Ian MacLeod
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Ian MacLeod (IanMacLeod)
I’m an abstract painter living and working in British Columbia, Canada.
Education and activities
- Biography
I’m intrigued by patterns found in nature. I paint in an intuitive manner with sweeping gestures of opaque and transparent layers of paint to create surface texture and depth - focused on pure abstraction. Like a spiritual journey my work emerges from my consciousness. As in meditation, I am present in the moment.
My favourites
- Artist
Pollock, de Kooning, Franz Kline, Motherwell, Rothko, Rauschenberg, Twombly, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jack Bush, Ellsworth Kelly, Adolph Gottlieb, Milton Avery, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnnet Newman, Harold Town, Gathie Falk, Gordon Smith, Michael Snow, Marilyn Kirsch, Charles Arnoldi, Ronnie Landfield, Brice Marden, Elizabeth Enders, Mary Bogdan, Todd Clark, Rebecca Crowell, Joanne Mattera.
- Music
Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Neil Young, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, The Clash, Van Morrison, Rickie Lee Jones, Nina Simone, Charlie Parker, Dion, Joshua Redman, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Lou Reed, St. Germain, Ani DiFranco, The Tragically Hip, White Stripes, Bill Evans, Holly Cole, Rufus Wainwright, Steve Earle, Beth Orton, Nick Cave, Neko Case, Oscar Peterson, Lyle Lovett, Kronos Quartet...
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Jochen Hein wrote on 16. October 2009, 12:56:07:
Thanks for the favs.
You truely do inspiring surfaces, so free in colour and texture. You capture nature in all it´s richness without reducing it. Of course I see monumental landscapes, but it flips in abstaction and back so theses piece do not leave you alone, are thrilling.
Keep it on,
Jochen
patrick Thomas jennings wrote on 27. August 2009, 14:55:46:
Hello Ian,
Thanks for your comments. I intend continuing the figurative stuff. That work is, perhaps, more personal, more thoughtful and less intuitative ( or too literal ). The other work ( I mean the coast paintings and the interiors ) are more experimental and tend towards some form of gestural abstraction.I think its fine to produce diverse work, for me anyway.I,m thinking about new images for the figurative stuff at the moment and working on a series of more abstract paintings. I am trying to introduce more layering and texture without loosing the fluidity and the gestural quality. Hence my interest in your work , which manages to do all of that and more.
Ian MacLeod wrote on 26. August 2009, 22:33:47:
thanks Patrick.
ian
patrick Thomas jennings wrote on 26. August 2009, 22:09:00:
Hello Ian, Thanks for including my work among your favorites. Like yours very much. Would like myself to move towards abstraction but retaining elements of figuration;
Best wishes,
Patrick