Ian Kinnear

 The work I have selected for this exhibition concentrates largely on images inspired by elements encountered in the immediate surroundings of my studio and garden; images observed constantly and absorbed, distilled to be later painted in the studio.

‘Spring Planting’ for example was painted quickly and directly as a simple statement of the beauty , symmetry and graphic quality of a newly planted leek bed.

In contrast the two paintings, ‘ The Flood’ and ‘Into the Calm’ have their inspiration in ’The Great Flood’ from Edwin Morgan’s sequence of poems,‘Planet Wave’. Here I try to use the paint freely to express the threatening storm and the calm of the aftermath; the narrative moving across the painting from left to right ‘into the calm’.

1961 -65     Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art  Dundee D.A. Drawing and
Painting                                                                                                                                                                                

1965        Awarded David Murray Studentship.
Royal Academy Schools London

1965 -66     Dundee College of Education 

1966 -88   A period of Art teaching in Glasgow and the Scottish Highlands during which a parallel developing interest in ceramics led to the establishment of my studio at Insh near Kingussie.

 In 1988 I gave up teaching and established my present studio at Oathlaw, initially mainly working in ceramics. Over the
years painting has increasingly absorbed me and I have now given up ceramics to
concentrate full time on painting.