tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55539012446430182722024-03-13T15:14:51.161+00:00Bridget Hunter's PaintingsPaintings of Scotland and other inspirations.Bridget Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12687955539907001586noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553901244643018272.post-43776625797565350612016-02-19T10:00:00.001+00:002016-02-19T10:00:25.153+00:00Gigha in Oils<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cBlk153yUUo/Vsbnr4Of7_I/AAAAAAAAB7I/DJisJCXc9WM/s640/blogger-image-915933915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cBlk153yUUo/Vsbnr4Of7_I/AAAAAAAAB7I/DJisJCXc9WM/s640/blogger-image-915933915.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Working on small oil studies from sketches done on a visit to the west coast island of Gigha .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i0cOK8WglIU/VsbnqB5NF4I/AAAAAAAAB7E/wxgHLJnHIdQ/s640/blogger-image--694113176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i0cOK8WglIU/VsbnqB5NF4I/AAAAAAAAB7E/wxgHLJnHIdQ/s640/blogger-image--694113176.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Open Studios Ayrshire is at the end of April but I'm trying to be in less of a panic </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">and these will be ready at least.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There are other exhibitions all around the same time and those will require larger works too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uEkPh_Q5I90/Vsbnt8IxSRI/AAAAAAAAB7M/xrISsJRISqo/s640/blogger-image-171431221.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uEkPh_Q5I90/Vsbnt8IxSRI/AAAAAAAAB7M/xrISsJRISqo/s640/blogger-image-171431221.jpg"></a></div>Bridget Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12687955539907001586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553901244643018272.post-34903025141084915952015-12-15T23:38:00.000+00:002015-12-15T23:49:01.370+00:00Two Months on Gigha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This June I stayed with 3 other painters on the island of Gigha for 5 days.</div>
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It wasn't the best weather for painting outside but the island was full of accessible painting places and the colours were a delight of blues and pale greens. And wild flowers everywhere.<br />
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When we were there we were offered an exhibition in the Gigha Gallery in 2016 and since then we've learned that the exhibition can be for 2 months, August and September, the holiday months when the islands busy with tourists.<br />
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Its very exciting and I've been sorting out works that may be suitable, mostly from sketches done during our stay though I'm hoping to return in May to do more studies.<br />
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Bridget Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12687955539907001586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553901244643018272.post-25100622582014711292015-12-03T19:51:00.002+00:002015-12-03T20:56:27.367+00:00 Modern Scottish Women | Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 Modern Two Edinburgh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is a friend's record of a recent day we had in Edinburgh - a Gallery Day, on of the best kind of days. Up by car and down by train and it rained and rained. Loved it!</div>
Bridget Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12687955539907001586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553901244643018272.post-75403570208816003302015-11-23T23:33:00.002+00:002015-11-23T23:36:40.641+00:00A Month of Yellows<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Everywhere I've walked this last few weeks it's been like walking through a land of yellow and because, until recently, the air has been relatively still the leaves have remained in all their glory.</div>
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I'm lucky to live a short drive away from Culzean Park where I regularly go, not only to walk, but also to work sometimes in the Charity Bookshop which raises funds for The National Trust. </div>
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This Autumn it's being held in The Lillie Art Gallery in Milngavie, Glasgow.</div>
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The Gallery has a collection of Scottish Art from 1850 to the present and includes works by Elizabeth Blackadder , Francis Cadell, Samuel Peploe and Joan Eardley.</div>
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Bridget Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12687955539907001586noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553901244643018272.post-87451451063698978962015-09-16T23:08:00.000+01:002015-09-16T23:08:15.377+01:00Five days on Gigha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Bridget Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12687955539907001586noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553901244643018272.post-16649947443052871632015-03-20T22:37:00.000+00:002015-03-20T22:37:11.700+00:00Glasgow Art Fair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Getting ready for the Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair.</div>
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Thankyou to The Ailsa Gallery who've asked me to be one of their 6 exhibiting artists at the Art Fair.</div>
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February has brought longer hours of daylight and that means more time to paint in natual light.</div>
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In the garden the signs of Spring are already showing - the snowdrops through and other bulbs beginning to grow.</div>
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This time though I've been using box canvases and trying out ways to paint the edges, trying black at first but settling on using the background colour.</div>
