tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177914425040360852024-02-19T04:55:00.499+00:00Art in HealthcareArt in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-68474857467009867552017-02-09T14:39:00.002+00:002017-02-09T16:24:27.157+00:00Internship Experience at Art in Healthcare<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to Alice Coulson for guest blogging about her experiences of working with Art in Healthcare as an intern from the University of Edinburgh.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i>Alice cleaning and restoring work from the Art in Healthcare collection</i></span></div>
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of my role as an intern is to check and update information on artists from our
collection, involving research and communication with the artists to obtain up
to date information on their work or current practice, or both, which is then
presented on our website. This information also contributes to the labels we
produce to sit alongside the work of art when it is installed. As a student
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I have been
an intern at Art in Healthcare since October 2016. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The charity houses</span> a collection of
over 1,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6</span>00 works of art, which are made available for loan to healthcare
providers across Scotland. The collection includes different media – drawings,
oil paintings, watercolours, printmaking and mixed media – in various sizes.
All of these artworks feature in an online gallery, alongside information about
the work, as well as the artist’s life, career and achievements. The aim of Art
in Healthcare is to share this collection with medical environments across
Scotland to improve the healthcare experience of patients, staff and visitors;
<a href="http://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/gallery.php" target="_blank">the online collection</a> is usually the first point of call for anyone interested
in seeing or acquiring artwork from the collection.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It was
great to represent Art in Healthcare as a volunteer at Edinburgh Art Fair,
which ran over the weekend of the 18<sup>th</sup>-20<sup>th</sup> November at
Edinburgh Corn Exchange. As a charity we held a series of free artist talks and
demonstrations: Sara Beevers introduced the technique of monoprinting using
water based inks and body weight to print unique designs, Olivia Irvine
demonstrated egg tempera painting, Jenny Smith led participants through a series
of fun drawing exercises using objects from the natural world, while Ann Oram
demonstrated the techniques behind her beautiful creations of flowers and field
edges, to name a few! It was also really exciting to work alongside Leo du Feu
who led the children’s workshops, which attracted a lot of keen young artists
who made fantastic, colourful collages inspired by nature. The whole weekend
was a huge success and raised a lot of awareness for Art in Healthcare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">With the
new year, while still busy researching and producing information for our
collection, much of my time has also been spent in the store room. Here, I have
been restoring and cleaning works which need a little bit of ‘TLC’ and those
which are about to leave us to be installed into a healthcare facility, or have
just been returned. I look forward to my next few months at Art in Healthcare.</span></span></div>
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I
have been an intern at Art in Healthcare since October 2016. Art in
Healthcare houses a collection of over 1,500 works of art, which are
made available for loan to healthcare providers across Scotland. The
collection includes different media – drawings, oil paintings,
watercolours, printmaking and mixed media – in various sizes. All of
these artworks feature in an online gallery, alongside information about
the work, as well as the artist’s life, career and achievements. The
aim of Art in Healthcare is to share this collection with medical
environments across Scotland to improve the healthcare experience of
patients, staff and visitors; <a href="http://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/gallery.php">the online collection</a> is usually the first point of call for anyone interested in seeing or acquiring artwork from the collection.<br />
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So, the aim of my role as an intern is to check and update information
on artists from our collection, involving research and communication
with the artists to obtain up to date information on their work or
current practice, or both, which is then presented on our website. This
information also contributes to the labels we produce to sit alongside
the work of art when it is installed. As a student studying for my MSc
in History of art, theory and display, much of my writing has been
focused towards an academic audience, so it has been a great opportunity
and challenge to learn how to tailor this to appeal to a different
audience and for a completely different purpose.<br />
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It was great to represent Art in Healthcare as a volunteer at Edinburgh
Art Fair, which ran over the weekend of the 18th-20th November at
Edinburgh Corn Exchange. As a charity we held a series of free artist
talks and demonstrations: Sara Beevers introduced the technique of
monoprinting using water based inks and body weight to print unique
designs, Olivia Irvine demonstrated egg tempera painting, Jenny Smith
led participants through a series of fun drawing exercises using objects
from the natural world, while Ann Oram demonstrated the techniques
behind her beautiful creations of flowers and field edges, to name a
few! It was also really exciting to work alongside Leo du Feu who led
the children’s workshops, which attracted a lot of keen young artists
who made fantastic, colourful collages inspired by nature. The whole
weekend was a huge success and raised a lot of awareness for Art in
Healthcare.<br />
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With the new year, while still busy researching and producing
information for our collection, much of my time has also been spent in
the store room. Here, I have been restoring and cleaning works which
need a little bit of ‘TLC’ and those which are about to leave us to be
installed into a healthcare facility, or have just been returned. I look
forward to my next few months at Art in Healthcare.<br />
- See more at: http://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/blog.php?id=361#sthash.HwcRmBI7.dpuf</div>
Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-87714143146823541602016-05-03T15:47:00.000+01:002016-05-11T16:46:02.661+01:00Artists and Patients Transform Rohallion Psychiatric Ward<b>Vanessa Magnone</b> writes as an intern in Art in Healthcare and as an undergraduate student studying psychology and neuroscience:<br />
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Art in Healthcare is involved in a new and exciting project at the Rohallion Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit located in Perth, in which we are commissioning three artists to create original artwork for the hospital environment. Rohallion is an all male facility with patients from various parts of Scotland. This project will hopefully transform the environment into one which engages patients, staff and visitors mentally, while also providing a more domestic ambiance in the hospital. The human mind requires engaging stimulation constantly as it is essential for mental health. It was saddening to learn of the bare corridors and large communal areas that are home to the patients at Rohallion. When touring the Rohallion Psychiatric Hospital, I was impressed with the stunning woodwork in architecture throughout the unit, as well as the lovely outdoor spaces on the second floor. It is easy to recognise the potential at Rohallion which explains our enthusiasm for the project.<br />
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<b>Interesting Research:</b><br />
Incorporating visual artwork into the Rohallion Intensive Psychiatric Ward will not only enhance the domestic atmosphere, but potentially aid in the patient’s progression with internal thought processes. Some may be quite sceptical on how exactly placing artwork throughout the halls will help in the recovery of patients. The physical environment is the foundation to which recovery can take place. Research suggests that long-term reliance on a hospital style environment only erodes identity and physical and mental health. Furthermore, there are profound benefits in the processes of internal thought when cognitively engaging in artwork, (thus looking and thinking about the artwork). Researchers in the field of neuroscience and radiology at the University Hospital Erlangen in Germany conducted a study with fMRI brain imaging, as they were curious about the neurological effects of art on the human brain. They interestingly found that art evaluation improves the functional connectivity in the brain pathways of the Default Mode Network (DMN). The findings were increasingly more significant when participants actually performed an artistic activity rather than simply looking and thinking about an artwork. The DMN is a network in the brain related to internal thought processes such as introspection, reflection, daydreaming, comprehension of emotional states, and retrieval of memories. One should not underestimate the significance of art evaluation, that being simply looking and thinking about an artwork. It is amazing that many do recognise the benefits mentally ill patients, as well as staff and visitors, can gain from having artwork in their environment. (Bolwerk et al, 2014)<br />
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<b>Focus Group Success:</b><br />
We have had two focus group sessions thus far. Art in Healthcare and the artists involved in the project recognised the importance of involving the Rohallion patients in key decision making about the interior of the ward, as it is their home. The artists were passionate to gain personal input from patients that could further inspire their creation. The focus group allowed for patients and artists to interact and connect while sharing ideas about the direction of the project.<br />
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<b>First Focus Group</b><br />
Seven Rohallion patients voluntarily participated in the focus group which was perfect for the small intimate setting we were hoping for and provided a comfortable environment for all of us to openly share. The focus group was structured with set activities, but allowed for open discussion on various topics. Patients shared their past experiences with art, discussing material preferences and subject matter interests with the artists. We couldn’t help but to first break the ice with a quick discussion on Donald Trump, which quickly got us all comfortable with each other. Artists showed their previous work to patients in a presentation, which patients and staff really enjoyed. The true success was the final art activity, “Feelings and Colour”. Patients, artists and Art in Healthcare staff joined together to participate. We passed out blank squares of paper, each having a theme written on it. Some of the themes were entitled “love”, “hope”, “hometown”, “favourite food”, “dreams”, “unhappy/annoyed”. We each filled in the blank squares with colours we personally associated with the different themes, for example, “bright red” for “unhappy/annoyed”. This creative art activity was very expressive and personalised to each patient. The nature of the art activity allowed the artists and patients to create and reflect on an equal level of skill. One patient who was quite reluctant in discussion in the beginning of the focus group was able to open up fully while engaging in this art activity with the group. He began analysing the characteristics of certain themes and further discussed his inner feelings. It showed a sense of deep thought and full engagement. It was very pleasing to see the social and therapeutic benefits artistic expression had on patients and artists. Artists found the art activity helpful as they took note of the different colours and shades used by patients, potentially inspiring their future works to be placed throughout the ward. My favourite part of the focus group, apart from engaging so close with the patients, was analysing the different colours and shades chosen for the theme of “dreams”. This category was very peculiar and quite psychological, almost asking which colours one associated with their mind. It was very fulfilling to see distinctive differences, and also patterns in shades and colours patients in the ward associated with their dreams.<br />
