One of My Paintings Coming Up For Auction

It's always interesting to see some of my paintings which I sold years ago popping up again, so it was nice to find out that there's one for sale in a local auction next month.

Coming up for sale as Lot 1643 is "Headland at the Giant's Causeway", a little acrylic painting of Northern Ireland which I last saw 10 years ago. 

View the lot on the McTears website.

Headland at the Giant's Causeway (Acrylic on paper, 5 x 7)  

The scene is of the bay as you walk down the path from the Visitor's Centre towards the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.  

I go there every year, and here's a recent photo I took of the same scene.  Only the foreground has changed!  The painting was sold at Macmillan's Cancer Charity Exhibition in Glasgow back in 2003, and was at that time in a cream wooden frame. 

The auction is on Sunday 13th January 2013 at 2pm, so if any of you are interested in bidding then you can leave a bid or due it live and interactively online, which is quite exciting - DETAILS HERE..  (Just remember there's commission plus VAT to pay on the hammer price.)  

If there's anything you'd like to ask me about the painting, then please do get in touch.

At the Scottish Contemporary Art Auction preview

I took the opportunity today to drop into McTears in Glasgow to have a look at my Life Study which is coming up for sale in the auction tomorrow.  I couldn't remember what sort of a frame it was in, and I thought it would be good to see it again.  

Despite being 21 years old, it still looks fresh as a daisy!  Here it is...

 

As you can see, it's in a plain wood (obeche) frame with a gold slip and a plain double mount. The moulding of the frame is about 4" wide, and the outer measurement of the frame is about 32" wide by 42" high.

It's a good big picture, so it will be very interesting to see how much it sells for tomorrow night.  It's not often you see my work in an auction, so there's usually quite a bit of interest - but I'm sure someone's going to get themselves a bargain!

Scottish Contemporary Art Auction - one of my drawings up for sale

One of my life studies is coming up for sale in a Glasgow auction shortly.  

It's Lot 301 in the McTears Scottish Contemporary Art Auction on Tuesday 21 February.

It's of a model called Lynn and was done at Glasgow School of Art quite a long time ago now, so it's really strange to see it again after all these years!  It's funny that it still looks like something very familiar.

It's a big piece, and is described in the catalogue as 'ink on paper' - in fact, it's painted in Payne's Grey gouache and Indian Red watercolour on a cream coloured paper.  (Indian Red's a really useful colour for life drawing, I'm very fond of it.)

It was originally sold through Art Exposure Gallery in Glasgow in 1991, and has now come up on the secondary market.

It was the first life study I ever sold - in fact, I've sold very few, so it's a rare piece.

You can take a look at it in the catalogue here on the  McTears website .  

It's quite exciting because you can listen live to the auction as it happens on your computer, and even join in the bidding.  (Fortunately, I'll be out at Art School, so I won't be able to follow it live myself and get tempted to bid...!!)