by Tad Deregowski
Brief Bio
I grew up in Aberdeen and studied Fine Art at Edinburgh University and College of Art in the 80s. I have returned this year to live in Aberdeen.
I`ve been painting these small, plein air paintings over the last fifteen years or so (they can be referred to as pochades) showing them fairly regularly, most recently at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil.
I like to travel and paint- the pictures engage with a diversity of locations, among them, North Africa, New York, Latin America and Scotland. The next big trip will, most likely, be to India.
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by Jenny Ross
Jenny Ross is a Scottish-Canadian artist living and working in Aberdeen, Scotland. She originally qualified in veterinary medicine and changed her career to a visual artist, working in this field for several years before studying painting at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. She uses a wide variety of media in her drawings, paintings and three-dimensional works and is especially interested in the interactions between media and their unplanned and exciting results. Her inspirations include the Scottish landscape and farmland where she lives, folklore and spiritual practices. Her work has been exhibited in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London and has won several awards.
Artist Statement:
Through painting and drawing I aim to map real and imagined spaces, drawn from my own experiences, dreams and written work. My work explores spiritual practices and rituals, pulling on both local and global contexts. I explore witchcraft in relation to landscape and the natural environment and sometimes the work has a tangible presence of animals and figures. My inspirations come from a wide range of sources including books, found images and the immediate landscape surrounding my home in North-East Scotland.
Walking with my thoughts is an important part of my process. My images are rarely planned beforehand as I prefer to react to the media and colours during the creation process. Mixing media excites me and I love this unpredictable and dynamic process. I have been making my own paint from found, natural pigments such as ash from fire, mushrooms and earth, this process being a ritual within the practice of making.
by Joyce Taylor
http://www.joycetaylorart.co.uk
Born and raised in Aberdeenshire, Joyce Taylor studied drawing and painting at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen where she was one of three students in her year who were awarded the Patrick Allan Fraser Hospitalfield Scholarship. It was during that summer she was drawn to the villages and harbours of the Angus coast. Coastal villages, boats and seascapes are still an inspiration for her work, especially her local villages of Pennan, Crovie and Gardenstown.
When driving conditions are poor, preventing her from getting to the coast, Joyce works in her rural studio on still life painting or works from sketches previously completed outdoors.
After several years teaching art and design in secondary schools, where she was a Faculty Head of Art Design and Technology, Joyce decided to take early retirement so she could concentrate on her own creativity, and she has recently returned to painting full time.
Joyce has had the privilege of exhibiting her work in solo exhibitions in the UK, France and Canada.
Her paintings can be found in corporate collections in Scotland and France and in private collections in UK, France, Qatar, Jamaica, Germany, Norway and Canada.
by Kymme Fraser
https://www.instagram.com/kymmefraserart/
https://www.facebook.com/kymmefraserart
I was born in Edinburgh, studied in Aberdeen and worked in Glasgow before returning to Aberdeen in the early 1990’s to work and raise a family. My early love of art and painting was rekindled here and after many courses, workshops and exhibitions, I have now given up full-time employment in order to concentrate on an art career.
I paint the Scottish land and seascapes in a modern, semi-abstract style in acrylic and acrylic inks. Paint is layered using brush and palette knife to create depth, interest and a sense of the beautiful coasts and countryside both here in the North East and more widely across Scotland.
I exhibit and sell work at galleries in the North East of Scotland including Larks Gallery, Ballater and Country Frames Gallery, Insch. I participate each year in the North East Open Studios event, either from my own home studio or in other various venues in Aberdeen. I am the Vice President of the Stonehaven Art Group and have exhibited at the annual exhibition in Stonehaven for a number of years, winning various awards. I am also a member of the Aberdeen Artists Society and participant in the Pittenweem Arts Festival.
by Gerard Stott
Gerard Stott: The Artist at Garage 10.
WEBSITE: https://garage10.work
A Short Film by the Granite Town Film Project, about me; The Artist at Garage 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eiVvIc-c6k
As the Artist at Garage 10, I paint both still life and explored subjects. My compositions are free to evolve during execution and so can take weeks to materialise to a point at which I’m ready to start painting, and they generally continue to evolve over the weeks that it takes me to complete the brush work.
Re-sketching my composed genre subjects over and over in pencil, allows my initial ideas to evolve, and some priorities to change, sometimes beyond all recognition of their origin. Through this process, I discover what it is that I want to paint. I believe that allowing this spontaneity reveals interesting insights into both myself, and what I thought I was painting. The discovery process reinforces my enjoyment of making a painting. I think this also helps me strive towards better work.
Where there is narrative in my pictures, it’s intended to be obvious. I don’t want to have to explain my paintings, and in a sense, I think that explaining them would be undermining the objective of creating them, so at the end of the day my paintings typically will have to speak for themselves.
I have a need to paint, which I really value, but I’m also grateful that I have enough talent to produce paintings that I feel are valid, and so far it seems that every painting has provided a new learning experience.
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