exhibitions
coast lines · border lines
6th September - 14th October 2023
For this exhibition, Euan McGregor’s highly stylised landscapes with a graphic and modernist feel are focused on Scotland’s coastline - predominantly Fife and East Lothian. Euan touches on subjects close to his heart – the edges and fringe spaces of the land, echoes of the past, modernist architecture, colour, light and an element of nostalgia. He says, “ I enjoy using aerial imaging to obtain interesting angles and some elevation on the scenes. As well as the higher perspective, I find it gives me greater reference to study rooftop composition, or more depth in the landscape.” Simon Rivett’s paintings explore the landscape of the Scottish-English border. The resultant landscape is full of varied shapes and textures set against the rolling forms of the hills, making ideal motifs for his creative explorations, using layers, colour, line and shape. “The paintings’ primary concerns are not descriptive accounts of the light, weather or topography of the Borders. Rather, they take those elements and play with them, attempting to push them into pleasing compositions of shape, line and balanced colour that go beyond simply description.”
Exhibition Images
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Euan McGregor PAI
An award winning artist, Euan McGregor lives and works in West Kilbride on the north Ayrshire coast.
Euan’s roots are in printmaking, giving his work an emphasis on mark-making and shape. He has an interest in all things Modernist and in particular, mid 20th century British landscape painting. His influences include Hockney, Piper and the St Ives school in Cornwall.
His recent work has been inspired by some of our iconic malt whisky distilleries. Frequently drawn to marginal and fringe spaces in his work, he says “I love the fact that these structures often inhabit the wildest of places, so there’s a contradiction of sorts but they work well together, especially as the product is so synonymous with its geography. The buildings themselves are industrial cathedrals with specific shapes integral to the whisky-making process.”
Euan’s work has a strong sen ... Read More
Simon Rivett
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
Simon Rivett trained at Goldsmiths College in London and gained a BA (Honours) in Fine Art. He has been painting landscape from his days as a student, painting the declining industrial landscape of his home in Newcastle, living and working in Lewis and exploring the unique rural landscape of the Outer Hebrides, before moving recently to live in Edinburgh.
He says "I like to take time to look beyond the obvious and understand the depth of this landscape, to interpret its subtle moods and to see the interactions between its different aspects."
Whether Simon is painting mountains in Iceland, the peaty moorland of Lewis, the gentle hills of Cumbria and Northumberland, or the urban city environment, the graphic rhythms and components of these lands ar ... Read More