SCOTT NAISMITH : RECURSION
Embodied Spirit Framed Size: 130 x 70 cm 130 70
Vision Defined II Framed Size: 70 x 70 cm 70 70
Cuillins Recursion Framed Size: 160 x 110 cm 160 110
Colour From Seed Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
As Above So Below Framed Size: 50 x 50 cm 50 50
A Hopeful Vision I Framed Size: 50 x 50 cm 50 50
Grasping Potential Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Animating Spirit I Framed Size: 60 x 60 cm 60 60
Animating Spirit II Framed Size: 90 x 90 cm 90 90
Harris Potential Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Colour in Transition Framed Size: 90 x 90 cm 90 90
Colour in Transition II Framed Size: 60 x 160 cm 60 160
Colour in Transition III Framed Size: 60 x 160 cm 60 160
Gesto Farm Recursion Framed Size: 160 x 110 cm 160 110
Heaven to Earth Framed Size: 70 x 70 cm 70 70
A Hopeful Vision II Framed Size: 50 x 50 cm 50 50
Lifting the Corporeal Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Lighting a Path Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Materialise Meaning Framed Size: 70 x 70 cm 70 70
Meaning and Matter Framed Size: 50 x 50 cm 50 50
Point of Sleat Framed Size: 190 x 130 cm 190 130
Recursion I Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Recursion Study I Framed Size: 40 x 40 cm 40 40
Recursion Study II Framed Size: 40 x 40 cm 40 40
Recursion Study III Framed Size: 40 x 40 cm 40 40
Vision & Reality Framed Size: 90 x 90 cm 90 90
Vision Defined I Framed Size: 70 x 70 cm 70 70
Vision Defined III Framed Size: 70 x 70 cm 70 70
Heaven to Earth 2 Framed Size: 90 x 90 cm 90 90
Fluid Resonance IV Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Black Rocks of Harris Size: 80 x 80 cm Framed Size: 92 x 92 cm 80 80
We are delighted to introduce our tenth solo show with Scott Naismith. This exhibition is called Recursion and it marks Scott’s continued and deepening interest in developing his work in a more abstract direction, bringing his understanding of particular meta concepts to light on the canvas.
Over the years Scott’s work has developed from a more straightforward and representational approach to landscape painting in which the rugged coastlines and beautiful sunsets of Scotland have been shared with viewers on the canvas, to his more abstract approach now, which involves using the immediate subject of landscape to explore concepts such as recursion, which occur within it.
Originally used as a programming concept, recursion refers to a process in which a pattern repeats itself on a smaller and smaller scale. We find this in nature in things like ferns, trees and coastlines, in which smaller elements make up larger elements that are all interconnected and which reveal the same, self-similar pattern on different scales.
In Scott’s paintings we are invited to see the landscape in this way, with various elements and concepts recurring throughout his paintings on a variety of scales. There is the top to bottom vertical transition of light to dark, spiritual to corporeal, heaven to earth, simple to complex. In all of his work there is the sense that the micro is in the macro and vice versa, and that each small part of his painting can also be read visually to reveal the whole.
These are fundamentally paintings of hope and light, and the sublime and awe inspiring experience of being a part of the natural world.
Scott will join us for the opening on Saturday the 20th from 2 – 4pm, all welcome.
Please contact the gallery to reserve or purchase any of Scott’s paintings, and to request further images or a viewing before the opening.
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