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<b>Second Focus Group</b><br />
I was excited to see familiar faces at the second focus group, as 4 patients from the previous focus group were present, along with the three artists. The remaining patients unfortunately could not make it because of other commitments. Art in Healthcare brought in two paintings from the collection to discuss with the patients and artists. Patients were vocal about their personal opinions for each painting. Talking about aspects of the paintings they liked, didn’t like, or what they would have done differently led to a captivating discussion. This art activity allowed patients to learn techniques in art evaluation that will help them connect to artwork in the future. We then allowed the patients to produce a quick sketch which could be anything from a landscape to an abstract form. Robert Macmillan, one of the artists, shared with the group his distinguished approach in creating landscape paintings, which we then all attempted. I took a lot from this experience, as did the patients. The work produced by patients was extremely expressive and reflected their talent, which was quite fascinating.<br />
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<b>Sketches by patients using pastels</b><br />
Overall, the focus group sessions were successful as everyone interacted well and took something meaningful out of the experience. I do hope the focus groups further encourage the unit to create more art based groups for patients at Rohallion, as it seems to be limited. Art in Healthcare is very much looking forward to seeing the finished products of artwork that will be produced for the ward in June.<br />
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<b>Reference:</b><br />
Bolwerk A, Mack-Andrick J, Lang FR, Dörfler A, Maihöfner C (2014) How Art Changes Your Brain: Differential Effects of Visual Art Production and Cognitive Art Evaluation on Functional Brain Connectivity.Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-1722397387114759082016-03-24T15:16:00.000+00:002016-07-11T14:46:56.613+01:00Developing a social prescribing service at Art in Healthcare based on an Occupational Therapy model Part 3<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 24th March 2016</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following on from the fourth and final art workshop of our social prescribing service for referred patients of Baronscourt Surgery, we held a Celebration Event last week, at the Surgery, with patient's artworks newly framed and hung. The event was indisputably a happy one, full of chatter, cooing at artworks and laughter with patients, GPs, Art in Healthcare staff and volunteers amongst others. The surgery, which was closed to the public for the afternoon for staff training, took on the feel of a public gallery opening, an entirely different atmosphere to the hours when open as a GP surgery. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmAkd6M_uaWh4rH21jsyMcPlIQEeBVuCd3Nq3CnDPMxaQK1KbDAYq0WJ7Vuz2usHoOGIIGDadA-YDh_03dRU46p0XDxqpPuqrhx7kqaf9vFeZRGVih7Mwn6iZHYfHNy6LwcNj2ekVrA/s1600/b3-001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmAkd6M_uaWh4rH21jsyMcPlIQEeBVuCd3Nq3CnDPMxaQK1KbDAYq0WJ7Vuz2usHoOGIIGDadA-YDh_03dRU46p0XDxqpPuqrhx7kqaf9vFeZRGVih7Mwn6iZHYfHNy6LwcNj2ekVrA/s200/b3-001.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four of five participants attended the event with the fifth reluctantly unwell. All seemed proud to see their artwork hung on the walls and were pleased to pose for photographs beside their work. One lady brought along cakes for the event, consistent with having voluntarily brought along biscuits and milk to each of the four workshops. She also brought flowers for myself as the project coordinator and a card for the artist, which felt a sign that she had got significant value from the
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUWgiM-oubdf24G2irS3LDdeszbyrVpWBMNp6KxIB_T8nqCi1fSkmYXZtwWrEdR92kjN3n7JCy1cJi4EFb8obaen0zGwTJYcLc9GcHzkJ4enki5cGm7VhSwBwNOR-YYrNFkApz99lYPg/s1600/b2-001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUWgiM-oubdf24G2irS3LDdeszbyrVpWBMNp6KxIB_T8nqCi1fSkmYXZtwWrEdR92kjN3n7JCy1cJi4EFb8obaen0zGwTJYcLc9GcHzkJ4enki5cGm7VhSwBwNOR-YYrNFkApz99lYPg/s200/b2-001.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The GPs attending the event, over and above our GP partner in the project, seemed considerably impressed with both the finished artworks now hanging the walls of their workplace as with the purpose of the project and questions were asked universally about 'what happens next?'. On a short term basis, while the workshops have finished, we can be assured that the patients have formed friendships throughout the project that already sees them making plans to get together for coffees and art meetups. On a longer term basis, I am working on a substantial report that will draw together the key learning from this project and serve to inform future planning for similar projects, as for contributing to funding applications that may support further art projects at Baronscourt Surgery and beyond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I am partway through my Occupational Therapy 1:1 evaluations with the patients that aim to gather key feedback on both their participation in the project and regarding the goals we set together at the outset. These sessions are also a chance for us to discuss what happens now for patients with regards to art and how they might build art and creativity into their lives on a longer term basis as a contribution to their health and wellbeing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's become resoundingly clear is that this project has had significant social benefits for all participants, getting them out of their homes to integrate and form friendships with previously unknown people in their local community; patients have stepped out of their comfort zones to try a new activity and realized what they can actually achieve, raising their self-esteem in the process; and participants have all expressed themselves immeasurably through the creation of artworks, many of which now hang proudly on the walls of Baronscourt Surgery for every visitor and GP to see. Now that is what I call a successful prescription for someone with enduring mental health needs. </span><br />
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<b>Amelia Calvert </b>writes as the Outreach Manager of <a href="http://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Art in Healthcare</a> and as an Occupational Therapist.</div>
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Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-90607420113451353112016-02-17T15:02:00.002+00:002016-07-11T14:47:09.646+01:00Developing a social prescribing service at Art in Healthcare based on an Occupational Therapy model Part 2<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday 8th February 2016</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today we held the first art workshop for patients referred from Baronscourt Surgery as part of our pilot social prescribing service based on an Occupational Therapy model. I met patients at the Surgery along with the artist, Leo du Feu, before we walked with them over to the venue at Piershill Community Flat (PCF). 6 out of 6 patients who were registered turned up, a 100% improvement on the first time we ran the workshops when, despite apparent interest from patients to get involved, no one actually showed up. We had to go back to the drawing board about what might have represented barriers to access for patients and decided people needed to understand more about what was involved and the 'why'. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is how we came to introduce the Occupational Therapy aspect of the project - an informal Art Assessment in which patients would hear more about the project and have the chance to set goals for themselves, hereby taking a clear responsibility for their own health and well-being progression. Unfortunately, one of the patients didn't follow through and actually attend the workshop at the last minute but, she had at least set out to attend it, which was a massive step in itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ten minute walk was surprisingly helpful as an extra part of the process, giving patients and artist the chance to informally meet each other and chat, out of the context of the Surgery and before the context of sitting together in the 'art room'. Inevitably there was an air of anticipation amidst all patients and I could sense distinct social nerves that no one knew each other. However, the walk played a clear part in reducing these nerves and people seemed in a more relaxed frame of mind by the time they arrived than when we'd met at the surgery. Sunshine on the walk helped too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I left patients at PCF in the capable hands of Leo with whom I had discussed previously the key goals and points to note regarding each patient. This meant that both artist and patient were more prepared than either party ever had been for our workshops and I sense this made a significant difference. Leo reported afterwards that the workshop had gone really well, that there had been a lot of conversation, a lot of creativity and a lot of interest in art in general. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are very grateful to our two lovely volunteers from Art in Healthcare, Beth Hadshar and Vessela Ivkova, who supported Leo in the workshop and greeted patients with big smiles when they first arrived at the PCF. With thanks also to Alistair McIntyre for hosting the workshop on behalf of the PCF and for providing essential teas and coffees to patients on their arrival!</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">Today I sat in a clinic room as an Occupational Therapist at Baronscourt Surgery seeing patients referred from the GP. Essentially I carried out OT Art Assessments with each patient, inviting them to get involved in a series of art workshops that aims to improve their wellbeing through, a) the social experience of a group, b) having the chance to express feelings and emotions through art as a means of non-verbal communicati</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 19.32px;">on and c) opportunities to improve their self-confidence and learn new skills.</span></div>
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I set goals with the patients about what they each might gain from the experience, ranging from, 'To leave each workshop with a smile' to 'Embrace range of creative opportunities as a long-term hobby potential', ie a range of social and creative goals.</div>
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This feels a big step along the way for Art in Healthcare in terms of mainstreaming art and the therapeutic qualities it holds through embracing the social prescribing model. It is also a big step for myself as an Occupational Therapist in terms of unifying the value I hold of creativity with my passion for supporting and giving care to others.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">I'm really looking forward to hearing how the workshops go next month with artist <a href="http://www.leodufeu.co.uk/" target="_blank">Leo du Feu</a> and to see what artworks the participants create for display at the surgery in the long term. Meanwhile, we are grateful to Baronscourt Surgery and particularly to Dr Thomson for enabling this opportunity.</span></div>
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<b>Amelia Calvert </b>writes as the Outreach Manager of <a href="http://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/" target="_blank">Art in Healthcare</a> and as an Occupational Therapist.</div>
