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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 24th JANUARY 2021: DAY 301

1/24/2021

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New work in progress. Working title: "A Space for Paint."
Oil paint on canvas, 400 x 400 mm

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19, 20, 21: Finding a reason to paint, in search of the sublime. 24th January 2021.
Part 16: 'Interpretation, abstraction, illusion. Describe what you actually see?.'

I’ve been having great difficulty with the latest paintings in the series that I’m currently working on. The first 2 or 3 in the series worked really well but the subsequent ones are really not working so well for me. So far, I’ve identified a couple of potential reasons for this ‘block’, they are perhaps related to size and shape. After my first 3 paintings, which I think are all successful, I started to run out of 2ft square canvases, so I moved down to 16 inch square ones instead. I didn’t think that this would pose so many problems, but it really did. For some reason I just can’t work in the same way on this scale. It may be, and in a way I hope that is, to do with the change in the size of brush marks, if that is the problem then I feel that with time and patience it is something that I should be able to resolve. From here I moved back to larger, but rectangular, canvases and once again I’m experiencing the same problems.

I’ve been back to study my successful paintings in relation to my unsuccessful ones and I’ve concluded that it isn’t about size and shape in the way that I’d expected it to be but about how I’ve been approaching the paintings. Regardless of all the things that I’ve thought and written recently I realise that I have once again become too preoccupied with the idea of creating a painting based within the heritage of the landscape and have forgotten that its really about the paint. I do think that this neglect of painting principal has been influenced by this change in size and shape of my canvases;  the change was making me overthink my subject matter and consequently I was drawn back into the wrong context.  

Perhaps I need a sign over my studio door that says: “always remember that your subject is the paint”.

To be continued…
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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