RSW Preview

I was delighted to be able to go along to the RSW opening last night, and see my Summer Clouds, Eastbourne Pier painting in all its glory in one of the main rooms at the Royal Scottish Academy.

Here it is along with (l-r at bottom) David Smith, Joe Hargan and Glen Scouller's paintings.

It's always odd to come into a public place and see the paintings that you've made privately in your studio.  You know exactly how they're made and put together, so they have no secrets from you...and then to see them all framed up and looking great, and on the wall in a fine, grand institution...it's very strange.

Also, I normally only see my paintings at fairly close quarters in the studio. Bizarrely, I found last night that, when you can stand so far back from your work, and it's properly lit, it looks completely different.  Colours blend, contrasts and patterns are more obvious.  

When your own work is chosen to be hung in a gallery, having been endorsed by a committee, and curated with other work, it suddenly becomes transformed into something else - something you can view objectively rather than subjectively.

Having whoffled about my own modest contribution, can I just add that the RSW show is fantastic - lots of great paintings, well hung, beautifully lit,  in a wonderful space.  

You couldn't ask for more on a dreich January day.  So if you're in Edinburgh, please do go and see it.

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Well, well!

It turns out that it isn't my small painting that I've got in to the RSW - it's my large one!

Summer Clouds, Eastbourne Pier (Mixed Media, 22 x 30)

This painting is part of a series of studies and paintings that I made of the pier, produced by means of a screenprint (the red part) with washes of watercolour and gouache over the top, along with a little pastel.

I'll be going along to the opening tomorrow night to see it!

"Scotland's Foremost Watercolourists"

Here's my painting at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, described as an exhibition of 'Scotland's foremost watercolourists'.

(I'm in the centre, at the top.)

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It looks like I may have finally been successful with a submission to the annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours.

I've been notified of one rejection, but that implies that this one of Eastbourne Pier has been accepted.  Woo-hooh!

Fingers crossed!

Annual Submissions

Just getting work ready for the submissions to the annual big shows at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.

Here's one of this year's entries for the RSW (Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour).  

It's a large monoprint with watercolour and pastel, of Eastbourne Pier.

Judith I Bridgland, End of the Day, Eastbourne Pier (Monoprint with mixed media, 70cm x 100cm)

I don't exactly have the best success rate for acceptance into exhibitions, so I'll just have to keep plugging away and see how I get on this year...