echoes
solo exhibition
20th August - 26th September 2021
the briggait -wasp studios
glasgow
curated by fraser taylor
Echoes of wanderings
These paintings were produced in lockdown 2021 when access to most landscape was restricted. The paintings attempt to be visual reminders of particular memories, after-images or echoes of wanderings through landscapes.
Like memories the subjects of these paintings are sketchy, echoes of an image, parts of images, in and out of focus, incomplete, scale and perspective are repeatedly changing, blurring the edges, not entirely accurate and with few details.
Using a freshly created painting, I sought to create echo elements, hidden landscapes of that first image in subsequent stolen fragments that are a ghost of the original, now overworked or destroyed. Each echo print has a familial relationship with the original more gestural painting.
Reminiscences (Belaclare, Co Mayo) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Exhibition at The Briggait Wasps Studios Glasgow- Curated by Fraser Taylor
Hidden Boundaries (Belaclare, Co Mayo) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Detail-Hidden Boundaries (Belaclare, Co Mayo) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Winter Traces (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Detail- Winter Traces (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Cold Haze (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Detail - Cold Haze (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
what appears to be happening in your paintings is a kind of re-working and doubling or even tripling, of a set of familiar habitual marks. each primary painting is its own universe with secondary counterpart or mirror of the first world. i enjoy this aspect of your vision because it seems to hint at the way we all might experience the wider world- a primary layer that is the stuff of our everyday and then a secondary layer of reality that is harder to read or see but is nonetheless felt by our subconscious and out guts. the visible world and its shadow
Sam Windett artist
Echoes of Wanderings (West Highland Way) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Detail - Echoes of Wanderings (West Highland Way) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Belaclare echo (Co Mayo) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Detail - Belaclare echo (Co Mayo) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Holloway Ghost (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm)
Ghosts of early dawn (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm)
Detail - Ghosts of early dawn (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm)
West Gallery Exhibition at The Briggait Wasps Studios Glasgow- Curated by Fraser Taylor
Biting wind (Belaclare, Co Mayo) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Detail - Biting wind (Belaclare, Co Mayo) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm) SOLD
Silvery Mist (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm)
Detail - Silvery Mist (Clairmont Gardens) oil on board, cold wax + paper ( 480 x 255mm)
massive congratulations on the echoes exhibition
your work is exquisite and that quiet interplay between the painting and the equally important traces/ remainders just works so well.
Graham Lister
‘Adam Nicolson has written of the 'powerful absence[s]' that remembered landscapes exert upon us, but they exist as powerful presences too, with which we maintain deep and abiding attachments. These, perhaps, are the landscapes in which we live the longest, warped though they are by time and abraded though they are by distance’
With thanks to : Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot