Opening Night :: September 3rd Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Erlend Tait grew up on the Black Isle, listening to Heavy Metal, reading comics and drawing pictures. He studied drawing and painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, and then learned the ancient techniques of glass painting and staining while restoring windows in historic buildings throughout Scotland. This has informed his approach to picture-making, where pattern and symbolism combine to convey his state of perpetual confusion and blind positivity.
Erlend exhibits his drawings, paintings and stained glass regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute, and this is the first time he has exhibited in the USA.
We met at Art School and have been together since then. We’ve talked about collaborating from time to time but never quite worked out how to approach it. ‘Feminality Couples’ has encouraged us to find a way…
The process: we started by sitting together, listening to loud music and began a number of drawings each. These were handed over and soon we worked out which drawings we wanted to develop.
‘Double-edged sword’ went back and forth six times before completion.”
“Pamela Tait uses coloured pencils as her media of choice and creates portraits that are exquisite destinations for the eyes. The added combination of phrases, usually conjoined with the subject in some form or fashion, add an extra layer of depth that is sometimes poignant and sometimes comical, other times mysterious. These elements – which are sometimes very design based and lend their hand to a sort of pop art feel in her work – make Pamela’s work quite unique in a sea of contemporary portrait makers.
Pamela lives with her husband in the north of Scotland and will be having a solo show this September at FB69 Gallery in Köln, Germany.
We met at Art School and have been together since then. We’ve talked about collaborating from time to time but never quite worked out how to approach it. ‘Feminality Couples’ has encouraged us to find a way…
The process: we started by sitting together, listening to loud music and began a number of drawings each. These were handed over and soon we worked out which drawings we wanted to develop.
‘Double-edged sword’ went back and forth six times before completion.”
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