Grounding: exhibition opens tomorrow

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Pochades from Pushkar (above) and Jaipur

Grounding is opening tomorrow at 3pm. It includes eleven of my paintings, mainly from India alongside pots by Jenny Ozwell and canvases by Jane Rutherford. The hanging is very nice, thanks mainly to Mark Haddon: I will post further images shortly.

The exhibition will also make John Eccleston`s short story, En Plein Air, available for the first time from Realm of Stucco press.

Do come.

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Gallery 5595, Portobello, Edinburgh, Exhibition with Jane Rutherford

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The Forest Edge at Gallery 5595, Portobello, Edinburgh

 5595 Gallery A-board

Paintings were taken from frames and passepartouts and fixed directly onto the walls.  This was a considerable improvement on showing work framed as it allows the pictures to "breathe". Of course this is a way of showing work which is impractical in most situations as the painting isn't protected. 

Two paintings were shown in their carriers. The paintings were both sold with the carriers. The carriers arouse considerable curiosity and admiration.

 Five Latin American paintings

 Three Scottish pochades (left) with two of Jane Rutherford`s works

Trees, River Kelvin, Glasgow, in carrier SOLD

Warehouses, Glasgow, with a painting by Jane Rutherford

Paintings from Peru (left and Brazil) both SOLD

Two Peruvian pochades.

That on the right, of the gorge in Chivay is sold  SOLD

A seascape from Oban SOLD

A grove, SOLD

A small pochade from Puno, Peru (lady in a red skirt) SOLD

Write-up- this text was presented on this site in Auguse.

Sales were good and the exhibition was popular, visited by over 800 people over two weekends. 

I received considerable feedback, all positive.

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Thanks to Mark Haddon and Jane Rutherford of Gallery 5595.

 Thanks to Paul Kier for help with hanging this show.

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The Forest Edge- New paintings from Latin America and Scotland by Tadeusz Deręgowski and Jane Rutherford

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I am showing twelve paintings with Jane Rutherford in Portobello at 5595 Gallery,in September, in Edinburgh. It`s part of Porty Art Walk event. 

7th, 8th 13th, 14th and 15th of September.

 Between 11am and 5pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. 

 5595 Gallery is located just off Portobello promenade in

 the lane called John Street Lane West that runs between

 (and parallel to) Pittville Street and John Street. 

It has a blue door.

Gallery 5595, John Street Lane West,

Edinburgh, EH15 2EG

 This is a link to this Exhibition and gallery here-

http://gallery5595.com/project/the-forest-edge

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A trip to Scotland and Canterbury

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Argyll and Bute

My pictures sold well at the last Society of Scottish artists exhibition and I want to produce more Scottish works. These will all be larger- about 30 x 25 cm.

Hence Oban in August, a small, touristic town on the West Coast that should provide, within easy reach, a good variety of views. I`ll also visit Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen, and in the south, Canterbury and London.

I`ll be showing work with Jane Rutherford at the Porty Art Walk festival, in Portobello near Edinburgh, where Jane and her husband Mark Haddon have a gallery (6-15 September).

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Witchery

IN relation to this series of photos two things come to mind- how Charles Manson urged his followers to create "witchy" objects using found items when they went on their killing spree. He is and was totally mad, of course, but it it hard to deny the aesthetic force of his imagery. This, much more than his ideas explains his enduring interest.

The second though that comes to mind is the memory of an afternoon spent twenty years ago at The Glen in Innerleithan, near Peebles, Scotland with Mark Haddon and others making sculptures out of bits and pieces of twig, the idea being that these sculptures should be so subtle that they are almost not discernible as sculptures at all- they lay at the interface between art and nature.

Regarding that memory, isn't it funny how time "telescopes" so some events or conversations are as fresh in the mind as if they happened yesterday, while others, ostensibly more serious fade (my first marriage, for instance, which I never give a moments thought to)?