The new exhibition in the Art and Design Library is Balance 2 by Scottish Fine Artist, Iain Patterson. Iain trained at Edinburgh College of Art, and later taught drawing and painting there for many years. He has exhibited widely across Scotland and Europe with an emphasis on Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary, and his long career has also seen him exhibit in Edinburgh with such luminaries as Richard Demarco, as well as at the Royal Scottish Academy.
This solo show in the Art and Design Library is a collection of selected abstract oil paintings that channel the artist’s interest in music and improvisation, and this is how he describes his artistic practice:
“My work seeks to express something through real and imagined experience and physicality. I don’t plan the images beforehand but rely on a certain spontaneous impulse and action. The method of drawing and painting has an emphasis on improvisation around a theme with technical means which are deliberately formalist, limited and simple. My primary influences come from the natural world and from music – improvised music.
The work aims to be as inventive as possible within quite deliberately constrained and traditional structures. The challenge for the artist is to make new and original art within these boundaries. Though abstract in appearance, both the drawings and paintings retain a strong organic and rhythmic presence.”
The exhibition opens on 21 May and runs until 28 June in the Art and Design Library. We hope to see you there!
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