Creating Images

Creating Images

‘Creating Images’ is one of my courses i teach on the short course programme at the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh. It is a course designed for anyone who wants to develop a coherant and personal series of image based ideas for...
The SKETCH Open Drawing Prize

The SKETCH Open Drawing Prize

My 2016 sketchbook was shortlisted for the SKETCH Open Drawing Prize.  My sketchbook along with all other short listed entries were exhibited at the following venues during 2017; 21 May – 17 June 2017 Rabley Drawing Centre Rabley Barn Marlborough, SN8 2LW 22 July – 3...
Last 3 Days of Exhibition

Last 3 Days of Exhibition

‘Invasions and Excavations’ at the Open Eye Gallery ends on 6 May 2017. I am immensely proud of this body of work and I have been delighted with the responses and feedback so far. I want to thank all those who have visited the show, sent messages, tweeted and...
Invasions and Excavations – The Scotsman

Invasions and Excavations – The Scotsman

Robbie Bushe, who was named last year as the winner of the inaugural W Gordon Smith Award, is a near-contemporary of Wisniewski, and the paintings in his first exhibition at the Open Eye would sit well with the Vigorous Imagination artists. His blend of the surreal,...
Palette Cleaners

Palette Cleaners

These seven small work form part of 'Invasions and Excavations’ a solo exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery from 21 April – 6 May 2017. Making very small paintings is not as straightforward as one might imagine. I used to call them ‘palette cleaners’ as I tried to make...
Battle for the Library Table

Battle for the Library Table

‘Battle for the Library Table’, oil on panel, 2017, 60cm x 76cm ‘Battle for the Library Table’ forms part of ‘Invasions and Excavations’ a solo exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery from 21 April – 6 May 20 Table tops with a real or imagined...