edge | 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.

The photograph shows an artwork projected onto an old Edinburgh building to celebrate the New Year of 2020, a transcendent time for many Scots. It is ostensibly about the country’s coastline, ‘ten thousand miles of edge’. However, this is Nelson’s monument. It stands on Calton hill, overlooking the Scottish capital, and McKee makes a convincing case for it being a declaration in 1810 of Scotland’s identity within the British state. It is interesting that a memorial to the iconic British admiral was illuminated with images and poetry that portrayed a solitary island Scotland, linked to Europe by seas; the unionist stone transformed by an autonomous light. It may also be significant.

Power in Place. Paintings of Scotland’s Seas.

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Janette Kerr – Online exhibition

Ten Thousand Miles of Edge’. Calton Hill. Edinburgh. January 2020.