A pure land
By: Callum Innes, Thomas A. Clark
Contributors: Clark, Thomas A., 1944- contributor; OSL Contemporary (Oslo, Norway); i8 (Gallery)
Publisher: Circa; Antique Collectors' Club
Published: 2021
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781911422150
Subjects: Exhibitions; Abstract Watercolor painting; Scottish Watercolor painting; Abstract Painting; Scottish Painting
Description: Callum Innes is one of the few artists working in abstraction to include watercolour as a major part of his practice. As with many painters, his explorations in this medium form a parallel body of work, an activity taken on as a kind of 'break' from his other painting, with different circumstances, conditions and intentions. Innes has been making watercolours for more than 25 years. He began to explore the medium when he was asked to do a show at the Kunsthaus, in Zurich. He says: "I blithely said yes to an exhibition without ever having made a watercolour before. It caused a lot of stress at the time, but I gradually developed a way of working with paper and pigment. I am still making watercolours, although they have changed over the years, and now I realise that they inform the oil paintings more and more. When you place two pigments together, either opposite or complementary, and then dissolve them in water you achieve a completely new colour which only reveals itself on the paper. I am often surprised and disappointed in the same hour."
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held in 2021 at the OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway and the i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland.