Acrylic on a cradled board. 2023, 20 x 25 cm or 8 x 10 inches
SMALL PAINTINGS
KITH
KITH, 2023, acrylic and pencil on cradled gesso board, 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm.
One of my lost in the forest series with a horned figure, or are they just wearing a hat with ears? Related to “Sometimes that holy feeling met me in the forest”. The trees are from a walk earlier this year in woodland in Murthly, near the Tay in Perthshire. There are several layers on this, it was not easy to resolve.
The edges are painted blue, and it doesn’t need a frame. FOR SALE via Artists Support Pledge, £220 plus shipping. Contact me via the link in the menu for more info.
KEMPT
Acrylic on canvas-covered board, 2023, 30 x 30 cm. Example frame only.
On Lucklaw hill in North Fife there is a lovely wilderness of mixed trees and heath, some of it almost seems like Old Caledonian forest with blaeberry and Scots pine. There are larch growing naturally and large birch trees. On the way down off the top there are several large beech and sycamore with divided trunks making shady bare places with multiple branches and deep canopy. Here you might meet a roe deer.
KERNEL
Acrylic on canvas-covered board, 2023, 30 x 30 cm. Example frame only.
Painted in the slightly chilly studio on a late September afternoon, listening to the Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak – cannibalism – or was it? – 120 thousand years ago, sudden climate warming to warmer than today, temperate forests covering what had been chilly plains full of prey herds. Here’s our temperate forest with our hunter, in Scotland’s old oak woods at Kinclaven, not a cannibal though he does like red meat. Kernel, many-layered, from our walk at Kinclaven, Perthshire, in ancient woodland near the Tay.
UNHOLY
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 20.3 x 15.24 cm.
This one is a little bit bigger, a second thought about this landscape, what it holds and what it is. The ambiguous horned figure comes from an early stage of the much bigger painting, Sometimes that holy feeling meets me in the forest.
KNOLL
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 17.8 x 12.7 cm. Sample frame only.
This one is so tiny! It’s very interesting to work on such a small scale.
KERB
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 20.3 x 20.3 cm
Trying a painting with no figures this time, a low branch extended across, dotted with pale lichen patches, in the ancient woods at Kinclaven. This one is framed.
KEEP
Acrylic on canvas covered board, 2023, 20.3 x 20.3 cm.
Painted over many layers of abstract modulation and meditation, this resolved itself from our walk at Kinclaven, Perthshire, in ancient woodland near the Tay. It is already in an off-white frame.
KINDLING
Acrylic on panel, 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm. From our summer walk at Kinclaven, Perthshire, in ancient woodland near the Tay.
The deep edges are painted a similar colour to the mix of blue and purple in this painting, and Kindling is scratched into thick paint at the bottom.
