5th September 2013
I’ll be exhibiting on my old stomping ground at the beginning of October, showing large oils from my time in Tuscany over the summer. These are the largest and most ambitious oils I have produced for many years and am very excited they are going to Spain to the SWAB international art fair in Barcelona […]
Running from September 14th, I will be showing new work on paper at the Fotheringham Gallery Figurative Exhibition in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, www.fotheringhamgallery.co.uk. These pieces were made out in Italy on the residency which I took part in during the summer – they have a distinctively Italian flavour! The drawing above is “Memory Lane”. There was some […]
4th July 2013
I’m on residency in deepest Tuscany at the moment, far from the madding crowds, residing in a rustic Room with a View (see below). I spent 6 months in Florence and surrounding area back in 1998 on an RSA scholarship in a riotous and heady cocktail of Italia, youth and bad behaviour and have only […]
3rd July 2013
Pastels are the name of the game for me out in Tuscany – a bit of colour in my life. This is the first in what will be a series of ten. A fruitful midnight swim in the marble pool was the starting point for the second. And my splendid model’s super fabulous red bikini […]
26th December 2012
It’s a been a relatively quiet year at McArthur Studios – I have been involved in other very time-consuming pursuits as well as art this year and 2012 has seen a move to Brighton. But, I’ve exhibited new drawings in two really successful art fairs in London and one in Amsterdam during 2012 and I am […]
22nd February 2012
I have been working hard and will be exhibiting new work at upcoming fairs. I had a lot of fun on Hampstead Heath getting the research material for this drawing, Over the Hill and Far Away. The very talented painter Caroline Walker is my model, and although she did complain of cold toes, I got […]
5th January 2012
Happy New Year one and all. I’ve just moved into a new studio at The Briggait in Glasgow’s Trongate after a fairly tumultous year involving a lot of travel and a rather unfortunate spell in Chinese state hospital. But I am now fully recovered and will be exhibiting a few new pieces at the Blackheath […]
17th November 2011
I will be showing work at the Easel Contemporary Christmas Event at Gosford House, Longniddry EH32 0PY, Thursday 17th November 5.30pm till 8.30pm and Friday 18th November 11am till 4pm.
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 […]