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The weather is just as you would expect in Scotland in January though the rain seems a bit wetter and the winds that bit stronger.</div>
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The worst part of this time of year, if you paint, is the shorter daytime light. By 4 o'clock it's already getting dark and I don't find daylight bulbs all that sucessful. In proper daylight the colours always seem too fierce hough I know many artists seem to like them.</div>
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Working away on the series of paintings with a predominantly ochre palette of the hills in this part of Scotland though I've started adding a bit of a windfarm or two</div>
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At the beginning of December I went on a pastel portrait course with Tom McKendrick in<br />
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This was the first time I've used dry pastels and the first time I've actually completed a colour portrait as my attempts in the past have ended up in the bin.<br />
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Again I've let too long a time pass since last here. I've been floundering a bit with my painting and been too concerned in producing finished works rather than being creative and enjoying the painting process as an end in itself.</div>
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Recently however I've been trying some Linoprinting at a class held in A House for an Art Lover, Glasgow and, though I need to practice it a lot more to get any half decent results, it's been a wonderful experience.</div>
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It's been strange though, how using a completely different medium has, in a way, rekindled my enthusiasm for painting and these two works, both inspired by the ochre colours in the local hilly landscape, were completed recently as a result.</div>
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My friend Margaret Law and I are taking part in a joint exhibition at a venue in Mauchline, Ayrshire. It's a new local gallery which started out life as a gift shop. It's now a Coffee Shop and Gallery and well worth a visit for the cakes alone. </h4>
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I got word today that my two paintings entered into The North Ayrshire Art Exhibition had been accepted and that's always a good feeling.</div>
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It's been a few years since I tried for this exhibition as I never seem to have enough works for </div>
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But this year I've involved myself in less and so have more paintings ready.</div>
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The exhibition is held in The Raquet Hall at Eglinton Park</div>
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It's hard to believe it's half way through June and the summer solstice is just 4 days away. </div>
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It doesn't get dark here until 11.30 pm and the birds are still singing, then they restart at 3.30 am.</div>
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It's the time of year I love the best and that is partly due to the splashes of garden colour.</div>
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I've a clump of the brightest red poppies, that started out in my grandma's house in southern England but bloom just as happily here on the West Coast of Scotland.</div>
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This year I've decided to try painting them, and because I love using and mixing red its become a series of poppy paintings.</div>
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I've just returned from a 5 day painting course with Emily Ball in Portugal.</div>
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The sketches were done using charcoal, watercolour, oil pastels and pencil and was a messy process</div>
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The windows are washed, the garden tidied, the frames have arrived and some more paintings have been brought out and finished off. Some have been binned or painted over but a few have survived after a bit of reworking.</div>
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The Studio with new furniture including this very handy drawer unit for storing all sorts of papers.</div>
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Painting to pull together some unfinished works that have lain under a bed waiting for inspiration but the truth is I've been really afraid to tackle them. </div>
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It gets like that sometimes, I just don't know what to do next so I hide them and just hope !</div>
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However the Open Studio event is getting closer and a few other exhibitions so I need to finish some of those .</div>
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Both show trees growing behind Burns Cottage garden which is very close to where I live.</div>
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There are some Scots Pines and its their shapes that I find fascinating.</div>
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I'd like to draw these pine trees in charcoal and look forward to having the time to go out when the weather is a bit warmer.</div>
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Bridget Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12687955539907001586noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553901244643018272.post-68529531616164194832014-03-15T10:26:00.001+00:002014-03-16T02:18:32.324+00:00A bit of self promotion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today I'm feeling fairly chuffed, no, very very chuffed, as I managed to design these </div>
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I've wanted a painting for the corner of the back room and always had in mind that something predominately red to hang near a favourite blue chair would be good.</div>
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