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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 18th April 2020: Day 20

4/18/2020

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I'm now nearly 3 weeks into this residency and so far I'm happy witht the way the work is going, for a while I wasn't sure. I wondered if it was heading in the wrong direction for a while last week, if the theme for the project wasn't completely wrong, but then I realised that ir was just the painting that was wrong.  Now that I have started this new piece everything feels better.

I'm working quite quickly on this painting, which is always a good sign; it usually means that I am on the right track. If I take a long time on a piece, as I was beginning to on the last painting, it usually means that I am unsure if I am heading in the right direction with it, as proved to be the case. I am much more certain of this new painting, so far it is doing exactly what I want it to. But this quick process does mean that I have reached a critical juncture sooner than I expected.  As I mentioned yesterday after I have have completed to tonal blocking in I start to refine these tonal areas, to drag on the details that I want to include from the series of loose shapes that the blocking in creates. The blocking in is a very quick and free process, the brush moves at pace across the canvas giving just suggestions of what is happening with very loose brush strokes. And it is these loose brush strokes that are in some ways problematic. The free way in which these brush strokes describe the scene and the objects therein can be just throwaway marks destined to be painted over, but as a painter grows in experience these early marks, all be they  a form of under-painting can be crafted with great qualities of their own, so much so that they ask to be regarded as part of the completed work. This is the point that I found myself at this morning, I looked at my work from yesterday and realised that there were certain brush strokes that I need to retain into the finished piece; really good, descriptive marks that could never be duplicated.

This is where I found myself this morning, eager to continue with the painting, but having to take some time out to really closely access what I had already achieved so as to know what to paint over and what to retain. These can be a very difficult decisions as once an area is painted out it can never be retrieved exactly as it was previously so this careful analysis along with precise note taking is the only way to be completely sure; 'retain the top half of the yellow stroke on the left hand back post of the chair, but the lower section should be painted out in red'. From what I can see, I've managed to keep the balance right, at the top is todays progress for you to judge for yourself.

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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