Fronteer Art Fair – Chester
This weekend I’m showing some work at the Fronteer Art Fair at the Chester University gallery in the Forum shopping centre along with other artists. I’m mixing things up a little; showing some Structural Sea paintings and some drawings, as well as paintings made outside in my local Ilkley area and on the Fife coastContinue reading “Fronteer Art Fair – Chester”
The Jewel and the ship
During my residency in Cromarty, I spent a lot of time drawing, without worrying too much about a focussed line of enquiry or subject. Essentially, I just enjoyed the ebb and flow of looking and recording. One evening, we walked across the peninusula to a place on southern side of the Black Isle, called McFarquar’sContinue reading “The Jewel and the ship”
Drawing versus sketching – semantics?
A couple of weeks ago I followed Turner to the end of the Caledonian Canal at Monteith basin. On my phone I had a digital image of the drawings he made there just nine years after its opening in 1822 and I hoped to find some trace of those marks remaining in the landscape. TheContinue reading “Drawing versus sketching – semantics?”
Chris Relph Smith 