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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 7TH JANUARY 2021: DAY 284

1/7/2021

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New work in progress: 
Working title: "Turn around, The Summoner's Tale".
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. 7 th January 2021.
Part 5

There’s a little know fact in the history of 20th century painting; did you know that Jackson Pollock was known as ‘the cowboy painter’? Now Pollock liked this nickname and did a lot to cultivate the image as the tough, hard-drinking, misogynist artist. But that isn’t actually where the nickname springs from. Pollock was known as the cowboy painter because he painted cowboys. Now you may think to yourself ‘I’ve seen Jackson Pollock’s paintings, they are nonrepresentational, there are no cowboy in them’. And on the surface that is true, literally on the surface; what is underneath is something quite different. Certainly, in the early days of Pollocks nonrepresentational work he actually had great difficulty making the initial marks on the canvas that work give him a starting point for his paintings, he needed some marks which he could ‘abstract’. As you’ve probably already guessed the ideas and images that he used to make the initial marks he needed were studies of cowboy, horses and waggons, these were then worked and reworked into abstract marks until the original images completely disappeared. And so in this way, nonrepresentational suddenly becomes abstract.

To be continued…

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