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MY PERSPECTIVE

Gordon Wilson’s starting point is that he paints for himself : it is my perspective.
 

His art is observational.
His ‘take’ on any subject is designed to be on the lighter side, as opposed to the too serious.

When he paints a landscape, he doesn’t want the grass to be green and the sky to be blue - that is too obvious or cliched for him. He is moved by a more modern approach. His compositional emphasis includes many of the common Scottish landmarks like the fields or cottages, but he likes to caricature the small markers that denote living, such as the smoke from a chimney or perhaps the presence of a washing line. He also alludes to a young child perspective when he makes the viewer look through tall grasses or poppies in the foreground, towards his scene.

Where many of the contemporary Scottish landscape artists operate in a similar territory with predictable art-linear variations (impressionism to expressionism and abstraction), Wilson has carved out his own (very popular) unique niche with his own artistic recipe. He takes the same, underlying Scottish content but then distils these same ingredients through the mill of his own character and psyche to create his individual version or vision of Scotland.
He loves the landscape of Scotland but only engages with those elements that he wants to communicate within his compositions, whether it is nostalgic Puffers ‘the workhorses of the Western Isles (at one point), the rich red poppies he sees in the fields, the beautiful colours in a sky or the figurative elements that he draws into his narrative layers - the Belties or the Old Lady/ies.   

His paintings make the viewer smile and he reminds us that, despite all the challenges that life throws at us, it is still a great life (we are very blessed) and we should all lighten-up, look at all of the small positive elements that we can enjoy and, we should make the most of it.

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