Kilmorack Gallery August 16 – September 13 2025.
Back of Beyond is a collection of paintings garnered from various locations in the last year. One reason for the title is it refers to somewhere yet nowhere. It has the same ambiguity as ‘in the middle of nowhere’. It’s impossible to be in the middle of somewhere that doesn’t exist yet we have an instant resonance with the phrase. These are paintings done with a dual intent: painted at a specific time and a specific place but specifically timeless and universal. The gravestone and it’s shadow; the tree and the wind that bends it.