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Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-59807090124092987612014-09-29T11:25:00.001+01:002014-09-30T20:04:26.906+01:00Artist Uncovered: David Michie OBE, RSA, FRSA<h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art in Healthcare included no less than three paintings by David Michie in their relatively small but perfectly formed 2014 Festival exhibition ‘The Healing Power of Art’, such is the enduring appeal of the renowned artist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first interviewed him two years ago Michie talked about his early years spent in a small village on the French Riviera with his artistic parents and two brothers, where the bright colours and ambient zest for life helped shape his love of nature and his outlook on the world and on life. He also showed me the dozens of sketchbooks where he recorded his observations, a lifetime of visual data.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of that first meeting he mentioned the influence that French cinema had on him as a young man but we had ran out of time so it is with keen anticipation that I revisit him to talk further about this and other sources of inspiration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He recalls how as a young art student in Edinburgh, he was encouraged by his tutors to go to the National Gallery of Scotland and look up the great masters to help him decide what theme would define his practice. Although he admired them, the young Michie struggled to engage personally with the grand social and political topics of the larger than life dramatic compositions by Rubens or Poussin. Instead he was much more drawn towards the recently released films from France and Italy shown at the independent Cameo cinema, a welcome and exciting change from the staple diet of American and British films that dominated all other screens in the late 1940s when television sets were still a rarity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He immersed himself in the neorealism of films like Marcel Carné’s <i>Les Enfants du Paradis </i>which he watched at least fifteen times or Marcel Pagnol’s Marseilles trilogy and other masterpieces by Roberto Rossellini or Vittorio de Sica. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These cinematographic encounters all contributed to Michie’s realisation that his interest lay, not in grand historical paintings but in the beauty of the everyday observed at first hand, the view from his window, the racing pigeons shown by miners at a local Pigeon Fancying fair, a bunch of flowers in a jug. He sums it up by quoting Paul Sérusier, an influential French painter of the turn of the twentieth century, who said “It is the role of the artist to see the significant in the ordinary.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not surprisingly he also felt much more drawn towards the hedonistic interiors of Pierre Bonnard and Raoul Dufy or Henri Matisse’s sensuous odalisks than towards the raw emotions exuding from the works of British artists of the latter half of the twentieth century whose penchant for pathos he sees as a throwback to Puritan times. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This preference for informal and organic compositions was further confirmed to him one significant summer day while walking around his friends John Houston’s and Elizabeth Blackadder’s garden when he was bowled over by nature’s riotous colours and proliferation that pushed back the man-made backdrop of geometric trellisses. This revelatory moment was all the more compelling because he had been engaged for some time in painting severe compositions. It was to influence his whole practice and inspire many plant portraits not out of interest in botany but as a lover of nature, in his own words, “rhyming shapes, rhyming colour”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This idea of capturing the moment brings us to the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Michie explains that the impromptu appearance of his photographs was in fact the result of hours spent at a particular spot waiting for that brief second, “anticipating that something was going to happen, much like a tiger ready to pounce” he adds. Cartier-Bresson was also a purist who would present a final image, probably one of many rejects, unadulterated and framed exactly as it had been shot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paradoxically there rests the connection between the two artists as Cartier-Bresson’s long drawn out creative process is in fact the reverse of Michie’s own painstaking method of painting that he describes as “a sum of corrections” based as it is on many marks, scraped and painted over time and time again until he has achieved the air of fortuitous and effortless spontaneity that typifies his style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another favourite filmmaker of his of that period is Jacques Tati. He particularly remembers <i>Jour de Fête</i>, the hilarious slapstick account of a postman’s tribulations set in a small French village. Its humour is due to Tati’s perfect timing and miming genius in the main role. Michie was particularly captivated by the beautifully observed tiny incidents that all add up to turn this very simple narrative into a work of art. His own power of observation and sense of humour come through in many of his paintings, such as the deliciously witty <i>In the Fitness Pool with Noodles</i> where he pokes gentle fun at aqua aerobics enthusiasts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michie’s paintings are always born as a response to what he sees around him and from observations captured in a few seconds in his sketchbooks. His latest project is the publication of a selection of these sketches. This book promises to be as entertaining as it will be revealing of his many sources of inspiration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art in Healthcare Festival Exhibition 2014 <a href="http://aihexhibition.blogspot.co.uk/">http://aihexhibition.blogspot.co.uk/</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art in Healthcare blog David Michie, November 2012 <a href="http://artinhealthcare-scotland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/artist-uncovered-david-michie-obe-rsa.html">http://artinhealthcare-scotland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/artist-uncovered-david-michie-obe-rsa.html</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Scottish Gallery </span><a href="http://www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/artist/david_michie" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/artist/david_michie</a></div>
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-43347858162130206742014-09-23T13:14:00.001+01:002014-09-23T13:19:18.743+01:00Art in Healthcare Artwork in SituBelow are some examples of our extensive, high quality and original artwork on display in various healthcare settings around the country. If you would like to find out more about displaying work from our Collection in your healthcare environment please contact Victoria on collectionmanager@artinhealthcare.org.uk<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installing art at Ninewells Medical School, Dundee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ninewells Medical School, Dundee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ninewells Medical School, Dundee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scanning the art label QR code to access much more information about the artwork</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scottish Epilepsy Centre, Govan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scottish Epilepsy Centre, Govan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site specific artwork, Royal Victoria Building Edinburgh</td></tr>
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-90826540778945049242014-08-27T13:53:00.000+01:002014-08-27T13:53:22.476+01:00Artist Uncovered: Gabrielle Reith<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is hard to imagine today but there was once a time when hospital
walls were kept resolutely bare for the sake of hygiene as paintings were considered
to be dust traps. Happily these days are long gone and it is now widely
recognised that images have a powerful and positive impact on the wellbeing of
all who frequent healthcare settings, the patients of course and also the
visitors and staff. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a primal level images connect directly with our subconscious
and we respond to them with our senses, our feelings and emotions, even more so,
research reveals, when they depict nature and the landscape. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gabrielle Reith’s paintings with their strong colours and
forms have the ability to convey a sense of place, real or imagined, and
to transport us somewhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her linear compositions transform terrain and houses into
elemental shapes verging on abstraction. The modernist square format she uses
here serves to intensify the sense of rhythm and tension within the canvas. The
artist focuses our mind on a particular feature or colour thus enhancing our
experience of the work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reith graduated from Gray’s School of Art in 1998 and the paintings in the Art in Healthcare Collection date from her degree show. She was brought up in
Aberdeenshire where she still lives today. Landscapes of great beauty have
influenced her all her life and have trained her eyes from an early age to
process seasonal changes and their colour variations. She has taken this
practice with her on her travels abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for Assisi</i> and <i>Study for a Tuscan
Summer</i> the heat of Italy is palpable in the ochre tainted stones and purple
shadows. The architectural details are abbreviated to curves and arches
like shorthand signs to evoke the romanesque style typical of that region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In sharp contrast, the two other paintings in the Art in Healthcare
Collection with their blue and green tones immerse the viewer in the coolness
of the Tuscan night. When the sun has ceased to beat down hard and recedes, giving
way to dusk and darkness, ambiguous shapes begin to emerge, assuming mass and volume
and an air of mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reith reinvents the landscape. She flattens it and then reintroduces
depth with patterns and texture. By breaking it down into distinctive shapes, motifs and dark outlines that delineate the blocks of colours, the artist creates a universal language of signs and symbols. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through this process, the landscape loses its
specificity, it escapes the confines of geographical coordinates and enters the
realm of the imagination. It becomes all our landscapes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the late 1990s, Gabrielle Reith has developed a successful practice as designer and maker of a varied range of products inspired by the natural world and her young family. With their strong lines and colours, her recent textiles, carved jewellery and paper designs represent the natural expansion of her painterly talent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh.</i></span></span></div>
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-45968877280882048082014-07-30T11:17:00.000+01:002014-07-30T11:17:01.770+01:00Artist Uncovered: Elspeth Lamb RSA<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The eight prints by Elspeth Lamb in the AiH Collection span three decades and altogether encapsulate the internationally renowned printmaker’s diverse repertoire of silkscreen, collage, lithograph, screenprinting and papermaking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The titles <i>March Hare</i>, <i>Miracle Fish</i> and <i>Milagro</i> give us an inkling of Lamb’s predilection for fairy tales and enchantment and this is indeed confirmed unmistakably by the allusion to <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i> in the cover image of her website and by the artist’s long blond hair that echoes the famous golden locks. Motifs from Lewis Carroll’s classic novel recur in Lamb’s iconography, not only the hare but also the ubiquitous ellipse, sometime egg, sometime mirror. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These references to Alice seem most appropriate when you consider that it is the privilege of artists to cross over two worlds, the mundane and the extraordinary and to take the viewers through the looking glass into the land of dreams. And as in Alice’s story, there is a certain frisson of danger in Lamb’s make-believe art with appellations like ‘chimera’, ‘<i>Les Fleurs du Mal</i>’ and ‘cantrip’, the Scots word for magical spell.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Printmaking is steeped in rituals and processes. But for printmakers, the exacting nature of their methods is not limiting but opens up an ever-increasing array of possibilities the more skilled they become.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elspeth Lamb is an expert in her art form which she taught for over twenty years at Edinburgh College of Art, latterly as Head of the Printmaking department. Then in 1999 she left college to embrace a freelance career, a momentous decision that allowed her to divide her time from then on between her own practice and teaching through workshops.