tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10046661758916897682024-02-20T21:26:07.465-08:00Annette Edgar: Painter"IDEAS ARE LIKE SNOWFLAKES. SOME MELT BEFORE THEY MELT TO THE GROUND..."
I am a painter who lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Painting is, to me, a way of life.
My official website is www.annetteedgar.net but I will be using this blog as a place to set down ideas and show work in progressAnnette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-11204412865919969922011-10-13T04:01:00.000-07:002011-10-13T04:01:59.188-07:00DATE FOR THE DIARY...<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>ANNETTE EDGAR & PAUL BENNETT</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">RENOWNED Scottish artist </span><span style="font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Annette Edgar </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">brings a blast of heat, light and intense saturated colour to the west coast of Scotland when she exhibits for the first time at Argyll’s art haven, the Tighnabruaich Gallery, from October 21 until November 13.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Artist, writer and critic Jack McLean says of her work: <i>‘I know of no other Scottish painter whose paintings burn with such colour. You come away from an Annette Edgar exhibition with a suntan.’</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The new work in this exhibition from Glasgow-based Annette has been heavily influenced by recent trips to Mauritius and Sardinia. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Treedance, Mauritius (oil on board 76x86cm) by Annette Edgar, £2250 </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tighanbruaich Gallery owner,</span><span style="font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Penny Graham-Weall, says of this show: <i>‘It’s a great pleasure and privilege for us to bring the work of two such different artists under one roof here in Argyll. They are at very different stages of their respective careers, but there is a real vigour and energy to both artists’ work.’</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>The gallery is situated in the heart of this beautiful village on the Kyles of Bute. A 90-minute drive from Glasgow, the Tig Gallery, as it is affectionately known, sells original paintings by Scottish artists and holds six exhibitions throughout the year, with occasional pop-up shows in Glasgow. The gallery also specialises in a range of glass, jewellery and sculpture by makers based all over Scotland.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Tighnabruaich Gallery, Argyll, PA21 2DR</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span></div>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-54981250206866681242011-10-03T06:39:00.000-07:002011-10-03T06:44:03.523-07:00One idea to anotherCovered in paint as I write - taking a break from the studio. My walls are covered in wet paintings in which the figure has reappeared. I am on the journey of discovery as one idea often opens up another and so leads to many surprises<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me in my studio - the paintings in the background were for an exhibition in Kelvingrove Art Gallery inspired by the new Riverside Museum on the River Clyde. One idea flowed into another, with unexpected results. Even for me!</td></tr>
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Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-81815880823507618652011-09-09T08:46:00.000-07:002011-09-09T08:46:09.384-07:00NEW WORK ALERT...I'm exhibiting new work next weekend at Tighnabruaich @ No 6 in Glasgow's west end.<div><br />
</div><div>This is a fantastic new venture almost on my doorstep and sees the Tighnabruaich Gallery bring their highly personable approach to selling original art to the big city. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Bridget Sim is opening up the garden level apartment of her townhouse at 6 Princess Terrace, Glasgow, G12 9JW for the weekend and thereafter by appointment.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Tel: 0141 334 3800 or 01700 811681 for more details and/or an invite.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Back to the drawing board....</div><div><br />
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</tbody></table></div>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-37906026311625488172011-08-30T04:29:00.000-07:002011-08-30T04:29:28.279-07:00Studio WallI'm busy in the studio today painting.<br />
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Some news is that I'm exhibiting work in a lovely new gallery in the west end of Glasgow called Tighnabruaich @ Number 6. It's located in the basement of 6 Princes Terrace in Hyndland and it opens on the weekend of 17/18 September. Thereafter by appointment by calling Bridget Sim on 07789 003126.<br />
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For more details see: <a href="http://www.tig-gallery.com/glasgow.php">www.tig-gallery.com/glasgow.php</a><br />
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In the meantime, here's a wee sample of my studio wall. A friend took it recently during a visit.<br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>ARTIST PROFILE: ANNETTE EDGAR</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>By Jan Patience </b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Published in The Herald Arts supplement, 13/12/08</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bee Dwellings by Annette Edgar 61x71 cm oil/linen 2011</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">AS IS the case with the best paintings, artists rarely know where the work is heading before it reaches the end point. It’s a bit like a conversation, or a friendship. Real life is seldom tidy. We are all seeking something perhaps without knowing what it is and, in-between times, stuff happens.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When Annette Edgar talks about her paintings, which blaze with colour, energy and depth, she brings up the conversational metaphor several times. “You never have a conversation on just the one level,” she says. “There is always something underlying. We may be saying amusing and witty things, yet underneath this is perhaps a underlying sadness.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Although Edgar peppers our own conversation with references to her three young grandchildren, you sense that her own inner child is still trying to make sense of the complexities of the world through her vigorous abstract work or poetically charged, tightly structured landscapes. Her first memories of putting pen to paper and discovering the magic of creation, came many Christmases ago, when she was just four years old.