August | 2020 | Power in Place. Paintings of Scotland’s Seas.

Artist Janette Kerr currently has an online exhibition called State of the Sea. It’s well worth a visit and will encourage much contemplation.

Her work is powerful and very evocative of wild water, raucous waves, wind-slapping cagoule and the emotions of being at the edge, the Northern edge. She writes that ‘My paintings represent immediate responses to sound and silences within the landscape around me; they are about movement and the rhythms of sea and wind, swelling and breaking waves, the merging of spray with air, advancing rain and mist, glancing sunlight – elements that seem to be about something intangible.’.

The exhibition is at https://artnorth-magazine.com/janette-kerr

Only until 4^th September.

Dennis Buchan (b1937) worked in a studio at Arbroath harbour. He describes his paintings as follows (RSA website):

They are about living – emotional responses to environments and situations, always more romantic in stimulus than intellectual. Colour relationships, inspired by music, movement and change of space all have their place in the development of the pictorial image…They are not stories, but evocative manifestations – they are about living and reacting.

Buchan, Dennis Thorne; Above and below the Blue; Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council);

The North sea was in his mind, part of his discourse about what he was painting and where he was doing it. This painting links the sensuous experience of listening to music with proximity to that sea.

Power in Place. Paintings of Scotland’s Seas.

Monthly Archives: August 2020

Janette Kerr – Online exhibition

The North Sea in mind