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I live and work in Broughty Ferry near Dundee, Scotland. I've always painted and I've worked as a full time artist since 1988 when I had my first solo show at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. Since then I have concentrated on painting the perceived landscape. |
| About the Artist | |
My aim is to interpret the outdoor environment in whatever way suggests itself when I am present in it. My starting point is always the actual scene at a specific time, and I tend to focus on the aspects of a landscape that are constantly changing like the sky and light, or movement in water to make a statement about this one moment in the same way that a memory might be formed. |
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After the Greatest Clouds
2009 |
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| "After the Greatest Clouds - The Sun" - Alan of Lille
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The Day Dawning
2009 |
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| A painting of dawn colours. I watch a lot of sunrisings with their clouds silhouetted like cut-outs against the blaze. The clouds can seem grey at first sight but they are not. The North Sea then is made from specks of coloured light and dark, each one reflecting an aspect of the sunrise or the remains of night behind the observer. |
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Study for Elemental Sunset
2009 |
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| Playing with fire again...It’s great to work on a theme like this and just push paint around until it creates its own light. I intend this to be a study for a large scale in the future. |
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Light for the River
2008 |
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| Symbolism associated with light and the sun run through every core belief of our species and make the act of painting these subjects much more than a technical exercise. The River in question is a mile wide outside my window and is a major influence on my work. |
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Cloud Composition
2009 |
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| I’m leaving the entire landscape behind here and concentrating the painting on the essential parts of what made this sky special. Like all my cloud paintings it is based on actual observed clouds
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Cloud Composition 3
2009 |
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| The latest work in a series of small studies focusing solely on cloud structure and light. I want to paint the observed light within and around each cloud in this series as though it was a tangible structure - able to be touched, responded to, appreciated and understood. The clouds in this series likewise - each cloud and each area of cloud in the sky has a structure, sometimes complex, sometimes simple.
It’s not always easy to interpret but it’ll be there if we take a moment and look hard enough.
I really want to paint clouds to look like they can be grasped, turned around, closely examined and then (of course) put back unharmed.
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Sunrise 11th September
2009 |
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| A larger studio painting derived from the oil sketch “Dawn 11th September” of the September sun rising over the North Sea.
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A Quiet Land
2009 |
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A painting of a sunset built up of undulations and slight variations of colour over the land
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Halliburton Hill
2009 |
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| The Scots Pines, remnants of the native Caledonian Forest on Halliburton hill in Perthshire. |
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First Call
2009 |
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| A further work based on a favourite theme of mine, exploring light and its effects on the human psyche.
On another level, like all my sky paintings, this work is an observation of a specific event in the play between sunlight and clouds.
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The Dimming of the Day
2008 |
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| It started with a fairly strange palette of quite unbalanced colours ie. an orange green, an orange red, a greenish blue, a warm violet and a cold blue. I didn’t use “central” colours at all untill the later stages when most of the painting was already established, so in the last stages, I hit it with a revised palette of each pure colour.
Keeping these in reserve until the later stages meant that I could tap the strength of each new colour to counterpoint the deliberately subdued larger areas. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Edinburgh College of Art, Drawing and Painting - 1971-75 Website - 2002 to Present For the past few years, I’ve concentrated on promoting and selling my own work from my website. I first built the website in 2002 as a means to show my paintings to as wide an audience as possible, and it has gone from strength to strength since then. Most of my work now consists of commissions and sales directly from the site. My interest in building a web site initially arose from a strong desire to actively represent myself as an artist through the “new” medium of the internet rather than the traditional, more passive route of relying on artist’s agents, galleries, or fate. Gallery Exhibitions Solo - Trinity Gallery, Arundel, 1996. Century Gallery, Henley on Thames, 1994. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 1988. The Lillie Gallery, Milngavie, 1988. The Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries, 1987. The Howarth Gallery, Accrington, 1987. Durness Visitor Centre, Durness, 1986 Joint Exhibitions - The Harbour Gallery, Broughty Ferry, Tayside (with Rikki Craig), 2002 The Howgate Gallery, Penicuik, Midlothian (with Tom Watt), 1990 Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness (with Rob Fairley), 1989 The Saltire Society, Edinburgh, (with Rob Fairley), 1976 Group Exhibitions include - The Harbour Gallery, Broughty Ferry, Tayside 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Queens Gallery, Dundee, 2000, 2001, 2002 Wills Art Warehouse, London, 1998 - 2002 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1997 Peter Hedley Gallery, Wareham, Dorset, 1995- 1997 The Howgate Gallery, Penicuik, Midlothian 1989, 1990 The Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath, 1995 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire, 1993 The Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey, 1994 The Macaulay Gallery, Stenton, 1988, 1989 The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 1988, 1989 The Hanover Gallery, Edinburgh, 1987 The Royal Academy, London, 1974 |
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| I intend to continue representing myself via my website www.kenbushe.co.uk and the internet. What started as an experiment for me is now established as the internet becomes increasingly accepted as a gateway to viewing and purchasing art. |
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