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Travels had always been important to her work and she was now able to spend even more time abroad at the invitation of art institutions. Japan held a particular fascination for her and in 2000 she got the opportunity to immerse herself in its culture when she was selected for an international residency programme. She spent ten weeks in the village of Nagasawa and turned the tables on herself by becoming the pupil of master craftsmen to study <i>moku hanga</i>, a water-based method of woodblock printing that produces stunningly vivid and transparent colours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She returned to Japan two years later to learn traditional papermaking as part of her research for a book she had been commissioned to write which was subsequently published in 2006 under the title <i>Papermaking for Printmakers</i>. Lamb called upon a number of experts to work with her on this very detailed handbook and in her introduction she explains eloquently the seduction and rationale of papermaking that she describes as “a tactile revolt against the limitations of the flat, one-dimensional print”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Physically challenging and time consuming, it is also enormously rewarding because the artists can add to the pulp specially chosen elements that evoke places and emotions through touch and smell as well as visually. The end result is two artworks in one, the paper and the print which complement each other perfectly, layers upon layers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by her two visits to Japan, Lamb produced in 2006 an artist’s book <i>Nagasawa Cantrips</i>. In this limited edition of ten, the artist has conjured up the best of her skills to bring together traditional and modern printing methods, Western and Eastern thinking and her favourite themes. <i>March Hare</i> and <i>Miracle Fish</i> are two of a few prints that were produced separately and that can be enjoyed today by the patients, staff and visitors of the healthcare setting they enhance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For further information:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.lambbo.macmate.me/Site/Elspeth%20Lamb.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.lambbo.macmate.me/Site/Elspeth%20Lamb.html </span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/15252990">http://vimeo.com/15252990</a> </span><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/15252990" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.endeavor.or.jp/nap/index.html </span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Papermaking for Printmakers</i> by Elspeth Lamb, pub. A&C Black, London</span><br />
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-1115525891109403362014-07-22T11:34:00.000+01:002014-07-22T16:41:17.699+01:00Artist Uncovered: Duncan Pettigrew 1973-1993<h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Love your art"</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In many ways Duncan Pettigrew was a typical adolescent full of youthful enthusiasm and confidence. Art was his passion and although his most productive period only spanned a couple of years, he left behind enough works to fill up several gallery spaces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His numerous self-portraits show a young man looking straight at the viewer, not with arrogance but with the assurance that befitted the accomplished draughtsman that he was. The word ‘extraordinary’ comes to mind when describing the extent and range of his talent. John Brown who taught him in fifth and sixth year at Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh and himself a renowned artist was impressed by his technical ability at such a young age.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wealth of details in his works reveal to us his sharp observation skills and his delight in putting together carefully conceived and balanced compositions livened up with boldly contrasting light and dark tones for dramatic effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Duncan may have inherited his aptitude from his artistic parents but his competence was entirely his own and earned through fervent practice. He was constantly drawing and his sketchbooks show how he learnt about the way things connect and relate to one another: the front door to their house, the large cheese plant sprawling up the banister, the florid wallpaper in a holiday home abroad. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This fusion of eagerness and talent gave rise to the prodigious pace that defined his working process. His father recalls that in the time it took him to do half a drawing, Duncan would do four or five.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had been accepted by Glasgow School of Art when he was diagnosed with leukaemia. After his first stay in hospital, he surprised everyone by producing seven large self-portraits within a week, each one named after the day it was completed. This series of charcoal drawings shows his keen sense of humour as in <i>Sunday</i> where he drew himself wrapped up in toilet paper, the one thing that was close at hand and in abundant supply. His art became his way of thumbing his nose at his illness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While in hospital he received a visit from John Bellany who was a friend of his mother from art college. Bellany gave him a large compendium of Picasso’s works with the hand-written dedication “Love your Art”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Duncan spent the following year at Leith School of Art (LSA). In this nurturing environment and with renewed strength, he was able to enjoy this most creative time to the full and never wasted one moment. Typically the four studies in the <i>Sack Series</i> currently with Art in Healthcare were executed as a single studio assignment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LSA principal Philip Archer who taught him, remembers clearly not only his talent but also his strength of character and clarity of thinking beyond his years and of course his sense of humour. He recalls that Duncan worked hard and wanted to be pushed hard but at the same time that he did not take himself too seriously and held on to his achievements lightly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1994 Philip Archer and the Pettigrew family put together a show to celebrate Duncan’s artworks that filled the walls of LSA. A book entitled <i>Love your Art</i> accompanied the exhibition and helped raise money for the Leukaemia and Bone Marrow Transplant Fund at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Duncan’s talent and fortitude inspired all those who came across him and this extract from a poem by Dylan Thomas that Philip Archer appended to his foreword to <i>Love your art</i> is a particularly fitting tribute to this remarkable artist:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “Do not go gentle into that goodnight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks to Jennifer and Maurice Pettigrew and to Philip Archer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks to Soosan Danesh for photographing the self-portraits above<i>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Love your art</i> is available for borrowing from Edinburgh libraries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leith School of Art <a href="http://www.leithschoolofart.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.leithschoolofart.co.uk/</a></span>
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-53985106436916749982014-07-09T10:49:00.002+01:002014-07-11T20:27:33.642+01:00Artist Uncovered: Paul Martin<h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of beeswax and metaphysics</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier this year, Art in Healthcare were delighted to welcome in their Collection two paintings by Paul Martin, one of the leading exponents of encaustic art today. In this process the artist mixes pure pigments with melted beeswax over many layers often resulting in dreamlike paintings with a matt and subtle finish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Encaustic is about experimenting with natural ingredients and can be traced back to antiquity. This suits Paul Martin very well for here is an artist who is profoundly inspired by nature and favours continuity and authenticity over shock of the new.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two paintings, ‘Repapering’ and ‘The Sculptor in his Studio’ which both date back to the 1980s, are figurative works with similar tones and aesthetics. Their titles evoke ordinary activities but the unrealistic and staged feel of their compositions suggest metaphors instead. They tease the viewers with a myriad of questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <i>Repapering</i>, why is the father’s head out of sight? What is the mother doing in the background? What is the flowery pattern on the ripped wallpaper telling us? Is the child playing with a mirror? Is it a mirror? What is a mirror? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <i>The Sculptor’s Studio</i>, what is this broken circle the artist is holding in his right hand? Is it a tool? Is it an allusion to the mirror in the other painting? Are the square and triangular patterns on the floor some mathematical puzzles? Who are the sculpted figures? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By setting these paintings like theatrical tableaux the artist wishes to open up these fundamental questions. And of course there are no right or wrong answers, just wide ranging possibilities. For instance in <i>Repapering</i>, some viewers might see a resemblance between the sculptor and Socrates, the founder of Western philosophy and between the bust being created and Socrates’ ‘spiritual son’, Immanuel Kant. And is it purely coincidental that Socrates is credited with a particular method of enquiry known as Socratic Circles?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Martin’s disposition for debate was honed through discussions with his tutors and peers first at the Birmingham School of Art, a strong advocate of Abstract Expressionism, and later at the Royal Academy, a calculated choice that brought him back to figurative drawing. Then teaching came naturally to him as something that “he could not not do” but he kept up his own painting practice in parallel with his teaching career through the years and found that this dual focus benefited both his work and his students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sixty-seven works in his recent exhibition 'When Men and Mountains Meet' at the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh were painted over the last seven years. The style has changed since the 1980s. Now vigorous and expressionist marks fill up large canvasses sometime inhabited by outlined figures whose beautiful faces peer quizzically beyond the canvas. The painted surface is more gritty and organic but it is still sealed with wax which, says Martin, “metaphysically bonds” us all together with nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The artist stresses that the concerns are the same today as twenty five years ago. The exhibition also acknowledges his reading of ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ by Rainer Maria Rilke that has taken his investigation into the nature of nature into new directions. References to bird songs and flowing arias remind us that humanity should respect nature which is to be enjoyed by all living organisms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks to Paul Martin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Martin's website: <a href="http://www.paulmartinstudio.com/" target="_blank">http://www.paulmartinstudio.com/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Martin's exhibition 'When Men and Mountains Meet' <a href="http://www.whenmenandmountainsmeet.co.uk/#!exhibition/cnnt" target="_blank">http://www.whenmenandmountainsmeet.co.uk/#!exhibition/cnnt</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh <a href="http://dovecotstudios.com/about/" target="_blank">http://dovecotstudios.com/about/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warburton Gallery <a href="http://www.warburtongallery.com/#!when-men-and-mountains-meet/c12l0" target="_blank">http://www.warburtongallery.com/#!when-men-and-mountains-meet/c12l0</a></span><br />
