Visit James Lumsden’s Bayble studio – a chance to see new work in progress, and discover the process and the development of his work.
40 ÷ 40 is a retrospective exhibition of artwork by forty artists who have been significant to An Lanntair as we celebrate forty years. James Lumsden’s piece in the 40 ÷ 40 exhibition is ‘Point Series (8/19) 2019, Acrylic on canvas’.
Directions: James’ studio is the byre at the back of his house at 66 Lower Bayble, HS2 OQB (a traditional white Hebridean cottage with a ’66’ in the window). It is on the right a couple of hundred metres before the road veers left into Eagleton. Please note that parking is limited. Participants are encouraged to share transport if possible.
For the past decade James Lumsden has lived and worked between Edinburgh and Lower Bayble, travelling across the Minch on a regular basis. He has used the studio in Lewis to develop a series of paintings – ‘The Point Series’. While rooted in the same considerations of light, depth and mark as his earlier work – and although essentially abstract – these paintings allude to landscape and a sense of place which has developed from living on Lewis.
Arrived at both by chance and deliberation, the primary concern in James’ paintings is the creation of a sense of light, colour, depth and feeling. Using a historical glazing process, yet utilising acrylic paint and mediums, he builds multiple thin layers of translucent colour; layer upon layer, glaze upon mark upon glaze – concealing, revealing, action, reaction, until a sense of light and depth is achieved within the process.