Stravaig 2 - Scottish centre For Geopoetics Online Magazine
April 6th, 2013 Doug
The latest issue of Stravaig is now available online.
Click on the link to read the latest issue
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BBC’s Your Pictures - Song of the Clyde (Tin Fish Therenody)
December 21st, 2012 Doug
Song of the Clyde (Tin Fish Therenody)
I was very pleased to find out that my painting ‘Song of the Clyde’ has been included in the BBC project Your Paintings,
where they are cataloguing the art work in public galleries and museums throughout the U.K.
Click on this link to see this and many other paintings included in this fabulous scheme.
New Website Page For Guga Stone Drawings
April 12th, 2012 Doug
Hope you can take some time to view the new website page for the Guga Stone drawings.
And watch the page over the next few weeks for more images to accompany Donald S. Murray’s superb writing.
Click on the Guga Stone button on the menu bar above to view the drawings.
New Scottish Centre For Geopoetics Website
August 3rd, 2011 Doug
Great to see the launch of the new website of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics.
Follow this link to find out more about Kenneth White, geopoetics and the work of the group.
Spring Lament - Guest Post on ‘Ink, Sweat, and Tears’ webzine
April 30th, 2011 Doug
My assemblage from the Stations sequence, ‘Spring Lament’, is feature with two poems by Anne Berkeley and Caroline Carver
on the prose and poetry webzine, Ink, Sweat, and Tears.
The magazine, edited by poet and visual artist Helen Ivory, regularly features excellent poetry and prose by many of the countries leading writers.
‘that elusive clarity’ - Guest Post
April 24th, 2011 DougThis weekend I have had the pleasure of being the guest contributor on poet Kona Macphee’s blog ‘that elusive clarity’.
Click on this link to read the two features, ’six things’ and ‘Sunday best’.
They were great fun to do (more difficult than you would think) and really got the old grey matter workiing!
And if you can, please take some time to follow the link to Kona’s website, featuring her excellent work as a poet.
I would highly recommend her recent collection ‘Perfect Blue’.
Art Propelled - Robyn Gordon’s blog
January 26th, 2011 Doug
Moon - Susan Barnes
mixed media on panel
48 x 48 inches
Several of my works have been included in a new blog post by South African artist, Robyn Gordon, entitled Slate, Sea and Sky.
Please take time to read this and other posts on Robyn’s excellent and informative blog, and find out more about her own beautiful carvings.
Click on this link to view Art Propelled.
Guest Artist - Robyn Gordon
September 12th, 2010 Doug
One of the interesting benefits of the internet has been the increased opportunities to see the work of artists from around the world. Through the use of websites and blogs, artists, writers, musicians and other makers have been able to bring their work to the widest possible audience.
In a recent blog post, South African artist Robyn Gordon discussed the use of boat motifs in a selection of artists work, including my Pocket Noost assemblage.
Robyn’s own fascinating work is layered with symbolism, both personal about her own families story, and of more traditional images and objects depicting South African history and culture
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” As a child on the farm I loved the outdoors. I loved to touch and feel nature in my hands. The smoothness of acorns and pebbles, the roughness of pine bark, the hollowness of birds nests …. anything tactile under my fingertips. At a young age I commandeered my mom’s unused carving chisels and I found that I could create many tactile qualities in the wood by chipping, gouging, whittling and sanding. This was a thrilling discovery!
Now I carve wooden totems and panels, incorporating wire, beads and found objects. Through my work I tell the story of my life in South Africa. The niche carvings hold objects that are of the land, symbols of Africa and symbols of my British ancestry. The totems “speak” of legends that have been passed down from one generation to the next. They are meditative pieces which bring me a great sense of peace. It is an added joy when other people feel this quality in my work. “
It has been a pleasure to see Robyn’s work; there are may common threads and images that I can recognise in my own art. Her work has a very strong sense of place, and I think that is why it will speak to many artists from other parts of the world dealing with subjects that tap into our shared life and cultural experiences.
To see more of Robyn’s fascinating work, follow this link to her website
Robyn’s blog can be read at http://artpropelled.blogspot.com/
Online Catalogue
February 21st, 2010 Doug
Screen shot of the new online catalogue
The online catalogue I have been developing is now available via the button on my website home page.
It features images of some of my assemblages and drawings, along with notes and sketchbook pages showing how the work was conceived and developed.
Many, many thanks go to my website designer John Keiller, for his hard work and skill in producing the site.
To view the catalogue here, click on this link.