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-51588877134858459592014-06-22T07:21:00.000+01:002014-07-09T10:49:06.917+01:00Artist Uncovered: Carolyn Burchell<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sandy beach, rows of windows set against a colourful facade, these scenes could be teeming with life and yet most of Carolyn Burchell’s paintings are devoid of people with perhaps just a hint of human presence here and there. We search for clues that would make the view distinctive or unique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Far from being put off by this stillness and emptiness, we find ourselves instead drawn towards it, the universal features acting as an invitation, a signal for our imagination to step in and we start weaving stories of our own. We begin to fill the painting with people we know and with our own memories of playing on a beach or of exploring Mediterranean villages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carolyn Burchell is a quiet and private artist who has been much inspired by her travels throughout Europe, latterly Norway and Poland in particular. For her the landscape is not about the faithful depiction of nature or memorable buildings but a means of expressing internal emotions. Working from detailed sketches drawn in situ and from photographs, back in her studio she teases out metaphors by carefully editing the composition. This process of simplification instils a dreamlike feel to her paintings that reaches beyond the edges of her relatively small wood panels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The added appeal of such symbolist landscapes for us viewers is that we can project our own mood onto them. Whether we are feeling sad or happy, the artist has provided us with the perfect setting for our own thoughts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since she painted the works in the AiH Collection, Burchell went on to complete a Masters in Research at the Glasgow School of Art in 2010 where she chose to focus on the forest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She became particularly interested in symbolism in landscape painting and read about Freud’s concept of the Uncanny and Jung’s theories of the unconscious, something she had not expected to do. She also spent much time drawing with charcoal exploring these ideas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She found the experience challenging, inspiring and full of surprises. For instance she once did a series of twenty five drawings of a pathway through trees, each one copied from the one before forming a flickbook and short film. The subtle and gradual changes seemed to animate the whole sequence so much so that another student said it looked like a fire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trees and woodlands occupy a special place in our psyche, they abound in folk and fairy tales and forests can be both places of refuge and danger. For Burchell who has been since childhood an avid reader of literature, often fiction and fantasy, woodlands are places of shelter where she can retreat among the trees. She sometimes puts herself in the picture as a small figure that stands alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How did the Masters impact on her work? Burchell feels that the intensive period of drawing has livened up her brush strokes and given movement to her paintings. Looking at her more recent works, we can see how her favourite archetypes have been energized. The trees are now animated and more expressive of the artist’s emotions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She describes her work as cathartic because she can lose herself and forget about life’s tribulations while painting and she encourages this healing process through community education among the adult classes she teaches including two recent series of workshops she led for Art in Healthcare in 2013 and early 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-73630725769699619012014-05-29T09:59:00.002+01:002014-07-09T10:49:23.062+01:00Artist Uncovered: Catriona Mann<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is difficult if not impossible to imagine Catriona Mann ever being idle. In her own words, she likes to have a project on the go that “she can sink her teeth into” and she always finds plenty to keep herself busy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having first graduated in Fine Art at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, she went on to study law. She combined law and painting for a while until her children came along. Nowadays she finds law very useful to advise young artists and art organisations on tricky issues regarding copyright and contracts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has made her mark on the art scene in Scotland in many ways. She got involved with ‘Paintings in Hospitals, Scotland’ from the start in 1991 as a founder trustee and as some readers will know, ‘Art in Healthcare’ was born of PiHS in 2005. An elected Professional Member of the Council of Visual Arts Scotland, she is a past President of Visual Arts Scotland and currently a Director of Exhibiting Societies of Scottish Artists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has also found time to renovate her house to its former glory and being a keen gardener, created a beautiful garden </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with flowers to inspire her </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from an overgrown mess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She describes her artworks as drawings rather than paintings. Indeed the prevailing linearity brings out their dreamlike feel and the words she frequently includes for their visual impact are evocative of surrealist automatic writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her sources of inspiration are wide-ranging: music, foreign travels and cultures, religion and the plants she grows in her garden, particularly lilies for their shape. Her works are not simply representations of landscapes or seascapes but imaginary abstractions. For instance when a friend asked her to paint Iona, the green marble stones, known as ‘St Columba’s tears’ which he brought back from the island, guided the colours in the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mann does not paint on conventional canvas or paper, she prefers to work on mounting card which is strong enough to withstand her particular method of working. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgoing brushes, she builds up layers of pigment and collage with watercolour crayons, water-based paint and tissue paper that give her better control and if the painting is not working, she simply scrapes off certain areas and starts again. Traces of the previous drawings remain visible on the surface. She welcomes these ghostly residues and integrates them into the next stage of the painting. She has very seldom regretted making such radical decisions. She believes that artists should experiment and take risks to push their work forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes she even peels the entire top layer right off the forgiving card. She showed me one of these discarded ’skins’ stretched out in her studio. It is down to her experience and skill that such a large area has survived in one piece this forceful separation. She will later integrate parts of it into new works. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This process of deconstruction, reconstruction and metamorphosis denotes the close relationship, dependence even, between Mann’s finished paintings and her rejects and I am reminded of Picasso’s famous quote “The very act of creation is first an act of destruction”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an artist who finds it liberating and inspiring to subvert conventions and who positively thrives on a state of creative flux. She explains that she starts with an idea but not a vision and that her most successful works have happened when she is least sure of the outcome, adding: “if it is too easy what’s the point?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following anecdote illustrates this statement. She recently brought back some incense sticks from Vietnam, not the usual twig-like sticks but five-feet long poles painted in striking red with gold lettering. Their transport back to Scotland took some resourceful wrapping and even more ingenious convincing of airline staff and customs officers. But in the end it was worth it. They arrived intact and will be featuring in future works. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rsw.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.rsw.org.uk</a></span><br />
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-75033170504561056012014-05-07T15:22:00.002+01:002014-07-09T10:49:51.736+01:00Artist Uncovered: Marjorie I Campbell 1936-1999<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marjorie Campbell was a professional book illustrator, graphic designer and lecturer. She was a most talented and prolific artist who left a collection of works that amaze by their diversity and strength.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marjorie’s younger sister, Dr Alison Kerr, has made a meticulous inventory of her sketches, drawings and paintings and numerous sketchbooks. She showed me a selection while telling me her family history. The two girls were born in northern China where their parents were medical missionaries during the Sino-Japanese war. When their father died of typhoid aged 31, their mother had to make the perilous journey to the coast during brief periods of ceasefire with her two very young daughters of three years and eleven months respectively before boarding a ship home, a passage which during WWII, was fraught with danger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in Scotland, they settled down first in Inverness-shire and later in Edinburgh. Theirs was an artistic, musical and very supportive family. They occasionally received visits from missionary friends who would mesmerize their young audience with true and heroic stories. Later Marjorie would provide others with the same warmth and generosity she had grown up with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her talent was soon noticed and nurtured at home and at school. Alison remembers how their mother, now a teacher, involved her older daughter in creating art work in preparation for her own class teaching and in drawing paper dolls with which the two girls played. The family enjoyed outdoor pursuits such as camping and cycling that offered many sketching and painting opportunities. The Highland and Hebridean landscapes impressed Campbell early on, particularly the island of Lismore where she would often return as an adult with her husband and four daughters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1954 Campbell went to Edinburgh College of Art, winning scholarships to London in 1956 and Paris in 1957. She qualified as a designer and book illustrator, a considered choice that combined her love of books and art and could earn an income. She became a Member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers in 1985 and also applied her design talent to quilting for her family and friends. In 1989 she founded Luckenbooth, a small crystal engraving business, in collaboration with engraver Wilma MacKenzie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In parallel with her professional practice, Campbell never ceased to draw and paint the world around her, her children, still lifes and flowers. These loose and expressionist sketches, quickly executed, reveal an artist always challenging herself and equally at ease with representational or abstract language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Kerr explains that Campbell did not regard these experimental and fluid works as especially significant and many were given away or simply disposed of but those she kept were tucked away in an attic space. It was only after her death that her close family discovered the extent of her output and have since endeavoured to make it known.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a couple of years Campbell had a studio in an abandoned brick works near Edinburgh, an environment that inspired a series of works featuring industrial rejects that she endowed with animal-like presence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marjorie would have approved wholeheartedly the donation of sixteen of her works to Art in Healthcare to brighten up healthcare settings. Together they showcase the artist’s talent in a variety of media such as watercolour, pen and ink, screen print and oil from the fine details of ‘Edinburgh Castle’ to her powerful and subjective landscapes and seascapes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A surprise for the family was to discover several doll pictures among the attic stash. Reminiscent of her childhood cut outs, these dolls, despite their smiley face, are poignantly eerie and allude to carefully hidden turmoil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a whole the collection offers a remarkable insight into a personal artistic journey that epitomizes the renaissance of Scottish art in the second half of the twentieth century. It deserves to be pored over and appreciated by a much wider public. