Life’s complicated and how we interact with one another can be complicated too. I represent the figure in my paintings with all it’s complexity either in how it relates to another figure in the painting or how it relates to an under painting.

In my mind we and the objects with which we share our space exist on several planes. I enjoy layering these planes, removing and highlighting aspects of each plane in an attempt to create a story.
Perhaps my story might be different from a story you may conjure by looking at how I've arranged these planes and their negative and positive space. That's fine. The point is that the painting conjures imagination.

Exhibitions

Aberdeen Enterprise Trust Fayre, Aberdeen Music Hall, Aberdeen UK, November 1993

Aberdeen Artist Society Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen UK, May 1994

Deeside Art Exhibition, Banchory Scotland UK, July 1994

Glassell Student Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, June 2009

Lawndale Center, The Big Show, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, July 2010

Art League Houston, Gambol, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, November 2010

Glassell Student Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, June 2011

Salon des Refuses, Gallery M Squared, Houston TX USA, July 2011

Archway Gallery, 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston TX USA, July/August 2011

Second Annual SAO Select Exhibition, Tradition Bank, Houston Tx, September 2011

Visual Arts Alliance, Twenty-Ninth Juried Open Exhibition, Houston TX, May/June 2012

The Glassell School of Art, 2012 Annual Student Exhibition, Houston TX, June/July 2012

Awards

Glassell School of Art, Materials Scholarship 2010

Glassell School of Art, The Ary Stillman Scholarship 2012

Saturday, August 18, 2012




"Don't Go", concept images, 48" x 60", proposed acrylic on canvas with digital projection

It's a matter of choice. The more opaque figure lightly touches is first love as he looks toward and imagines another life on board another. He wants neither to leave as he contemplates this choice. The under painting will be the landscape/ beach and the male figure(  the subject and context of the story) painted using acrylic. A Gel medium layer will be built up over the sea to increase the light reflection when the digital projection is applied. The landscape above the horizon/the boat ( silhouette)/the female figure (silhouette)/the beach and the male figure will have an under layer(s) of mat medium to flatten the light. The projection will be the piece as it appears above. The boat and the female figure as objects of choice will be reduced to 60% opacity while the male figure ( subject) and landscape ( context) are at full opacity further solidified by the under painting. The male figure is the only aspect of the piece that is not affected by level 8 posterization.
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  1. scott davidsonOctober 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM

    I went to a contemporary art fair in Shanghai recently, which was a real eye-opener. Chinese contemporary art has come leaps and bounds from the watery Zen landscapes to huge canvases of strange-looking beings. The prices being asked and paid were huge too.
    Oriental, if not Chinese, my print of Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting, http://en.wahooart.com/A55A04/w.nsf/OPRA/BRUE-8BWS6R, bought some time ago from wahooart.com, is as lovely as ever.

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