Moving Through

Dates: Saturday 3rd December 2022 – Sunday 29th January 2023
Launch Event: 7pm to 9pm, Saturday 3rd December
Times: Every day, 10am-4pm
Place: Silver Birch Gallery, The Rockfield Centre
Age: All Ages
Cost: Free

Art Exhibition

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‘Moving Through’ challenges Spink’s usual process of being physically immersed in the landscape to focus on a single sense: seeing. What results in this exhibition is a body of abstract Scottish landscapes that explore the horizon line as an inspiration.

“This exhibition involves the horizon line which changes my deep-rooted artistic relationship with the landscape. I have spent time looking at, rather than being immersed, in a place. The view becoming more important than the cognitive experience. It is work which has forced me to slow down and consider more formalised, traditional aspects of making paintings.” - Andy Spink 

Created between May 2021 and October 2022, the paintings and drawings in this exhibition were made either in one sitting plein air sessions on location or developed from sketch pieces in Spink’s studio.

Andy Spink 

Andy Spink resides in Oban, having grown up in the West Yorkshire town of Ilkley. In 1984, he attended a Foundation Course at Bradford Art School and in 1985, entered Cardiff Art College to study for an honours degree in Fine Art Painting. These were seminal years, the heady mix of being surrounded by creative and talented people remains to this day. 

After moving to Scotland, Spink gained professional outdoor qualifications in mountain guiding, snow and water sports and in the process have climbed, kayaked and surfed widely around the world, these experiences still influencing his artwork. Spink’s passion for being outside has not diminished. On all adventures, he takes his sketch book and paints along. Recording the experiences being as important to him as the undertaking, the journey not the final destination, is essential in his process. Spink’s artistic career coincides with his outdoor pursuits, having co-founded local charitable organisation Hebridean Pursuits Outdoor Learning in 1989.

Spink continues to be deeply committed to what creativity offers himself and others culturally. His work reflects on movements and time in the landscape, frequently immediate, and reflective of his psychological mood, the conditions, and seasons. His artworks are also often experimentally immersed within the environment, reflecting on Spink’s direct experience in the landscape.

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