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks to Dr A Kerr and A G Campbell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marj Bond welcomes me into her house. From the front it looks just like a typical Fife cottage. As she takes me through to the back however I am transported into another world. The house has been extended into a large wooden conservatory where artworks and large fronds compete for space. The views stretch to the Lomond Hills in the distance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her surroundings inspire Bond, not to paint them realistically, but in a sensorial sense. The scents, light and colour of a place as well as its social and cultural attributes all impact on her mood, wellbeing and creativity. The revelatory moments that have transformed her practice over the years were triggered by her discovery of exciting new environments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, she was expected to settle down and teach in her home town of Paisley but instead escaped to go and teach in North Uist where the Hebridean landscape and the Gaelic culture had a powerful effect on her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then in 1988 Bond went for a three months sabbatical tour of India with James Gray, her soul mate and architect who designed their house extension. This experience changed her life. She absorbed all these stimuli, the people, animals and architectural details, in sketches and photographs and later back home in the intimacy of her studio conjured them up again in stylised and whimsical compositions in a variety of media with layers of handmade Indian paper for textured effect and compelling colours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Intuitive glyphs and motifs started to appear, retrieved from her innermost self. The artist cannot explain their meaning, they simply take shape as she works out a question or a problem. Painting is therapy for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her palette which had been subdued until then was now vibrant and her subsequent exhibition ‘Images of India’ at the Open Eye Gallery was a great success. She went on many more trips to colourful destinations such as Cuba, Mexico and Southern Spain. She mentions the influence that the allegorical paintings of Zapotec-Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo had on her work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In recent years Bond has become fascinated by Mary Queen of Scots and has painted several portraits of her. Mary had strong connections with Fife through Falkland Palace, the Scottish kings’ hunting retreat and her imprisonment in Lochleven Castle. The artist has deliberately exaggerated the oblong face. This elongation and the simplification of features are characteristic of Bond’s style and convey tension and emotion. Such stylisation is reminiscent of so-called primitive masks and of Alberto Giacometti’s work for instance that Bond admires. The long narrow nose stretches almost the whole length of the face to emphasise the wistful eyes and tight mouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary’s golden headdress shines like the halo of religious iconography, Eastern and Western alike, a suggestion reinforced by the gold cross showing under her ruff and by the flame-like cartouche above her head that bears her monogram. Her deathly-pale face appears to be floating against the dark background, alluding to her tragic end, a queen and a martyr saint all at once. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bond speaks of Mary’s fate with great empathy, how she had to give up the sensuous French court for the oppressive Scotland of John Knox, a destiny in reverse to her own it seems as her discovery of India and other inspiring countries fulfilled her passionate temperament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is currently working on a portrait of Joyce Laing, the Fife-based champion of ‘Outsider Art’ and pioneer of art therapy in Scotland. She hopes it will be exhibited in due course as a tribute to the sitter. Bond’s appreciation of this art form outside fine art conventions is entirely consistent with her own practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/artist-details/marj-bond/" target="_blank">http://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/artist-details/marj-bond/</a></span><br />
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Healthcare, more than any other artist in the Collection. Together they denote a wide range of media and
printmaking techniques, extensive travels across the globe, a love for remote
landscapes and last but not least, a giving disposition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She exudes vitality and it comes as no surprise to learn that
she studied the joint MA (Hons) in History of Art and Drawing and Painting at
the University of Edinburgh. She reckons that her multi-tasking approach to
work is due to this early dual training. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Printmaking was an option Tyson took in her final undergraduate
years and she found that the department’s nurturing ambience suited her better
than Drawing and Painting. Soon after graduating she joined the Printmakers
Workshop, later to become Edinburgh Printmakers where she found the same
support she had enjoyed at art college. Typically she soon gave back as much as she
had received by serving as chairperson on their committee at a pivotal time of
change in the 1980s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is clearly passionate about printmaking and while
lithography is her main practice, she uses a whole variety of techniques from
traditional to digital technology. This is no mean feat as they all work on
different principles. She loves the lithographic process and finds the grinding
and preparation of the stone relaxing and conducive to the planning of her
composition. Printmaking is all about deconstructing the image and rebuilding it
layer by layer, like a slow form of painting, she explains, and because colours
are applied sequentially, you have to adapt each one according to the others. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She frequently mixes elements from these different techniques
to capture even the most subtle effect, screenprinting for opacity, <i>manière noire</i> for a touch of drama, soap
washes for paler appeal and hand-drawn marks for direct impact. Her range of
skills and her ability to adapt and switch between methods have proved to be
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This versatility imparts freshness and immediacy to her works
while her calculated economy of details draws you into her compositions. You
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her predilection for marginal places has taken her to St
Kilda, the Lofoten Islands and the Namib desert among others, all names synonymous
with harsh and precarious living. Humans’ aptitude to survive in those
inclement conditions is often acknowledged in her vast landscapes by some small
and somewhat futile signs of their presence like a telephone box or a tattered
poster. She dedicated her exhibition ‘Shelter’ at the Open Eye Gallery in
Edinburgh in 2013 to this topic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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created by the Edinburgh printing firm Harley Brothers whose master printers
collaborated with the great names of Scottish art during the 1950s and 60s
before going into decline. Their lithographs of works by Anne Redpath and
Elizabeth Blackadder and many more will be brought together for the first time
in Gallery Ten in Edinburgh, a space Tyson co-founded in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Strange Place, Believe Me </i>lithograph and screenprint 83x90cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is delighted to have been selected as the 2014 Printmaker
of the Year by ‘Printfest’, an event based in Ulverston in Cumbria across the
bay where she was born. She will be making new work during her residency and will
help generate interest into her art, a role she is looking forward to with
characteristic enthusiasm.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a visual artist and freelance writer based in Edinburgh</i></span></span></div>
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<![endif]--><a href="http://www.graham.co.uk/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="http://www.graham.co.uk/" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzPQ8rBD9dDLXuMKnQYjmTOvU9sA2e7vxuwrU7UKDiY1Fn2zEw1ZoezR9AUUAymjxjQ9SQtZK08s7XS2IXdsMoXAV0X75A2qu0nu2jmfPo0H8Am5FDfuNAkqt_BJ9q2dsnp_7DrfJlA/s1600/logo.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Drumbrae House is a new state-of-the-art, 60 bed care
home commissioned by the City of Edinburgh Council and built just last year off
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members of the local community, voted from a list of four potential names with
Drumbrae House being the clear winner.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A beautiful home like this needed beautiful artwork so <span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b><a href="http://www.graham.co.uk/" target="_blank">Graham Construction</a></b></span> very kindly sponsored the rental of 26
original works of art from the Art in Healthcare Collection to be displayed in
the home for the enjoyment of the staff, residents and visitors. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With pure luminosity reflecting on dark matter and vast expanses of sky, sea and land, Iain Stewart’s photographs have a dream-like quality that hovers on the threshold of consciousness. Are these balanced compositions the product of hours of digital wizardry? The answer is definitely not as I discover that this artist works only with film cameras for his Fine Art photography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This means that all decisions regarding composition and light are made at the shooting stage as there will be no cropping, erasing or any other kind of image manipulation later, just nature’s magic captured at the right moment and from the right viewpoint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such perfect timing is hardly down to luck. Instead it relies on the artist’s thorough knowledge of the terrain, weather conditions and seasonal fluctuations and on his profound connection with the landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And indeed Iain Stewart needs that emotional trigger. His landscapes are either familiar places he frequents often or special places that he empathises with immediately, like Cape Wrath. Born in Yorkshire of Scottish parents who were both doctors, he regularly visited Scotland while growing up, loved it and always knew that this was where he would eventually settle down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He chose to study textile design at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1980s but was always drawn towards painting and photography which was not yet a full curriculum, and inspired by great photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. He was however able to do a Master degree in photography, the only student on the course, and this is where he learnt his skills from his tutor and mentor Murray Johnson. This somewhat circuitous approach taught him not to let technicality get in the way and hinder his creativity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He recalls that his first body of work was a series of portraits of his father’s patients from the newly born to the terminally ill. This assignment proved to be a determining experience that made him aware of that special connection between practitioner and patient. It was also to bring him some important commissions from the medical field later in his career. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stewart’s commercial practice is in complete contrast with his Fine Art photography. Not only is it all digital but also, while his landscapes are very quiet and devoid of the human figure, his commissioned works are all about people and Stewart recognises that one could not exist without the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are opposite and at the same time share the same process. In both cases the artist gets closer and closer to his subject and this closeness together with the removal of all superfluous information, combine to deliver a universal message. His images are not about that particular horizon or that particular patient but about that fleeting and all enveloping moment when connectivity and healing can happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iain Stewart has works in the Sanctuary of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, a non-denominational space for reflection and prayer where his meditative and immersive seascapes fittingly welcome visitors, drawing them in with uninterrupted lines and colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He exhibits widely at home and abroad and is represented in many collections including that of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is currently working towards a solo exhibition to be shown in the autumn in the Wild Space, the John Muir Trust visitor centre in Pitlochry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Iain Stewart's website and blog</span>: <a href="http://www.isphotographs.