Unseen. An exhibition review on Shetland News. 3 May 2011.
Facing the sea, (Shetland) review - Peter Davis
Facing the sea (Shetland) review - Jane Matthews
Boundary Gallery press release (PDF format)
This page will feature occasional news on what I am currently working on, upcoming exhibitions, and links to reviews.
My new exhibition at Vaila Fine Art in Lerwick. As the exhibition press release says "The show represents only a modest and potentially more commercially accessible sample of pictures by this very prolific artist and teacher, engaged as much in private pursuit of public expression as in current affairs. The oils on show are of domestic dimensions".
Exhibition review by Peter Davis in Shetland News.
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March to 24 April 2010. Facing The Sea exhibition at
the Boundary Gallery, London.
Some of my pictures at this exhibition can be seen on
my New
Exhibits page.
"I have lived in Shetland for thirteen years and the unique light of the northern hemisphere helps to shape the colours that live at the center of my art. " See full exhibition text.
25/2/10. I've just put up a Facebook page
for some of my art. It features works in progress, digital art on an
iPod touch, musings and chat. Local wildlife guide and photographer
Hugh Harrop took me to see some Bean Geese, his pictures and my digital
drawings can be seen at his
blog
Solo show, 21 March - 20 April 2009
This exhibition will be mostly Shetland inspired works; boldly coloured narrative pictures hung next to elemental painterly sea / sky / landscapes.
Review of this show by Peter Davis from the Shetland Times.
Review of my Spring 2009 museum exhibition by Jane Matthews which appeared on Shetland News website.
I have been moved to produce a series of images in response to proposals for a very large wind farm in Shetland. These images are not meant to be literal rendition of the Viking Energy project but depicts the effects of living in the shadow of 150 giant wind turbines and their affect on the human psyche. What should ostensibly be a traditional Shetland crofting scene has become a nightmare scenario where animals and birds are being displaced and humans are gradually being driven mad.
Migration. Acrylic on canvas. 2008. 120 x 150 cm
See the wind farm series here.
20 September 2007
"Without leaving the country, you can’t get much further from the Black Country, literally or metaphorically, than the Shetland Islands, but that’s exactly where Pensnett-born artist Paul Bloomer took himself a few years ago, and despite, or maybe because of his remoteness, his career has blossomed.
There can’t be many Black Country folk living that far north, a hundred
miles off the furthest coast of Scotland, and there aren’t many artists
creating the kind of work Paul does. So with his work now being sold through
a London Gallery, we at the Bugle thought it would be interesting to ask
this artistic ex-pat to share with us his thoughts on his remote location,
and his unique creations. Paul, a Bugle reader from way back, was happy to
oblige When he left Pensnett. Read rest of Black
Country Bugle Article here.
(article by Gavin Jones, © Black Country Bugle,
2007)
Web site design and coding from Kevin Learmonth at Business Support Solutions (UK) Limited
Jim Moncrief for allowing me to name a picture after his poem The Sea Like Scissors.
Most of the works in the New Exhibits section were photographed by Bill Fox, www.billyfoxphotography.com. Through time the other images he has photographed for me will be added to this site.
Thanks to Matthew Lawrence for the use of the photograph of me painting at Spiggie Beach.
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