10th October 2011
I’ve been busy helping Jochem Rotteveel with hanging his show and bartending his opening. I’ve been enjoying the lack of responsibilty which comes with being artist’s assistant, rather than artist.. And although I haven’t had a hugely successful carrer as a bartender, having been sacked from my only bar job back in the bloom of […]
6th October 2011
I dread going to the supermarket here. It is fascinating, granted, but you exit feeling like you’ll soon be riddled with E numbers and exhausted from hunting down things that don’t come wrapped in layers and layers of neon packaging. The muffins come wrapped in brightly coloured foil, with an oxygen absorber pouch, inside further […]
5th October 2011
So, the photo shows the interior of my local restaurant. Desperate, long fish/eels, flapping about and rapidly drying-out frogs await their doom. As you can see, some patrons sport the common city fashion of flannel pyjamas, which I was pleased about, as I’d read a fair bit about that before arrival and indeed, have packed […]
1st October 2011
Some of the sights around the Hood in the Hai.
29th September 2011
Last night I ventured down to the People’ Park in central Shanghai with spectacular views to the skyscrapers of Nanjeing Road behind. I really had the feeling that I could have been in any big, commercial, world metropolis but with the foreground of the park, and the monumental skyline behind, there was a romance and […]
25th September 2011
Confusing times here in the Hai. There are times when it seems pretty much impossible to achieve what you want or find what you are looking for. In life, as well as on the street, but all the more difficult when the objectives are in Chinese characters, and the streets of the Hai can be […]
22nd September 2011
As I am filling in for the gallerist this week while she networks in Korea, the fantastic job of interviewing the Dutch artist Jochem Rotteveel has fallen to me! Although we seem to have hit it off, a mutual difficulty with each others’ names has resulted in Johann Rockefeller and Patsy McDonald emerging as our […]
21st September 2011
I am temporarily based in the M50 art complex in northern Shanghai. It’s cited as the thriving artist quarter of Shanghai, with over 80 artists’ studios, galleries, both big and small, chinese and international, and other design-related businesses. It’s a strange place, an old textile mill, with all sorts of spaces. Supposedly it’s where the […]
20th September 2011
I was originally going to be posting the Shanghai travel chat on my Vie En Rose blog. However the powers that be behind the Bamboo Curtain, don’t seem to allow access to blogs or many other things, so will have to do it from the website news page. I landed some days ago in Shanghai […]
13th September 2011
With its twists and turns that old joker called Life has thrown me some conundrums that have hustled me onto a plane and off to Shanghai for a spell to realign myself, reaquaint with the enigma that is Laura Clemente Castillejo, my old compadre from NYC, and make some work in her fantastic Pantocrator Gallery […]
30th August 2011
My 2 person exhibition with Lee Robertson opens this Thursday at ScotlandArt Edinburgh Gallery on St. Stephen Street in Stockbridge, Edinburgh at 6.30pm. I will be showing new underwater paintings and some new drawings of a female aerial artist. I would be delighted to see all who can make it.
28th July 2011
I’ve been splashing about in the Athenian Riviera this summer (not as glamorous as it sounds), and got some great source material of figures in pools, freshwater and saltwater lakes and the open sea. I’ve come back with a painting head on, and it’s been impossible to get me out of the studio. Really a […]
8th July 2011
I’ve been working hard on some new drawings for a figurative show at Blackheath Gallery in London in August. It’s the first time I’ve worked with a female model for some years and I’m really pleased with the results. My model is an aerial artist who has some pretty impressive moves in her repertoire. Here […]
30th May 2011
I am exhibiting new paintings and drawings alongside Edinburgh-based figurative painter Colin Dunbar at the Lunardi Gallery, Ceres, Fife through June and July. For more information, please contact the gallery (www.lunardigallery.com).
16th May 2011
I’ve just sent some new drawings over to Spain for the SWAB Art Fair in Barcelona. They will then be travelling on to China to be shown at Pantocrator Gallery in Shanghai. Fingers Xed I’ll get out there myself at some point over the next 6 months – never been to China and reckon it […]
27th April 2011
The Rock Trust is an Edinburgh-based charity which supports homeless young people and is currently staging a postcard exhibition with a host of postcards donated by a wealth of well-known artists (including my good self!). It is being staged at the Traverse Theatre and the public has a chance to bid for these little gems […]
25th March 2011
Still finishing work for the figurative show at Scotlandart in Edinburgh opening on 7th April. Posting a sneak preview of one of the new drawings, Morning Glory. Apologies to anyone looking for me in the Herald the other week – I ended up on the cutting room floor – however I will be in there […]
8th March 2011
An extremely exciting week in McArthur Land. Not only am I launching the brand, spanking, new, shiny website but on this Saturday, 12th March, I will be featured in interview with Alison Campsie in the magazine supplement of the Glasgow Herald – page 5ish, I think, although I hear the photo’s pretty huge so you […]
8th February 2011
I’m working hard now for the final push on the pieces I will be exhibiting at the AAF in London 10th – 14th March. This is a rather rubbish photo of my latest offering, ” The Road Less Travelled” which will be making an appearance in London. It’s a big drawing more than 120cm wide. […]
31st January 2011
I spent the weekend up north getting back to nature in the wilds of the astonishingly beautiful motherland. Always on the job, I couldn’t leave my faithful model at home. The bold and brave Nikolai, dressed and ready for action popped out of the car and into the wilderness whenever requested and I got some […]
