Paul Musgrove

The Gallery at Brunton Theatre

paul — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:29:23 +0000

Prints on show at The Brunton Theatre Gallery, in Musselburgh, East Lothian until March this year.

Visual Arts Scotland 2012

paul — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:40:58 +0000

Image selected to be shown at the VAS (Visual Arts Scotland)annual exhibition starting on Saturday the 4th of February until the 1st March 2012 at the RSA Upper Galleries, The Mound, Edinburgh. Image is from a road trip to Ireland taken on the Erriff River at the Erriff Bridge on the N59 in Co Mayo. The upper framed picture in the second image shows a digital version of the same image with the etching below.

Portable Antiquities?

paul — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:25:23 +0000

Glass Sentinels in Vitrine #1. Five glass standing stones encased in a Beech wood vitrine.

Vitreography – Axis #5

paul — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:55:32 +0000

The latest in the Axis Series which is also a new Vitreograph.
Made using four 12mm glass plates, they have been carved and cut using glass engraving and diamond cutting tools. Unfortunately the key plate broke after only four prints in proofing, so four it is!

East Coast Open

paul — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:42:40 +0000

The East Coast Open starts on the 17th of December. Venue is the Scarborough Art Gallery, this selected open exhibition runs until the 12th February 2012. If you are in the area get along and have a look at the show. For details of opening times have a look at the Scarborough Art Gallery website.

Grafika Polska SSA 2010/12

paul — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:20:11 +0000

As part of a cultural exchange between Scotland and Poland, printmakers from the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Art were invited to exhibit work at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee and at the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) 2010 Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. A reciprocal exhibition of prints will take place at the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Art in January 2012. I submitted two prints for participation in the show and both have been accepted.

speKtrum collective

paul — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:15:58 +0000

The launch of speKtrum collective is almost complete. The inaugural exhibition FIRST PRESS opens to the public on Saturday the 26th November. Venue is the Whitespace Gallery in Gayfield Square, Edinburgh and the show will run until the 15th of December. The exhibition will be donating 50% of it’s profits to Waverley Care, who support people living with HIV & Hep C in Scotland. Participating artists include Alfons Bytautas, Anne Forte, Alexander Hamilton, David Faithfull, Norman McBeath & others. SpeKtrum collective now has 15 artists and hopefully will grow over the coming years.

New Print

paul — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:53:33 +0000

This new print is four plates, printed using CMYK colours. Titled “Sentinels”.

Axis Series #4

paul — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:18:16 +0000

New image in the Axis Series – Drypoint etching, aquatint & carborundum on zinc plates, also shown #5 new Vitreograph five in all.

Printed together to form the fourth in the series. Shown here alongside the other prints in the Axis Series – also multi plate drypoints.

Art & Archaeology

paul — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:06:07 +0000

Exhibition open at Scampston Walled Garden, North Yorkshire. ART FROM ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE VALE OF PICKERING – Etched lines in a linear landscape. A collaboration between The Landscape Research Centre and artist Paul Musgrove. Officially opened by Prof Dominic Powlesland of the LRC. Daily until the 31st of October. See the Scampston Hall website for opening details.

Extract from – Vale of Pickering – Statement of Significance – by Dr Louise Cooke

…….Others such as the printmaker Paul Musgrove seek inspiration from the ‘traces’ in

the geophysical surveys undertaken by the LRC……….