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Spring 2014, Leith Gallery

5th March 2014

I am showing some new underwater drawings at the Leith Gallery, 65 The Shore, Edinburgh from Saturday 8th March through 14th April. Opening Hours Tues. – Sat. (12 – 4) www.the-leith-gallery.co.uk

Cameron Contemporary

4th March 2014

I’m delighted to be exhibiting some new work on paper with Cameron Contemporary Art in Hove from 8th March. The gallery was established in 2008 to promote and sell comtemporary British painting with a strong Scottish contribution. “Sussex: Land, City and Sea” is a mixed show which opens Saturay 8th March from 2 – 5. […]

Works on Paper Fair

8th January 2014

I am excited to be exhibiting new drawings from my “Heavenbound” Series and more at the Works on Paper Fair at the London Science Museum in South Kensington between 6th and 9th February, represented by Lilford Gallery. This continues to be one of the most interesting art fairs in London, bringing together more than 50 […]

SWAB!

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 […]

Fotheringham Gallery

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 […]

La Bella Toscana

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 […]

Splash

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 […]

2013!

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 […]

Upcoming Art Fairs

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 […]

Happy New Year!

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 […]

Easel Contemporary

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.

All Taped Up

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 […]

Supermarket Sweep

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 […]

Nappy Time

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 […]

Hai Sights

1st October 2011

Some of the sights around the Hood in the Hai.

Hai Times

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 […]

Lost in the Hai

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 […]

Bringing You Jochem Rotteveel!!!

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 […]

M50

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 […]

Shanghai Shuffle

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 […]