"Crackling with Colour" at Crieff

Here's a few photos of the show at the Strathearn Gallery in Crieff.

I'm sure you'll agree that the paintings and ceramics all go wonderfully  well together - all three artists were delighted when we saw the exhibition all hung!

Anne's 'Reliquary for Ellen' can be seen on the plinth below my painting "Rosebay Willowheb at Camusdarach".  Anne's sculpture is all about her family history, and has small photos of her relatives, reproductions of letters and found objects.

Here's Anne at the preview, with some more of her ceramics, showing the raku-fired 'crackle glaze' which gives the name to the show.  As part of the process of the firing, the glaze cracks, allowing smoke to get in to the cracks, causing the patterns on the surface of the pot.

This is my large Morecambe Bay piece "Sweep of the Bay", where the lovely greys and pinks are cleverly picked out by two pieces by Anne positioned below it.

 

Anne's crackle-glaze pots also work well with Emma's painting (seen on the right), and the lacework included in the painting is also echoed in Anne's little found-object sculpture 'Love Potion'.

Her Harvest Moon piece also echoes the subject matter and foreground plant forms in my painting, above left.

Previews North and South!

Amazingly, tomorrow I have TWO shows opening in two completely different places at the same time!

In Crieff I have "Crackling with Colour" opening at the Strathearn Gallery, with ceramics by Anne Morrison and mixed media work by Emma Davis. (The reason for the name is to give a sense of the mixture of colourful paintings and the crackle-glaze of the ceramics).

Rest and Be Thankful (Oil on linen, 32 x 32)

Meanwhile, in Long Melford in Suffolk, I have "Colour" opening at the Lime Tree Gallery, with paintings by fellow Scots Pam Carter, Peter King and Joe Hargan.  Again, the title reflects the vibrant love of colour that Sottish art is so well known for.

Pink Grasses in Sunlight, the Campsies (Oil on linen, 12 x 12)

Please feel free to come along to either of the all-day previews.  And see you in Crieff if you're in Perthshire!