fortunate to witness as the last sun of late afternoon illuminated the facade ahead of the oncoming evening storm and I immediately knew that I had to paint that image.
 
And so, I've lived with this image hanging in my gallery throughout my self-isolation; I've walked past it and considered it so many times. The dark wedge of the sky against the bright ochre diagonal of the Basilica contrasted with the light and dark reflections of the wet stone square. The parallels are exact. The sky is the sky. The jagged forms of the Basilica become the rugged outline of the hills. And the shining wet paving becomes the reflective sea and sand.
 
So, are these similarities coincidence or influence? I suspect the latter, but subconsciously. I didn't go out to paint landscapes influenced by this stunning vision I received of the architecture, but perhaps the constant exposure to its visage left an image on my retina or in my memory. Either way, now that I see the equation in full, I can’t help but take influence from in now.
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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