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“My mother died when I was just four,” she explains. “My father had died when I was a baby, so I was left with my older siblings; all young adults. Whenever I asked for my mother, they said she had gone to heaven. That first Christmas after she died, I was given a lot of presents, probably as a way of trying to compensate. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“One of the presents was a set of coloured pencils and crayons and I remember being just fascinated by making marks and patterns. I saw patterns everywhere; from the way droplets of rain would form on hedges to the grass rustling in the breeze. I used to draw pictures of going up to heaven, past the fluffy white clouds like sheep to see my mother.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The little girl grew into a woman fascinated by the power of what she calls ‘mark making’. Her inherently poetic nature harnessed the power of a formal art school training to take that onto levels and places she is still investigating with vigour several decades on. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Edgar worked in shops and offices and had two children before the muse that was always pushing her on, led her to take a higher in art in her late twenties. She was accepted for Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1980. There, she benefited hugely from the febrile atmosphere she found there, working with tutors such as Barbara Rae, James Robertson and Sandy Moffat. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Since 1990, Edgar has painted full-time and there are distinct periods in her artistic life that echo her concerns of the time. Around 15 years ago, she became caught up about environmental issues and so the figure began to appear in a garden or lush landscape. When her friend, the writer and art critic Q. Gordon Smith died in 1997, she embarked on a series of ‘mourning paintings’.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Since then, the figure has been less prominent in her paintings, but recently, following a trip to the colour-spattered island of Mauritius earlier this year, there has been another slight shift in direction, with figures reappearing set against what she describes as the ‘music in the land’. Initially, her Mauritius work was an immediate joyful response to the vibrancy of the culture and the landscape she found there, but recently there has been a pulling back into more abstract paintings.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Edgar is a true painter in that she uses the medium fluidly and unashamedly. “Conceptual art has its place,” she says, “but painting does it for me. When I’m painting, I’m painting to work out how I feel. The ideas develop as I paint. My paintings are about life and celebrating life.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-64251288325272570612011-08-23T02:46:00.000-07:002011-08-23T02:46:30.145-07:00Journeys and Pausing<blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Sometimes she describes her work as a journey through life or the world. Perhaps the paintings could be thought of as a short pause in that journey"</span></i></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Cyril Gerber, 2001 </div><br />
During the summer months, I've been in and out of the studio in between a couple of holidays in Sardinia and Mallorca.<br />
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I always come back brimming with thoughts and ideas which inevitably find their way into my work.<br />
About which, more at a later date...<br />
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In the meantime, the other day, I was looking out some old exhibition cards for someone who was interested in my work. She picked out a description (quoted above) in one of them which, 10 years on I still think applies to my painting.<br />
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It was for a solo exhibition with The Compass Gallery in Glasgow, called <b>PLACES You Always Knew Were There</b>.<br />
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Gallery owner, Cyril Gerber, talked to me a lot about my work in the run up to this show and his words on the invitation card were well chosen.<br />
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Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-68653448571512779682011-06-28T07:07:00.000-07:002011-06-28T07:09:06.719-07:00At Home ... with Me<a href="http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=Kq90n1C64Ao0&EID=e808c2b8-07cc-4d0d-a307-d27b4e6686df&skip=true">I was featured in Scotland on Sunday's At Home magazine at the weekend. What do you think of the hair? (Click on this to peek inside...)</a>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-49046052840733770552011-06-21T05:28:00.000-07:002011-06-21T05:33:55.228-07:00Henley's in The Herald...<div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I was chuffed last weekend to get a mention in The Herald newspaper's galleries page. Jan Patience included The Bohun Gallery's summer exhibition in the round-up of who's showing what and where. </span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Summer Boathouse, oil on linen, 24"x24", currently on show at The Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames</td></tr>
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</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Here's what Jan wrote about Bohun: </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">MANY small private galleries in the south of England exhibit work by leading Scottish painters and while these artists are not exactly prophets without honour in their own land, it’s clear that they are rated very highly by those responsible for the hanging.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The Bohun Gallery in Henley-on-Thames is one such gallery. Its associate director, Joanna Cartwright points out this year alone, they have had a show by George Donald, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Crawfurd Adamson.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now, for their summer exhibition, they have brought together a clutch of fine Scottish artists, including Annette Edgar, Elizabeth Blackadder, Shona Barr, Marj Bond, James McDonald, Jennifer McRae and June Redfern. They are in fine company, alongside the likes of Maggie Hambling, Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan. Fedden’s delightful oil painting </span>Over the Sea to Skye reveals a mature artist whose creative fire shows no sign of dimming. </div><div style="color: #333233; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Glasgow-based Annette Edgar is another mature artist who is making magic with a paintbrush lately. Her new work, such as Summer Boathouse, is ablaze with colour and purpose, as well as a poetic sense of place.