At the Open Eye Gallery Robbie Bushe’s Dwell is mostly about houses inside and out. They are seen from a distance, have their walls cut away or their roofs taken off so that we can see all the complexity of life going inside them. There are churches, theatres and supermarkets too, but houses are the main thing. They are feely and vividly painted, but for all their freedom there is a mass of detail. Sometimes, though, Bushe moves in from his usual teeming panoramas to a close-up of an individual room, as he does in Claire’s Room (Glenburn), for instance, Avocado Bathroom (Glenburn) or John’s Visit (Rosemount), and he goes in even closer in to paint a single fireplace in Fireplace (Glenburn.) It doesn’t diminish his usual panoramic vision at all to say that in these close-up pictures you can see how well he paints.
Dwell. Scotsman Review
