Particles collide w/ mist on the North East shore.
Cyanotype Prints
6 Mar
Created in a darkroom environment in a wine cellar, these images were blazed onto the wood when the photo emulsion coating reacted to the UV light beam.
Grangemouth
2 Jan
A landscape that shows Grangemouth consumed by the wilderness in a future when Scotland no longer relies on fossil fuels. My new body of work explores abandonment, in the same way that ancient Mayan settlements were eventually reclaimed by the rainforest, and the deindustrialisation that caused Detroit’s urban decay, only in a Northern setting.
Stockfest ’13
12 Sep
Hey peeps, its Stockfest next week, and we have an exhibition at an award winning contemporary architect’s studio in Stockbridge.
10 Deanhaugh Street,
Edinburgh, EH4 1LY.
http://www.davidblaikiearchitects.com/
exhibition extended until 22/3/2014
Sea Blaze
9 Jul
Once in a while you get to spectate blazing sunsets along the Berwickshire coast. Pink sky at night… I find the best ones are those looking up the rocky shoreline towards Eyemouth. The district is steeped in folklore and legend. Grey seal colonies provide the strange soundtrack at dusk. These quick, colourful, creations are the antidote to the geometric Townscapes I create at the Garret.
Riddle’s Court Nocturne
18 Apr
by JW Steel
“The Goodliest House” in Edinburgh’s Old Town has a wonderful, colourful history, although its original owner, Baillie John McMorran, met an untimely death when he was shot dead by 15 year old William Sinclair in a riot.
The gentleman’s mansion originally came w gardens whose footprint encompassed the area we now know as Victoria Street and Terrace.
Hidden behind the irregular and characterful facade, the rooms flow magnificently, revealing rare and beautiful features. The green dining room’s ceiling, as well as telling the building’s narrative, depicts many leaves, plants, and flowers. A Patrick Geddes quote solves the mystery “This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Wheras the world is a vast leaf colony… and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”
Riddle’s Court is a unique building, it’s survival remarkable. Today it stands at a crossroads – the SHBT have taken a long lease to try and secure it’s future.
Riddle’s Court
322 Lawnmarket
Edinburgh EH1 2PQ
Opening Times : Thursdays, 2-4pm
Free admission.
SHBT http://www.shbt.org.uk//index.php?cID=151
Print available to buy in the Geddes Room.
40% will be donated to the SHBT’s fundraising
