Exhibition

My next exhibition:

Perthshire Open Studios

 

Over 220 artists will be displaying their work in 138 venues all over Perthshire. Our studio guide is available in many public and artsy places - pick one up and start exploring. The guide is also available online:

 

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Painting: Oil

This painting is part of a series that I have created for the Perthshire Open Studios event in September this year. I had needed a picture for my new kitchen in Kettins - it is site specific so it shows food and kitchen paraphernalia. After finishing it I found I had an appetite (excuse the pun) for more foody images. So I did a few more.

Aubergines on Platter

oil on canvasboard. 2014

46 x 61cm

Design: utensil container

Arguably a silly photo angle, but it appealed to me all those years ago when I painted my first piece of furniture in Canada (I had done similar work before as a teenager, but only in single-colour). There is still a lot of neutral grey in my colour scheme, this changed within a very short time. I also realised that using artists' paint for the backround is quite a waste of prime material - I started brushing on good emulsion paint instead.

Plywood, acrylic primer, paint, varnish. 1996

28x20x28cm, 41x21x28cm

Design: painted chair

A Canadian client of mine, an interior decorator in Vancouver, British Columbia, had a comfortable wooden office chair which she thought needed livening up. She told me that she had been a puppeteer for a while, so I painted the chair with a pair of figures from Punch and Judy plays.

Here is a close up of the Punch and Judy chair seat,
and beneath you can see the original unfinished chair.

Punch and Judy chair. 2000

Acrylic paint, acrylic varnish on wood.