If I'm asked to describe the motivation behind my drawing and painting it usually involves the words "storytelling" and "narrative". My work has become increasingly figurative and focused on a human element so the challenge for me in spending a week alone drawing and painting at the Inshriach Bothy was trying to find stories to tell with few or no people about.
KATRINA VALLE & NIC RUE: Self-Directed Residency, 2013
REBECCA SHARP: Self-Directed Residency, 2014
LESLEY PUNTON: Self-Directed Residency, 2014
Stilled life with moving trees. I arrived during a week of gales. The Cairngorms are windy at the best of times, yet I’m accustomed to being on the brittle granite plateau where the combination of altitude and the persistence of the wind creates a sub arctic landscape, a place where plants hug the land tightly. However because of the wind’s excessive force and unpredictable cloud level, the snow covered plateau became, in essence, out of bounds.
RYAN MILLER & DEE CHANEVA: Self-Directed Residency, 2014
Everyone knows this is nowhere "Is this an art form? or are you a technician"
BIRTHE JORGENSEN, MICHAEL BARR, CONOR COOKE & EMIL LILLO: Self-Directed Residency, 2013
B: Birthe Jorgensen and her collaborators M: Michael Barr, C: Conor Cooke and E: Emil Lillo
CLARE BLACKBURNE: Self-Directed, 2014
PENELOPE DIAZ: Self-Directed, 2014
I AM NOT A MYTH. El Trauco is a creature that inhabits the woods and forests of Chiloe, an island in the South of Chile. Typical characteristics of this figure is small stature with stubbed feet. Usually his clothing is made up of sticks and stones found in the surrounding woods which he lives in.
ALISTAIR GRANT, EWAN MCCLURE & SCOTT MCCLURE: Self-Directed Residency, 2014
www.ahgrant.co.uk Explored, hiked, slid, jumped, tracked, got lost (a lot), climbed, inspected, sat, dwelled, observed, chopped, dragged, split, roasted, baked, read, jotted, drew, filmed, recorded.
ANNA KING: Self-Directed Residency, 2013
I spent my week at the bothy making sketchbook work, with lots of thinking time - things that I know are so important to my practice, but that can often get sidelined with the pressures of making finished work. It felt like a proper wee sanctuary, the silence and solitude giving space to think, bringing priorities into focus, clarifying ideas. I loved it.