antony clarkson
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    • 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
The Self-Isolation Residency
Athole House Studio

Dunoon, Scotland, 2020-2021
Portrait (Virtual) Exhibition
Air Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2020


During the flight back to Scotland I resolved that this enforced hiatus must be considered and appreciated as an opportunity rather than endured as a problem. This was going to be a conscious journey of  introspection regarding my creative practice; allowing me to explore my artistic motivations in the widest possible sense. Although particularly regarding the ever-problematic subject of painting.
Desiderata: a self portrait, oils on board, SOLD.
Everything But the Kitchen Sink. Acrylic on paper.
Opacity. Acrylic on paper.
Idle Hands. Acrylic on paper.
Idle Hands II. Acrylic on paper.
Idle Hands III, Adam. Acrylic on paper.
My 'Personal Topographies' series was the main body of work to come out of this residency, that is covered fully in it's own right via this link. Before I began that work and as part of it's development process, I commenced with research considering various other possible directions and techniques. As I was pretty much confined to the studio 23 hours a day my first instinct was to explore myself, portraiture, and my immediate surroundings, still life; and often both in combination. 'Desiderata: a self-portrait' (above), which stemmed from this period, was shown as part of 'Portrait', a very successful 'virtual' exhibition run by Air Gallery; one of the first exhibitions of its type to run during lockdown.
Near Black Mirror. Oil and resin on plywood block.
First Grey Near Black Oil and resin on plywood block.
Yellow Ochre on Near Black. Oil and resin on ply block.
Five Sisters Study in acrylic on board.
Rannoch Moor Study in acrylic on board.
Although this initial work was successful in it's own right I quickly became aware that there was something more important to be considered as part of my isolation. In the past I have made a lot of landscape work and still have sketchbooks full of it during my reflective periods I looked through these, along with a great deal else of my back catalogue, such as work from an earlier period as a process painter which considered my palette and relationship to paint in very specific terms. It was the influence of both of these subjects, landscape and process painting, combined with notions of how I have evolved internal landscapes of my years of travel which culminated in my 'Personal Topographies Series' of paintings for the solo exhibition which reopened Dunoon Burgh Hall for it's first exhibition after the Covid lockdown ended. 
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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