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My work focuses upon landscape: gardens, parks, woodland and shorelines. My paintings often hint at a human presence and I feel that my artwork expresses a mood of tranquillity sometimes coupled with one of unease, reflecting upon the external and inner life of the artist. The therapeutic aspect of painting and drawing interests me, how...
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My work is primarily concerned with process – building translucent glazes of paint until an illusion of light and depth are achieved. The process involves the application of multiple (up to 40 or more) thin glazes of acrylic paint and gloss medium. Each layer is dragged, pulled or manipulated with various implements – the process being...
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Statement It's about the Shape of the Journey...a documentation of works on paper and canvas in book form and sound scapes exploring our footsteps in the environment using screenprinting and photography I explore the natural forms and geometric patterns and anything else which can be used to pin down a thought, a feeling, a memory I'm drawn...
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The work on this site is gathered from various ongoing and completed projects. “The ‘summer’ theme is something I have worked on for the last year or so. In this series of work I attempt to evoke feelings of holiday nostalgia, and of a ‘common past’ many of us seem to share. With subject matter drawn from yellowing, dated family photographs,...
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'Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.' Luis Bunuel, filmmakerMy practice is concerned with the fragmentary nature of memory and identity. The work is informed by an interrogation of the physical world through drawing, painting, photographing/filming and through collecting...
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Concepts My granite sculptures express my love and concern for the human and animal condition. They address issues that are universal and relevant to today. War Veteran on loan to the World War 2 Museum at Bletchley Park illustrates the human cost of landmines. Fallen Christ, sited on the pilgrimage Island of Iona portrays the need for...
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A focus on the physicality of materials and processes involved in painting, has led to a concern with how a worked-upon object can become elevated above the level of pure aesthetics, giving it the ability to instill feelings of spiritual reverence. Through repetitive, process driven embellishments and referencing the visual facets of icons,...
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'Macdonald's deceptively naive paintings narrate a numinous land of dreams, filled with witty imagistic juxtapositions and happy surprises. Sincerity sustains her visions, yet real pictorial savvy makes her compositions compelling for their formal qualities as well as for her wonderfully upbeat sensibility' (Taplinger, M., Gallery & Studio,...
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Concepts Creation is a constant inspiration: plants, insects, landscapes and gardens. I work in watercolour and acrylic which I use together or separately, combining traditional watercolour techniques with semi-abstract backgrounds. I enjoy the traditional skills of watercolour while at the same time challenging myself to push its...
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I have always drawn and painted the human figure, it has been the main focus of my art since I was a child, and is an interest which continued through art college and beyond. When I had my four children, I recorded their childhood in drawings paintings and prints. Sometimes, years later, I have made work from the memory of these times. So I was...
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Scott McCracken’s work is concerned with the act of painting, in the dichotomy between the figurative and the abstract. His paintings create spaces, not lived but virtual ones; a space that may exist somewhere sometime. It is the relationships within the picture plane that are of significance to McCracken, creating tensions between colour,...
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The significance of negative space in painting has driven my studio research since graduating. Initially interested in the materiality of paint and the practice in transforming the medium into the subject of the artwork, my practice has progressed towards marking the structure of negative space.My paintings are formed as a result of constant...
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I am currently undertaking an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art (Scotland), but originally from Copenhagen, Denmark.Heavily influenced by the German artist Martin Kippenberger, I openly embrace a contradictory stance in my practice. This is the most truthful approach as I do not have a firm belief in what art 'should...
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Statement  I paint using  oil or egg tempera. I am interested in the way an image evolves from a combination of thoughts, ideas, memory, research, flights of fancy and the actual dynamics of the picture- making process. Much of my imagery is figurative and of seemingly ordinary yet surprising aspects of my everyday life...
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Jenny Smith works in the medium of drawing, painting, print, artists' books and video. Her work investigates the relationship between process and concept within the context of memory and place with particular reference to Zen philosophy and the Japanese concept of wabi sabi. Jenny’s current work investigates the points new digital technology...
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Through my practice, I am trying to resolve whether it is possible to make our own decisions within a cultural framework which determines those decisions for us.Painting offers a readymade model for this. Painting's well-rehearsed history, language and economic object-value inescapably influences both the viewing of - and the production of -...
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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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'Through his body of work Russell Leng employs the materiality of paint to create isolated extractions of an imagined landscape. These glimpses into future environments aim to confront the viewer's perception, as well as their understanding of landscape from within the painting tradition. Leng questions how the unceasing amalgamation...
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I'm interested in the curious aspects of human behaviour, about how we interact within society. The figures or objects I choose for my subjects are stripped bare from any details. By painting or cutting out their shapes I turn them into neutral symbols, a representation of a type, a logo that is there for the viewer to project their own views...
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David Faithfull lectures at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.Much of his work is based on the natural environment and human relationships with it historically and culturally. Recent projects have explored tides and coastlines, through text and image, and experimental Palindromic and Panoramic...
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Teaching Experience Regular visiting artist, Glasgow School of Art Painting department and MFA. CollectionsAberdeen Art Gallery; The Essl Collection, Vienna; The Fleming Collection, London; Glasgow Marshall Trust; Perth Art Gallery and Museum, The Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS Bank.
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Concepts In my work I try to create objects that escape classification while appearing visually familiar to the viewer. Using the ancient medium of stitch, I layer visual references, and disparate associations, to evoke intuitive responses that supersede cultural difference. I attempt to achieve this by striping back visual...
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Between Fact and Fiction: the power of mythology From Sea to Shining Sea is an imaginary landscape pictured delicately on a huge semi-transparent curtain swathed with polka-dots. The curtain was specially made for the Round Room at the Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh) and, drawn directly onto the curtain, the images suggest another time,...
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