{"id":2,"date":"2012-02-09T23:29:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-10-05T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:12:28","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Whitty is an artist based in Somerset UK<\/p>\n<p>You can see a more comprehensive back catalogue of work at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimwhitty.com\">jimwhitty.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My latest work will be on show at the Sarah Wiseman Gallery in Oxford. \u00a0Starting on Sat 16th October 2021<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.wisegal.com\">www.wisegal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more infomation about available work for sale please contact the Adam Gallery:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamgallery.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.adamgallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TheBendInTheRiverWEB1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25\" alt=\"The Bend In The River\" src=\"http:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TheBendInTheRiverWEB1200.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TheBendInTheRiverWEB1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TheBendInTheRiverWEB1200-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TheBendInTheRiverWEB1200-1024x467.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TheBendInTheRiverWEB1200-500x228.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My paintings are primarily a visual experience, so I find it difficult to write much about them. A lot of them are pretty large &#8211; 140x190cm being a common size with some of the Triptychs and Diptychs reaching 4 or 5m, so seeing them on a screen doesn&#8217;t give the immersive feeling that you get from standing in front of them in real life.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sure is apparent, I draw on landscape and nature as my main inspirations.\u00a0I love exploring, discovering secret, overlooked places off the beaten track. I&#8217;ll spend hours pouring over maps, following the course of a river or coastline on google, following my nose down a promising looking lane, or simply taking the dog for a run though the woods. These explorations revive a natural wonder for the world around us I have had since early childhood, and its often fleeting experiences at particular moments of transitional light, that provides the spark for a painting. I might use a photo, a memory, imagination, or even a dream as the starting point, but the process of painting can completely change the direction it goes in. \u00a0Thats one of the things I love about it. Playing with paint is a fun and messy experiment, its endlessly surprising. Seemingly random marks can build with rhythm and scale to create a sense of space. The canvas moves between the wall and the floor, paint is put on taken off, thrown splattered and glazed in the search for new ways of transferring a sense of energy. Putting more paint on in an attempt to reduce the image to something, that though its simplicity, becomes more absorbing; \u00a0the eye can rest while the mind wanders, or is it the other way round&#8230; \u00a0Not all are resolved, some leave questions unanswered, just as a half remembered dream does upon waking.<\/p>\n<p>I find both water and trees endlessly facinating, and they lend themselves well to creating dream like spaces, no only because they are loaded with deep rooted mythology and stories, but because of their constantly shifting, immersive qualities. \u00a0They are places of shelter and calm but also real or imagined danger and mystery. \u00a0A place to be set adrift from modern life and get lost,\u00a0enveloped in nature. When sunlight scatters and sparkles across water, or dances through new green leaves, it can lift the soul&#8230; \u00a0These are the fleeting moments I chase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Brief Biography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Born: \u00a01970<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early formative years spent between Nigeria, Malawi, Greece, and the Isle of Skye and Cotswolds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BA Honours Fine Art\u00a0 Glasgow\u00a0 School of Art\u00a0 1994<\/p>\n<p>Art and Design\u00a0 Foundation\u00a0 studies.\u00a0 Brighton\u00a0 Polytechnic\u00a0\u00a0 1989<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibitions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Permanent collection of the Paisley Art Institute 1993<\/p>\n<p>Royal Society of Arts student show, Edinburgh\u00a0 1994<\/p>\n<p>Animation Festival,\u00a0 Bremen &amp; Hamburg, Germany\u00a0 1996<\/p>\n<p>Video installation, Costa Caparica, Portugal. 1996<\/p>\n<p>Will\u2019s Art, Fulham, London. 1997- 03<\/p>\n<p>Cadogan Contemporary. Group shows.\u00a0 1997- 08.<\/p>\n<p>Watermans Art Centre\u00a0 1997<\/p>\n<p>106 Gallery, Sclater st. London.E1, 1998<\/p>\n<p>The Rack Gallery, Tyers Gate, London.SE1. 1998<\/p>\n<p>The Barbican VSO Show\u00a0 London 1998<\/p>\n<p>The City Gallery, London. EC2.\u00a0 1999<\/p>\n<p>An Tuireann Arts Centre, Isle of Skye.\u00a0 1999<\/p>\n<p>International Art Consultants,\u00a0 London E1 2000,01,02<\/p>\n<p>Mural Commission for HMS President, London\u00a0 2000<\/p>\n<p>Curated &amp; exibited \u2018Lambda\u2019. An Exhibition of light, Rhythm Factory. E1\u00a0 2001<\/p>\n<p>Solo shows at Cadogan Contemporary. London. 2002, 04, 05, 07, 08<\/p>\n<p>Wylye Valley Art Trail \u00a02009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Adam Gallery Solo show Bath 09<\/p>\n<p>Farrington Contemporary Gibraltar solo show 09<\/p>\n<p>Adam Gallery Cork st. London \/ John st Bath: \u00a0 Solo show 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Pop gallery, and Rook Lane Arts, Frome 2011<\/p>\n<p>London Art fair Islington 2012, 2013, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Moorwood Arts \u00a02016, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Bruton art factory 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes and commissions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winner of the Student Award,\u00a0 The Scottish Drawing Competition 1993<\/p>\n<p>Winner of Conchita Moore Memorial prize, Watermans Art Centre1997<\/p>\n<p>Year of the Artist\/ NWAB commission to redesign the look of the theatre touring ship \u2013 the Fitzcoraldo, for Walk the Plank 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E-mail:\u00a0 jim@jimwhitty.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jim Whitty is an artist based in Somerset UK You can see a more comprehensive back catalogue of work at: jimwhitty.com My latest work will be on show at the Sarah Wiseman Gallery in Oxford. \u00a0Starting on Sat 16th October 2021 www.wisegal.com &nbsp; For more infomation about available work for sale please contact the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwhitty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}