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Category Archives: collage
Sea Pottery Collage Work: West Coast Meets East Coast.
A selection of collage work is currently being displayed and is for sale in the Seagull Gallery, Gourock. The layered panels are inspired by the designs on seashore pottery fragments found by myself and collected. The pieces are from … Continue reading
Sea Pottery Collages.
I have a collection of fragments of Victorian pottery which I found when beachcombing on the stone and pebble shore at Inveraray, a town situated on Loch Fyne, a sea loch, in the west coast of Scotland. The pottery has … Continue reading
Posted in art and design, Beachcombing, collage, Exhibitions, Sea Pottery, visual art
Tagged art, collage, collage art, exhibitions, Havelock Walk
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Glasgow Tenements Fabric Collage
Feeling very Glaswegian and Scottish today! This is a photograph of hand and machine embroidered fabric collage depicting a Glasgow tenement facade and a gable end. The tenement was modelled from a building in Mount Florida, a Southside district near … Continue reading
Art Made Now :Woman Rated Collages
These collages were completed for a submission for the Royal Academy Summer Show. The theme of the show is ‘Art Made Now.’ I made an anagram of this title resulting in ‘Woman Rated.’ This being the centenary of some women … Continue reading
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Art Work Inspired By The Arlington Baths
Using the beautiful mosaic centre of the floor at the old water fountain in the Turkish Suite as inspiration, this unfinished ( I’m still working on it…) circular design depicts the colours of the tiny tiles which are a variation … Continue reading
Other Artwork Inspired by The Arlington Baths
This sequence of images shows the progression of a watercolour design inspired by the coloured glass stars on the ceiling of The Turkish Suite. Also featured in the painting are several of the Minton tile designs seen on the floor … Continue reading
ARTchitecture Exhibition at The Arlington Baths from 1st December 2017
On Friday 1st December, The Arlington Baths Club hosted the opening event of the ARTchitecture Exhibition in the club’s Reading Room. Chris and Charlie, my good friends, assisted in curating the show with me. By the preview opening time in … Continue reading
Glasgow Society of Women Artists New Works at The Lillie Gallery 6th October 2017
My collages were submitted and selected for this group exhibition last autumn. My contribution was of two small collages that featured designs from the Parthenon in Athens. The photographs were taken during a recent pilgrimage to The Acropolis. I also … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Architecture and Design, ARTchitecture, Athens, collage, Exhibitions, Glasgow, The Acropolis, The Parthenon, Uncategorized, visual art
Tagged architecture, Athens, collage, Greece, The Acropolis
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Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson LINES OF THOUGHT Bicentenary Exhibition at The Lighthouse.
From 18th August until 8th October 2017, The Lighthouse in Glasgow was host to the ‘Lines Of Thought’ exhibition celebrating the genius and the bi-centinary of the birth of architect Alexander Thomson. The exhibition could be viewed in Gallery One … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, Alexander Thomson Bicentenary Celebration, Alexander Thomson Society, Architecture and Design, Buildings, collage, Exhibitions, Holmwood Villa, Lines Of Thought Exhibition, Minton Floors, National Trust for Scotland, Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture, The Lighthouse
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ARTchitecture Exhibition and Designs On Japan pop-up exhibition At Cass Art Glasgow
In June 2017, Cass Art in Glasgow city centre hosted a solo exhibition of my kaleidoscopic collages inspired by architecture. I was joined by Christine Shaw who’s pop- up exhibition was inspired by the art and design of Japan. Chris … Continue reading