Price of Fish: Ullapool.

Fishing boat in the harbour at Ullapool, west coast of Scotland.

The Price of Fish: UL7, oil on canvas, 75cm x 50cm.

Updates on other Price of Fish canvases, to be found at the Found Gallery, Dunbar.

More Fish.

Two new 'Price of Fish' canvases.

Hopefully to be for sale at the Found Gallery, Dunbar, soon.

BF Blue & Gold, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 60cm.

CN6 Blue, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 60cm.

Collected Works

At present there are five more 'Price of Fish' canvases in the studio* in varying stages of completion and I started wondering what they would all look like together. 

I think this is all of them, including the dredger that kicked the whole idea off. A pleasing number of these are sold and dispersed across the country, and it's still an odd feeling to know that I might never see them again but someone somewhere is seeing them - and hopefully, enjoying them - every day. 

It's an idea I don't seem to be getting tired of; it's really hit a nerve with me, and, it would seem, other people too.

*Spare room.

Rust

Back to the joys of rust and weathered paint.

The Price of Fish: BK Black & Green, oil on canvas, 50cm x 60cm.

 

The Price of Fish: Grey and Green.

KY grey and green, oil on canvas, 46cm x 60cm.

Looking Forward ---->

The Price of Fish: Prospection. Oil on canvas, 50cm x 60cm.

Prospection, the latest in the 'Price of Fish' series. It's going to be available in the Found Gallery, Dunbar, along with a companion piece 'KY, Grey & Green,' which is titled but just lacking some finishing touches.


I can't recommend the Found gallery enough, not just because they have the pleasing habit of selling my work and asking for more, but because of the beautiful work on display. Go in for a look if you're in or near Dunbar.


Update: it's now in the Found Gallery. The FOUND GALLERY, Dunbar High Street. Ideal Christmas present for the ferrugipiscophile in your life.

The Price of Fish: BK Blue & White. Oil on board,  40cm x 40cm.

Another 'Price of Fish' painting. Beautifully framed by the Chirnside Gallery. Slantily photographed by me.

Rust Never Sleeps #10, and a bit of #9 again.

Three new completed canvasses. I've been dabbling and fiddling with these for a long time, and changed the whole bottom half of 177 because I felt the balance of the painting wasn't right as it was.

These are off up to a new gallery in Dunbar on Monday, so I'm hoping a couple will be on display for the opening on Saturday.

Rust Never Sleeps #9: 177

'177' - Oil on canvas, 18" x 24".

A Number of Numbers.

 Three out of the five new Price of Fish paintings completed, apart from a few highlights here and there. With luck, a couple of these will be on show soon in a new gallery opening up in Dunbar.


Better photos to follow when they're completely complete.

Rust Never Sleeps 8: H2 Blue.

May have been a bit previous in posting this because I've not quite finished the rope in the corner, but it's close enough for jazz.

And another one blocked out very roughly. Very excited about this one, it's going to be a beauty I think.

Rust Never Sleeps 7: Supreme.

'Supreme', oil on canvas, 16" x 20".

Rust Never Sleeps 6: St Amant.

St. Amant, oil on canvas, 16" x 20".

The St. Amant, registered in Ballantrae, and operating mostly out of Peterhead, I think. Less baroque than usual and more sternly industrial but I quite like the simplicity of this one.

St. Amant, a quick Wikipedia reveals, is patron saint of vinegrowers, innkeepers, brewers, vintners, bartenders, and , oddly, Boy Scouts. Pissed ones, presumably.

In some exciting rust-related news, I've had some paintings accepted for display in Number Four gallery in St. Abbs.

I had a quiet snout around while Laura was giving them some of her jewellery (out on display now, and looking very fine) and I'm both surprised and delighted to be accepted there. They have some very, very splendid work; glass, ceramics, paintings, bronzes, jewellery, and it's all beautiful. They're having a Spring re-hanging soon so some of my work will be up and visible then. Can't quite describe how happy it made me: I took along nine paintings, thinking they'd choose a couple, and they took the lot. I got treated like a Proper Artist. A little bit of validation goes a long way.

Number Four gallery's website can be found here, and again, a big thanks to them.

Rust Never Sleeps 5: H*3

H*3, oil on board, 18" x 24".

I know at least one person has been waiting for this, so here it finally is. More rust.

Another one from the rich seam of colour, font and rust at Eyemouth harbour. I've got three more canvasses roughed out and ready to go.

I added the diagonal shadow at a very late stage on this, and it suddenly made the whole painting make sense. It's difficult to give a sense of perspective and depth on what is obviously a flat surface, but the shadow just made it 'leap' somehow.

I was looking through some estate agency auction materials from the mid 1830s today - handbills, posters, lithographic prints, maps etc., which was a very exciting thing for a history and font nerd. I got some interesting ideas, not unconnected with the fishing boat work, which I'm quite excited about. Hopefully something will come of it. More rust first, though.

Rust Never Sleeps 3

Registration of a fishing boat in Eyemouth harbour. LH
Oil on canvas, 20" x 16"