For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five artists who explore painting with their work: James Moore, Helen Dryden, Alistair Woods, Ursula Leach and Olivia Irvine
Mont Sainte Victoire, After Cezanne, 2019
A landscape painting of Mont Saint Anne Victoire, which Cezanne painted many times, and which I visited via Google Maps.
Agadoo, 2019
Painting, acrylic on canvas
Rough Justice, 2021
Oil paint, spray paint, embroidered cotton, smoke, pastel and enamel pin badge on linen.
Hedgerow Gap, 2022
A broken hedge fragmented and not meeting up in a sea of huge fields.
Once Upon a Carpet, 2021
This painting is oil and egg tempera on canvas with a bit of collage. It shows a highly patterned carpet with two children. The pattern, seen in perspective is taking over the scene; the children are flatter, as if superimposed. There is a statue of a male torso on a table. The mood is one of daydreaming. The carpet is based on the one currently in my mother's house, although we had long since grown up by then. The painting was part of a family project funded by Creative Scotland and was exhibited in a three person show 'Storyforms' at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.
Published 7 October 2022