Oil on paper 33 x 23 cm
Late afternoon and the day starts to slow.
Mixed media on paper – 140 x 60 cm.
Looking north
Oil on panel – 30 x 23 cm
Get Lost.
In a few weeks time I am off on an artists residency to the village of Collemacchia which lies in the hills between Rome and Naples. It is run by The Museum of Loss and Renewal and I have been invited to come and work. I will be away for three weeks getting my self lost, literally. That is the reason I am going . To walk in the hills all the while watching out for scorpions, exploring what it means to get lost and my response to this. This might involve drawing, writing and film making. How does one get lost ? Do the stories I make enable me to find a way home ? I will try and keep in touch but if I don’t it’s because I am lost – emotionally or in actuality. It will be an adventure and I’m nervous and excited….. Rebecca Solnit writes – ‘ Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery.’
Laurel.
Mixed media on paper 90 x 50 cm.
March snow.
Oil on panel – 20 x 26 cm
Midwinter
Black crows rattle in the trees like dried peas in a tin. Bark scars pinch, scrafing, bleached and picked. Did you know the mouth of the burn grins baleen roots of trees, whistling a wind across the North Sea ? The silence of snow is coming.
Like walking in the rain and the snow when there’s nowhere to go.
Ink and charcoal on paper 23 x 33 cm.
Into the woods- a drawing workshop.
On Saturday 12th May I will be leading a drawing workshop with ‘Off the Rails Arthouse’ in Ladybank Fife. We will be walking, drawing and exploring local woodland and hopefully making some large and small monochrome works with paint and charcoal.
There is more information on the Off The Rails website-Â http://www.offtherailsarthouse.com if you are interested and might like to join us.
Thanks and happy valentines day to everyone !
The bones of winter.
Oil on wood – 92 x 60 cm
dominique cameron RSW 