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The Bohun Gallery’s mixed summer exhibition presents a rare opportunity to see such an well-regarded group of artists under one roof. With a wide variety of paintings, watercolours and prints produced over the last three decades in a range of genres, the exhibition offers a strong overview of some of the best of British art.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Gallery director Pat Jordan Evans says: “One of the pleasures of a show like this is the chance to experience the sheer range of approaches by British professional artists. The broad spectrum of work ensures that there is something here to appeal to every taste, which has made our summer exhibition a favourite with gallery regulars.”</span></div>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-44902277828341444232011-06-17T01:22:00.000-07:002011-06-17T01:22:49.898-07:00Not so Still Life<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A busy day at home - it's always a busy day at home and in my head - but I have a photographer and journalist coming this morning from Scotland on Sunday to do a piece on my house and studio.<br />
Off to get the make-up on...Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-16130506568124396052011-06-06T12:17:00.000-07:002011-06-06T12:17:43.506-07:00Rosann's PlaceI always tell my friend Rosann that wherever she lives, be it Italy or Dennistoun, there is a feeling of 'Rosann's village' about it.<br />
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This is my response to that phenomenon.<br />
Rosann Cherubini is a talented sculptor and a really good friend. This painting is currently on show and for sale at the Catto Gallery on Hampstead.<br />
To find out more see:<br />
<a href="http://www.catto.co.uk/">www.catto.co.uk</a>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-85518858731648038042011-06-02T02:43:00.000-07:002011-08-25T05:05:04.821-07:00Clyde Connections<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was asked to contribute to Homes & Interiors Scotland magazine last year around the time The River Runs Through It exhibition took place in Glasgow's Kelvingrove.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The feature was called <i>I Love This</i> and the format is that someone is asked to talk about a place that they love and why.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I chose the River Clyde because it has flowed through my life in many ways. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here's what I wrote:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The top deck of a bus was one of the best places to spot boats and cranes, which looked like prehistoric monsters moving slowly and silently in the sky. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Grey was the predominant colour, and the weeping skies added a mournful quality to most days. Eventually, the sky would turn blue and the sun would shine silver and gold on the river, with the promise of excitement and possibilities.</span></span></div><div style="color: #1a1a18; font: 9.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I was four, my Uncle Robert took me on to a ship he was working on. The boat was in dock; but, standing on the pier, looking at the height of the gangway, I was terrified. Once on board (wearing a sailor’s hat), I was enthralled. Unfamiliar smells and sounds abounded. Wet rope. Oil. Saltiness. Men shouting. Clashing and bashing. Horns sounding. Bells ringing. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At that point, I fell in love with the Clyde.</span></span></div><div style="color: #1a1a18; font: 9.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Light reflections and shapes of the river and sea have been an ongoing inspiration in my painting. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While I remember the Clyde as being silvery grey, I recall the people who worked at the yards being the same colour. They worked long and hard and got dirty in the process. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, a new generation works in a different way in post-industrial Glasgow, but I hope there is room for continuation and possible expansion of shipbuilding.</span></span></div><div style="color: #1a1a18; font: 9.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Driving into Glasgow via the Kingston Bridge, it’s incredible to see the spread of changes that have occurred in the last few decades. It is – and always has been – a great river. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>When other things become a memory, it will still be there. It lives. </i></span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>�</i></span></span></div>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-1510964827101661332011-06-01T05:26:00.000-07:002011-06-01T05:26:19.993-07:00The Riverside and Sundry TributariesLast year, I was asked to take part in a major exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow called The River Runs Through It.<br />
It was organised by the artist Charles Jamieson and arts journalist Jan Patience. They asked around 30 artists at various stages of their respective careers to respond to the new transport museum being built on the site of the old Pointhouse shipyard on the banks of the Clyde.<br />
This spectacular building designed by the famous architect Zaha Hadid, has been called 'Glasgow's Guggenheim' and it opens to the public on June 21.<br />
Here's a selection of work which I made for The River Runs Through It.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last Ferry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clydeside Brightsparks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">River River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hearts in Tangleweed</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Annette Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07439976848420336251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004666175891689768.post-60022850879004323912011-06-01T04:32:00.000-07:002011-06-01T04:32:34.017-07:00Take A Punt to Henley-on-Thames...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Summer Boathouse, oil on linen, 24X24in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lerici Shore, oil on linen, 28X32in</td></tr>
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I have just sent work down to Bohun Gallery in Henley-on-Thames for their Contemporary & Modern British Painting summer exhibition.<br />
I'm in good company. They are showing work byMary Fedden, Julian Trevelyan, Jennifer McRae and Maggi Hambling, to name just a few.<br />
The exhibition opens on June 14 and lasts until August 13.<br />
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