The Open Eye Gallery's annual Christmas exhibition opens online today! It runs until 23 December, and my four music drawings are on show.
I'm taking a break from social media at the moment. I was thinking of it as a vacation, but that doesn't sound quite right. It sounds as though I'm vacant or empty, but in fact I am exploring new directions and I can't do social media at the same time.
In the mean time, David Zwirner Gallery in Manhattan is showing a rare series of 8 watercolours by the wonderful Hilma af Klint, artist and spiritualist. Tree of Knowledge No.3 (shown above) can be seen, with others, on Hyperallergic, courtesy David Zwirner. They are all amazing and I'd give my back teeth to see that show! Unfortunately I'm not on vacation in Manhattan, just in the spare room here in Fife. Not so glam. Four works trimmed and mounted on boards, details written up on the back, and all ready to go. Last week B drove me to Edinburgh to drop them off at the Open Eye Gallery in Abercromby Place. I would normally take the train to pick up the mount boards and then again a few days later to deliver the completed works, but I sprained my ankle rather badly three weeks ago and the walks to and from the train stations, although short, were out of the question. A shame, because I look forward to these annual trips. They have a sense of occasion and I never tire of the wonderful crossing of the River Forth; I'm also at leisure to stop for a chat with the wonderful Open Eye people, and to wander around and ogle all the beautiful art when I get there. Before the pandemic the Edinburgh Christmas German market was open at the time of delivery, too, which I absolutely loved.
Travel by car was an altogether different experience, however ... |
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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