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.isphotographs.co.uk/ </a> </span><a href="http://isphotographs.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://isphotographs.blogspot.co.uk/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">The Wild Space:</span> <a href="http://www.jmt.org/wildspace.asp">http://www.jmt.org/wildspace.asp</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His expressionist works have a weight and breadth that exceed their relatively small canvasses where solid blocks of paint are often juxtaposed with man made structures. Their linearity suggests the abstract and yet the elements are recognisable: standing stones, roads, buildings, all familiar and strange at the same time. People may be absent from the picture but their presence, past or recent, is strongly felt. What deep emotions run beneath the visible narrative?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mac Coll explains the defining moments that have informed his practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First the 1987 exhibition ‘The Vigorous Imagination’ showcasing new Scottish art, sealed young Eòghann’s future by showing him what positive difference art could make at a time when Scotland’s economy and traditional industries were collapsing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later a series of journeys were crucial in forming his sense of identity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the days of grant-funded education, he was able to study art in England and Scotland and go on an exchange to Barcelona where he not only experienced at first hand the works of Catalan abstract expressionists Joan Mirò and Antoni Tàpies but also the distinctive and proud Catalan culture that revived his interest in his own Gaelic heritage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When he returned to Scotland, he decided to research the megaliths or standing stones that had been his ancestor Alexander Thom’s passion. His quest took him to the margins of Scotland’s mainland and islands, drawing for hours and learning about his great grandfather’s work. This proved a tough mathematical challenge but it made him realise that those who created the stone formations had a highly sophisticated knowledge of astronomy and were part of a network reaching far beyond these shores. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the stones have Gaelic names, Mac Coll started learning the language, an arduous task in itself, but characteristic of his commitment to finding his own sense of place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the palpable solitude of his paintings evocative of his lonely road trips, the artist asks us to consider with him where we are coming from and where we are going, and what remoteness really means, remote for whom and from what? Isn’t our perception of remoteness a subjective marker of our centralised society?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2005, he received the prestigious Alastair Salvesen Art Scholarship award and embarked on a journey to the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Canada, opting to leave Scotland northward, an experience he strongly recommends, enjoying many more long car journeys and meeting people perfectly comfortable with their ‘remoteness’.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More recently his residencies in Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo have strengthened his Gaelic identity which he brings into his paintings and digital works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Taibhse *</i> * mixed media </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nowadays, life is very busy for Mac Coll between his young family and work. He paints during what he calls “‘stolen’ studio time”, the perfect scenario for this artist who loves the way paint works for him when applied under pressure and almost in a frenzy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Future plans involve testing himself further with much larger canvasses, three metres by two metres, a scale of such proportions that he will feel at one with the landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eòghann Mac Coll</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>Earagail le Bòthar </i>'Road with Earagail'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Taibhse </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">'Place where a person once was'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">The 1987 exhibition 'The Vigorous Imagination' signaled a renewal in Scottish art and featured among others Adrian Wiszniewski whose 'Artist Uncovered' article was published in this blog in May 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eòghann Mac Coll's website <a href="http://www.dealbhadair.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dealbhadair.com/</a></span>
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-76934801934781403852014-01-22T17:20:00.003+00:002014-02-24T16:33:18.221+00:00Latest AiH Artwork Acquisitions<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our charity is very fortunate to own artwork by many of the most exciting artists working in the country today. The last few months have been exceptionally fantastic with new work coming into our 1,400 strong Collection by artists including Alan McGowan, Kittie Jones, Henry Kondracki, Iain Robertson, Caroline McNairn, and Jennifer MacRae, to name just a few! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />We thought we'd take this opportunity to post images of new work by some of these talented artist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-52494215495162774412014-01-22T09:59:00.000+00:002014-07-09T10:51:56.216+01:00Artist Uncovered: Gayle Robinson<h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although Gayle Robinson’s prints are inspired by the Scottish countryside you will not be able to find their exact location anywhere. The rolling hills, the rows of trees, the earthy furrows have all been carefully pieced together by the artist into her very own imaginary landscape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gayle confides that she loves her work and this shows in the vitality of her images, in their composition and colours. Her art form is collograph, a printmaking process based on collage. First you need a rigid board or plate on which to glue your composite elements. These can be anything you like, she explains, fragments of your daily life, string, cut-outs, wrappers and other throwaways, the more textured the better. You can also draw freely on the plate with carborundum, a sand-like compound she mixes with glue. When all these bits and pieces are securely fixed and the glue is dry, you then prepare your paints and apply them with a brush or a roller as thickly or thinly as you like. Thickness is important as it determines the tonal range of the print. The plate is finally pressed onto paper to produce a unique artwork as every print varies in colour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The process sounds like a lot of fun, almost like child’s play. But we should not be deceived by its apparent simplicity, it takes skill and experience to know what tones will work together and how to give depth to the flattened image. Gayle Robinson’s prints are exhibited widely around the UK. They have great feel-good appeal and it comes as no surprise to find that all her works in the Art in Healthcare Collection are out on loan to healthcare settings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gayle was born in Glasgow, the city where she came back to live and work after studying in Aberdeen and Dundee. She works from Glasgow Print Studio where she also teaches. Her early passion for architecture and textiles, for Gustav Klimt and Henri Matisse still inspire her art today, in the linearity of her compositions and her predilection for warm colours. Her technique of choice suits the stunning hues, recurring patterns and abstracted shapes that have become her trademarks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her interpretation of nature is stylised and at the same time realistic because it is informed by her knowledge of the countryside and its seasonal variations observed during frequent outings with her family. All the time while walking her eyes are storing up information about forms, light and tones which she later brings together into her compositions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gayle Robinson is perfectly in tune with her medium. Balance and harmony are crucial to her practice, not just in terms of composition but also in the synchronisation of life and work. For instance she sometimes notices after she has mixed her colours that they match the clothes she is wearing that day which also happen to reflect the mood she is in and the pretty heart and leaf motifs she currently favours are made with her young daughters’ craft punches. Combined with the shapes she delicately cuts with a scalpel or with pieces of distinctive fabrics like Harris Tweed, they create an ideogram or graphic alphabet that can be readily understood as there is no need of a Rosetta stone to decipher its universal symbols. Her personal language becomes our own.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A look at the list of subjects in the Art in Healthcare Collection reveals a predominance of landscapes and nature-related paintings. This is no doubt more than just a coincidence as the benefits to wellbeing of the natural environment have been known for a long time. Over the next couple of months, while nature dispenses its most severe weathers upon us, I shall be looking at the work of artists in the Collection who conjure up the great outdoor for our enrichment and enjoyment in their own distinctive ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oliver Reed’s engagement with nature is as physical as it is intellectual. As a hill-walker, the Munros of the Torridon Hills are favourite climbs of his, particularly at New Year. There, surrounded by some of the oldest rocks on earth going back hundreds of millions of years, the artist cannot but be acutely aware of the passing of time and of his sense of place. The forces of nature that thrust these mountains up and then sculpted them down into the landforms we know today indeed bring to mind the Romantic aesthetic vision of the sublime that put man in its insignificant place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weathering of rocks and nature’s manipulation of raw materials captivate Reed, not only in their immense scale but also at microscopic levels, in the lichens that cling to the rocks for instance. The challenge for the artist is in the translation of these emotions and concepts onto a two-dimensional surface. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reed’s representation of the land comes in a diversity of forms: painting, drawing, filming, and assemblage of objects. His paintings are primarily about drawing which is also the key area of his teaching practice and if his style appears to be always changing this is because it defines itself through process and experimentation. This artist is constantly looking for new ways of making marks and often in an unconventional manner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is currently painting with natural materials such as graphite and pastels that are more traditionally associated with drawing and often hammers them into the thick paper with granite stones picked up during his walking trips. It is as if, through these gestures, he aspires to depict the hardness and rawness of his very physical encounters with the hills, his direct contact with the surface mirroring his closeness to the rocks. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His handling of materials is also echoed in his manipulation of the digital images he brings back from his hiking trips in his search for the right shape or mass that will inform his paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reed likes to combine low-tech with high-tech processes. In his painting in the AiH collection the organic splashes stand out against the minute and barely visible coordinates of longitude and latitude contained within the graph paper. Here he alludes to the paradox that the sophisticated technology that produces this data can never tell us exactly where we are as it is forever progressing towards infinity and therefore the information it gives us is as random and arbitrary as the splatters of paint.</span><br />
