John Slavin - Andorran Mountains on Paintings of Scottish Artist John Slavin
[John Slavin] has drawn and painted all his life and he is a serious student of drawing and painting. He has exhibited and sold in Scotland and England: at Visual Arts Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy, Sutton Gallery Edinburgh, Doubtfire Gallery Edinburgh, Glasgow Art Fair and Durham University. Totally he has held five solo exhibitions.
In recent years he has gradually exchanged North for South. Now his painting is rooted in the mountains of Andorra. On long climbs he makes pencil drawings on paper to be worked up in the studio using acrylic on canvas.
John Slavin’s direct speech: “From Andorra the eye can see beyond. It is a great advantage to have altitude and vista. Drawing is absolutely important to painting which is a distillation of drawing. In transferring information from pencil to paint there is an expansion. Painting is yin but perception is yang. In painting I test my drawing of the mountain; all its hypothetical supposition of what is to be in the painting. I attempt to integrate its information, already made, with the painting, yet to be made . . .
05/05/2016 to 05/05/2026
