'Letters from Glasgow' Publication
An artist’s book of artwork and words telling some of the stories that make up the city of Glasgow. It contains work from across a year of art-making. Drawings, prints, conversations and paintings all form letter-like introductions to these different faces and spaces. Making portraits and city scenes, watercolour studies of faces and clusters of people all are ways I have sought to document the things around me here in Glasgow.
Paintings have become a way to linger with a story, listen and stop. I hope that the portraits and figurative pieces might prompt people to look again at that which they might already know, but are encouraged to pause with and observe more deeply. I hope that they tell some of the story of a face, a person, and be - in someways - an introduction to the life of another.
In these gatherings of faces and clusters of figures, I want to prompt questions about community and encourage us to think about how we coexist with others in a space. Different narratives surround us all of the time; I hope my paintings can introduce you to the lives of the people and places that surround me, in the hopes that it might spark your curiosity in the stories that surround you, wherever you are.
A5, softcover book.
An artist’s book of artwork and words telling some of the stories that make up the city of Glasgow. It contains work from across a year of art-making. Drawings, prints, conversations and paintings all form letter-like introductions to these different faces and spaces. Making portraits and city scenes, watercolour studies of faces and clusters of people all are ways I have sought to document the things around me here in Glasgow.
Paintings have become a way to linger with a story, listen and stop. I hope that the portraits and figurative pieces might prompt people to look again at that which they might already know, but are encouraged to pause with and observe more deeply. I hope that they tell some of the story of a face, a person, and be - in someways - an introduction to the life of another.
In these gatherings of faces and clusters of figures, I want to prompt questions about community and encourage us to think about how we coexist with others in a space. Different narratives surround us all of the time; I hope my paintings can introduce you to the lives of the people and places that surround me, in the hopes that it might spark your curiosity in the stories that surround you, wherever you are.
A5, softcover book.
An artist’s book of artwork and words telling some of the stories that make up the city of Glasgow. It contains work from across a year of art-making. Drawings, prints, conversations and paintings all form letter-like introductions to these different faces and spaces. Making portraits and city scenes, watercolour studies of faces and clusters of people all are ways I have sought to document the things around me here in Glasgow.
Paintings have become a way to linger with a story, listen and stop. I hope that the portraits and figurative pieces might prompt people to look again at that which they might already know, but are encouraged to pause with and observe more deeply. I hope that they tell some of the story of a face, a person, and be - in someways - an introduction to the life of another.
In these gatherings of faces and clusters of figures, I want to prompt questions about community and encourage us to think about how we coexist with others in a space. Different narratives surround us all of the time; I hope my paintings can introduce you to the lives of the people and places that surround me, in the hopes that it might spark your curiosity in the stories that surround you, wherever you are.
A5, softcover book.