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<br />Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-52586021626065256182013-12-16T13:30:00.003+00:002014-07-09T10:52:19.186+01:00Artist Uncovered: Nicole Bennett<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is pitch dark. A haphazard spot of light makes its slow way along a crowded mantle piece revealing an odd gathering of anthropomorphic creatures, some faded photographs, a tiny bird cage, a wound up toy, and many more. With this short short film produced for her DJCAD Masters show in 2013, Nicole Bennett investigates her relationship with the objects she has acquired indiscriminately over the years, put on display above the fireplace and forgotten about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By bringing them out of obscurity, literally, she renews her acquaintance with them, reflects on their nostalgic and sentimental connotations and what they mean to her and at the same time explores her own identity. Through her camera she puts some distance between herself and her familiar surroundings and becomes an observer, an ethnographer on a field trip collecting data. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The artist invites us to make sense of these artefacts, to speculate about their connection with each other and about the person who put them there. And just as the ethnographers’ interpretation of their findings is influenced by their own history and background, the narrative we weave around these objects tells more about ourselves than about the artist. We filter these images and fabricate a myth where we can reinvent or escape our own reality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bennett’s skill as a myth-maker is to instil those everyday trinkets with mysterious and uncanny energy before releasing them on the audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contrast between light and dark is a crucial device throughout her practice. She relates it to the current argument that our society may be moving away from the age of Enlightenment regulated by science and empirical study and returning to the Dark Ages, a shadowy period of history dominated by legend and superstition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by the carpet in her sitting room, she has produced a mesmerizing series of paintings saturated with glare lighting. She discovered this effect through some flash flooded photographs she once took, a happy mistake she found particularly evocative and that intensifies the duality of familiar and strange. The central pool of brightness emphasises the exuberant floral pattern but the overall mood remains ambiguous and even threatening with the dark edges closing in all around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her work in the Art in Healthcare collection, <i>Cornflakes and Coke</i>, is a large painting that offers a daytime peek into her family life. The palette is softly toned and light pours into the room through the window and the half-drawn curtain. We recognise the motifs on the carpet. We also catch a glimpse of the fireplace on the right-hand side. The glare effect of the sun is achieved by practically draining the centre of the carpet from all its colours but instead of suggesting dark outer shadows, the artist has created a sense of haze by roughly sketching the surrounding furniture and wall features with pencil marks instead of paint. The scene is peaceful domestic bliss, in sharp contrast to her night time forays into darkness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Martine Foltier Pugh is a freelance writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks to Nicole Bennett</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De Maistre, Xavier <i>A Journey Around My Room </i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_de_Maistre" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_de_Maistre</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">I first heard about Andrew when I was working at Leith School of Art in 2004. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Andrew had been
attending classes since the school opened in 1989. His style is
unmistakable in that he has an absolute unwavering attention to detail. For
example, whereas the other students will create expressive representations with
paint of the plants used in a still life setup, Andrew will paint every single
leaf. He also doesn't really like anyone standing too close to him, although I’m kind of the same
in that respect when I’m painting. However, it's the way Andrew views AND captures the world in paint that makes
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I only worked Saturday’s at the school, I would immediately recognise his oil
paintings before anyone else’s as they hung on the wall drying with all the other students' work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a month ago I was at my local café that I visit religiously every morning for a much needed strong coffee before work and John, the "white van man" (who is also usually there every
morning for his caffeine fix) mentioned that he had a load of artwork to be picked up at a flat in
town and he wondered if Art in Healthcare would like it. He said the artist’s
father had just died and as the artist was autistic, and his mother was also no longer alive, the estate was being sorted
out by a law firm. John was hired to go to the residence to organise, document and pack up all the belongings and the lawyers weren't sure what to do with the rooms full or art. No one else seemed to want it. </span><br />
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out of curiosity as I figured it was rather highly unlikely, I asked John, “Do
you know if the artist is called Andrew Gilchrist?” I </span><span style="line-height: 17.77777862548828px;">couldn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> believe
it when he said he was. John explained that it was Andrew’s father who kept all
the work and Andrew really didn’t have much to do with it after he finished
it. I assume Andrew enjoys the process of creating more than having a completed
artwork to look at. At least this is what I think. I have a lot of questions
and I plan on meeting with Andrew’s main teacher at the art school to find out
a little more. The lawyer in charge of the estate provided me with the email address of Andrew's cousin, who will also hopefully be able to give me a little more information about Andrew and his painting. </span></span></div>
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of pieces) by a very unique and talented artist. I would very much like to organise an exhibition to showcase this wonderful work but also to try to shed some light on how autistic artists engage with the world and the positive affect creativity has with regards to health and wellbeing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I think Andrew’s work is important. It tells an exciting story and it provides some insight into autism. I plan to apply for funding to help with
costs such as framing the work, securing a venue, perhaps a book, advertising
etc. We'll possibly accession some of Andrew's artwork into the Art in Healthcare Collection to display in hospitals and then we'll be selling the rest of the work to raise funds for the charity and to help cover exhibition costs. I'm sure a lot of people would love to have an original A. </span><span style="line-height: 17.77777862548828px;">Gilchrist</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> in their homes to admire. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.77777862548828px;">I don't know what Andrew's financial situation is but it would be nice to give something back to him if the exhibition was successful. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">If you have any questions, advice, suggestions etc please don’t hesitate to contact me at </span><a href="mailto:tjones@artinhealthcare.org.uk" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">tjones@artinhealthcare.org.uk</a><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Trevor Jones</span></span><br />
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Art in Healthcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643650250963462537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17791442504036085.post-71620023459149757532013-12-10T11:40:00.000+00:002013-12-10T12:10:43.722+00:00What exactly did Art in Healthcare get up to at the 2013 Edinburgh Art Fair?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outreach Manager, Amelia Calvert, gives a brief overview of the event..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing from the comfort of my
desk with a cup of tea beside me is a far cry from what was the bustle of the
Edinburgh Art Fair (EAF) four weeks ago! Art in Healthcare’s (AiH) presence
over the course of the 3-day weekend was nothing but action-packed with little
time for sitting drinking tea and, due to the fun buzz of the occasion, nor did I
wish to be doing so. Contrarily I felt that as an AiH employee helping to
oversee our various activities and volunteers it was a real privilege to be in
attendance at the event. The EAF in itself was clearly a massive undertaking in
terms of the coordination of hundreds of different individuals and
organisations so a huge well done to Andy and Lorna McDougall who masterminded and
oversaw the project in its’ entirety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what exactly was AiH’s role
there? Largely to provide a range of workshops for children, painting
demonstrations and talks for adults, plus the opportunity for visitors to buy
some of our prestigious prints and to learn about the services we provide as an
organisation. Additionally, we put up for sale a selection of artwork by those
artists from our Collection who had been involved in AiH’s workshops and talks
programme at the EAF, hereby supporting local artists with their own
endeavours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order for all of our
activities to take place, we had a superb team of volunteers and interns who
were well briefed in advance about their various roles throughout the EAF,
albeit helping with the workshops, manning our information stand, helping with the
sales of our artworks, taking photographs and video footage and generally being
on hand for miscellaneous tasks. Their help was invaluable and enabled us to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The childrens’ workshops were
particularly successful with artist Leo du Feu barely drawing breath through
each of his 3 per day 1hr long sessions that he ran. With thanks to Great Art for
generously donating </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of the art
materials used throughout the weekend, the results were a wide selection of
colourful, lively and imaginative creations that the children could take home,
probably for sticking on the kitchen fridge! Jacqueline Watt and Alan McGowan
both ran fascinating, if very different to each other, painting demonstrations
relating to their own individual practice, and captivated their audiences with
their skills and creativity. Kate Downie gave a talk about the influence of
bridges in her art, which attracted a large number of listeners and myself and
Trevor, AiH’s Director, gave talks with insights into different themes relating
to our work for AiH. Meanwhile, Damian Callan created a magnificent ‘Art in
Motion’ over the course of the weekend - essentially a gigantic artwork he drew
of the EAF at the EAF, which is to be sold with all proceeds going directly to
AiH.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With over 12,000 people pouring
through the doors over the 3 days of the EAF, a record number of visitors surpassing all previous years, we felt sure that AiH had been given a fantastic opportunity to
raise awareness about themselves and gather momentum for the year of 2014 lying
not far ahead. We also felt a distinct ‘cameraderie’ between ourselves -
volunteers, interns, staff members and artists, and everyone else – other
galleries, visitors and organising staff. What a great feat to put on such a
feast for the eyes with all that artwork on display </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with such a jolly atmosphere. We are greatly looking forward to
next year already to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the EAF…</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can watch a film about AiH’s involvement at the EAF by clicking <a href="http://youtu.be/5WdphTICfQM" target="_blank">here</a>, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made by one of our volunteers, Will Murray Brown. </span></i></div>
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