Happy New Year and Happy New Studio!
Just a quick post to wish you all a very Happy New Year!
In my newly set up studio at Langstane Place, Aberdeen
I am especially grateful to those of you who have very kindly supported me by purshcasing my work this past year and in previous years too! Every single painting and print that you buy really does help me to continue to keep making new work, and for that I am extremely grateful! And, while I love what I do, it's not always easy to keep going, especially in this economic climate.
Pam helping me out (as she always does!) in the new studio
But very special thanks must be given to my truly wonderful, kind and ever-supportive partner Pam. Without her help in so many ways, without her great patience, kindness and generosity and her all-round gorgousness life would simply be so much harder indeed! I love you Pammy and want to say the biggest !!THANK YOU!! from the bottom of my heart for everything you have done and still do for me! You really are the best!!
There's plenty more to write about just now and I'll post a fuller update on my recent studio move and some upcoming solo shows very soon. But in the meantime, I wish you all a very Happy New Year and here's to a highly creative, productive, successful and – not least – fun-filled 2023!
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arTay 2022 – Part of Perth Festival Of The Arts
Where There Is Light, oil on wood panel – 78cm x 78cm (framed)
After 2 year's absence from the art show calendar, I really can't wait for arTay 2022, which opens at 10am in Perth this coming Thursday 19th May and runs until 7.30pm on Sunday 22nd.
Every May, and as if by magic, a large marquee appears next to Perth's Concert Hall and is filled to the brim with a great assortment of fantastic artworks.
Dubh Artach, oil on wood panel – 75x75cm (framed)
But all the real magic is what's on show inside the marquee!
With more than 70 artists taking part and a few hundred pictures to hang and label, it's a challenge to get it all done and looking great in just a few hours. It's not all hard work though and there's always a great atmosphere, with Hugh and his team making it all the more fun by providing lots of coffee and cakes to keep us all going until the show is hung. Remarkably – considering the often competative nature of a typical 'hang', and with so many artistic egos to be found in one relatively small compass – I have yet to witness a punch up!
Rattray Head, oil on canvas – 57cm x 57cm (framed)
As well as helping to hang the show on Wednesday, I'm also very much looking forward to catching up with lots of artist friends and maybe matching some new faces to familiar pictures and names too.
So these are the four paintings I'll have in the show. Three fairly large atmospheric lighthouse oils and my latest dreamscape (or 'longing') painting of Edinburgh, as seen at night from across the Firth of Forth.
[Contact Hugh at Frames Gallery, Perth for more details, or if you would like to reserve one of these paintings. Tel: 01738 631085]
Edinburgh Nocturne, oil on canvas – 95x95cm (framed)=
If you happen to be in or near Perth then do come along and see a huge variety of great work by some of the country's best artists. Along with many of the other artists, I'll be at the 'arTay Party' preview on Friday 20th from 6pm.
Hope to see some of you there too!
Frames Gallery
10 Victoria Street, Perth, Scotland, PH2 8LW
info@framesgallery.co.uk
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House Music, a new album by Tom Baird
House Music by Tom Baird
I'm delighted to have one of my pieces used as the cover art for a fantastic new album by Scottish musician Tom Baird.
Tom got in touch with me last November, having spotted some of my work in a Facebook post by Braemar Gallery. At that point he was just finishing off the recordings and was looking for something different for the cover that would help illustrate the overall feel of his collection of new songs.
He particularly liked my Little Cottage series and East Neuk pictures and thought one of them would make a good cover. The album's working title at this point was This Old Town, the name of one of the tunes, and he initially considered the East Neuk (Shooting Star) picture below for that.
East Neuk (Shooting Star)
But in the end it became House Music (Tom has a home recording studio and did all the work on the album there) and so it seemed a perfect fit to have one of my Little Cottage pictures to illustrate that. He felt Autumn Bothy By The Sea stood out because the yellow roof against the blue sky was particularly striking and, I have to say, I'm delighted with the final result!
House Music album back
The album has 12 great songs, all brilliantly written, performed and produced by Tom. It won't be out until 10th June, but he kindly gave me a few copies and I've had it on repeat since getting it. I've been very impressed by the diversity and quality of all the album tracks, but my current favourite is the new single Peace Pipe. It's short and snappy and a real belter of a tune, with a few surprising twists and turns in the music and also the philosophical (with a large dose of irony!) lyrics too. Several of Tom's songs have been played regularly by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music and on Radio Scotland and you can hear Peace Pipe and lots of his other excellent releases right now on Spotify.
I always fancied doing a book or an album cover so what an absolute privilege to have one of my pictures on the front of this great album by a very talanted songwriter!
Find out more about Tom and have a listen to his great music yourself by clicking the links below:
Tom Baird Bandcamp
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