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Ian Gordon Craig. British artist, working mostly in oils and acrylics with some ventures into video and photography. All works are for sale (e-mail address available), and exhibition ready. Beyond that, I have to say I don't put personal details on the internet. |
| About the Artist | |
I take my inspiration from the people and places of Midlands Britain, an area which has encapsulated in its time everything from Lord Byron, and the great Dukes, through to the canals and pits of the post Industrial Revolution. However, as 2009 begins, I find myself drawn more and more towards the challenges of portraiture, and even "abstraction". So, as you read this, it is very much a time of change for me. |
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Peggers, Nottingham
2007 |
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| Peggers was a pub in Nottingham. In more affluent times it was nicknamed "Pretty Windows". In the year since this was painted the building would seem to have closed down. |
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Skegness Cinema
2007 |
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| Skegness Tower Cinema and amusement arcade. I painted this a week before the fire. It shows how Skegness (once the most popular seaside resort for the working classes across the English Midlands), is frozen in time. |
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Sherwood Snow
2008 |
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| Sherwood Forest after a fall of snow. This particular oak tree stands beside the path leading to Robin Hood's tree "The Major Oak". |
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Colston Bassett Church
2008 |
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| This painting depicts the empty ruins of the Church of St Mary at Colston Bassett. |
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Perlethorpe Church
2008 |
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| Perlethorpe Church, Thoresby. In the foreground is the resting place of the Pierrepont family and their descendants, which included the Dukes and Earls responsible for establishing Thoresby Estate. |
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Fallen Tree
2008 |
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| Sherwood Forest has been a favourite place of mine to study, largely because of its historical legacy. The trees lend themselves to be used as metaphors for the human condition. |
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Portrait of Rosie
2009 |
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| Portrait of Rosie Abbott, Nottingham singer-songwriter. |
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Figure study by table lamp.
2009 |
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| Figure study by lamplight. A preparatory piece for subsequent painting(s). |
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Newstead Abbey
2008 |
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| Lord Byron's one time home, Newstead Abbey, remains a source of inspiration. |
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| Education and biography | |
| 2009 Patchings Open Exhibition, 2007 Thoresby Gallery, Nottinghamshire, 2007 Patchings Farm, Nottinghamshire, 2006 Thoresby Gallery, Nottinghamshire. 1992 Nottingham Artist Exhibition, Nottingham Castle. 1991 Nottingham Artist Exhibition, Bonnington Gallery. 1990 Nottingham Artist Exhibition, Nottingham Castle. 1986 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. 1986 Nottingham Artist Exhibition, Nottingham Castle. 1985 Nottingham Artist Exhibition, Nottingham Castle. 1982 "Showcase" One man exhibition, Nottingham Castle. 1980 Nottingham Artist's Exhibition, Midland Group Gallery. |
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| Website: uk.youtube.com/user/iangordoncraig | |
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