The paintings
Read the artist's statement about these paintings.Dimensions are accurate to 1 cm, and exclude any frames
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Shaped Mountain I, 2000.
Oil on board. 20 × 61 cm.
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This salmon leapt in the night, 2004.
Oil on board. 31 x 41 cm.
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As the crows fly (for Tchaikovsky) , 2006.
Oil on board. 31 x 84 cm.
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Sunlight on an evening sea, 2006.
Oil on canvas. 41 x 56 cm.
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Northern Lights III, 2006.
Oil on canvas. 51 x 61 cm.
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Northern lights VI, 2006.
Gouache, acrylic, aquatint on paper. 18 x 23 cm.
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A Winter's tale III, 2006.
Ink, gouache, etching on paper. 7.5 x 7.5 cm.
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A kite on its way home IV, 2006.
Ink, gouache, etching, aquatint on paper. 9 x 9 cm.
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The starlings gather over ploughed fields, 2006.
Ink, gouache, etching, aquatint on paper. 13 x 18 cm.
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Moonlight on the Dovey, 2000.
Oil on board, 31 x 41 cm.
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Night on the Dovey I, 2000.
Oil on board, 31 x 41 cm.
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WInter on the Dovey, 2004.
Oil on board, 30 x 36 cm.
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Collection: Denbighshire County Council
From Windy Hill X (Silent winter, dead Xmas Tree) , 2004.
Oil on board, 41 x 31 cm.
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Horizon VII (The autobiography of a rook) , 2004—2005.
Oil on board, 15 x 61 cm.
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From Windy Hill XIII (Sheep in the snow), 2005.
Oil on board, 20 x 65 cm.
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Breakwater III (A blue light), 2005—2006.
Oil on board, 20 x 66 cm.
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Fox in the snow, 2006.
Oil on canvas, 41 x 31 cm.
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From Windy Hill XVII: Five rooks and a magpie, sitting on my fence, 2006.
Oil on canvas, 41 x 56 cm.
Collection: National Library of Wales
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The black shed IV, 2006.
Oil on canvas, 61 x 76 cm.
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The black shed V, 2006.
Oil on canvas, 61 x 76 cm.
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Artist's statement
I work with painting, drawing, printmaking and photography exhibit as a painter, printmaker, photographer. Pictures can be abstract or representational, occasionally the figure wanders in, but mostly they have been concerned with landscape and architecture. A significant aspect is a preoccupation with the Spirit of Place. It was the realisation that, for me, the place I lived in, travelled through, was vitally important to the pictures I could make.
For me ideas are much more important than attempting to produce a visual identity based on self although currently this is unfashionable. I have little interest in the continual presentation of a recognisable motif. My pictures are derived from the memory of my awareness of observed locations, incidents, people; with their architecture and landscape. More recently, I have found myself using ‘landscape’ more as metaphor; the landscape of the mind, my mind, where emotion, feeling, sense of time, memories, demands more of my attention than topography. It has always been the needs of specific ideas that have determined the reason for using specific techniques and processes.
Biography
Alistair Crawford
Alistair was born in 1945, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, attended the Glasgow School of Art (1962-66), and since then has taught art and design at every level and also practised textile design, graphic design, printmaking, photography, drawing and painting and is represented in public, corporate and private collections world wide. He is also a well known writer, art historian and independent curator with publications in many languages.
Attracted by the unique landscape of Mid Wales, he came to live here in 1974 and, amongst many distinctions gained since, became the first Professor of Art in the history of Wales. He also instigated the new School of Art and the School of Art Gallery & Museum which opened in Aberystwyth in 1994. In 1996 he performed the first of his solo stage shows: An Evening with Eugenie Strong in Rome, followed in 2001 by autobiographical tales in the form of Brief Exposure. Several versions of these have been touring since.
You can see more of details of his work in various fields on his own web-site and at Axisweb