David McCracken: Passengers

David McCracken: Passengers"The fading light is what I really crave. Cars with their headlights just coming on." Sam Shepard from Motel Chronicles David McCracken was born in Glasgow and moved to Kemnay aged 8, a small quarrying village with a large hole at its heart. After studying painting at Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art in Dundee, he settled in the northeast of Scotland to pursue his first love of printmaking. He currently works at Peacock & the worm in Aberdeen and

The type and block are no newer than 1960 but more likely roundabout the 1920’s but posibly even earlier

Truly inspirational - I can still smell the Gauloise in the workshop

expressive lines in an illustrative style

Medium: Carborundum Monoprint

Adam Bridgland continues to delight

Ilulissat is a coastal town in western Greenland known for the Ilulissat Icefjord and for the huge icebergs of Disko Bay

often it reflects on human engagement with landscape

On being presented with a variety of beautiful French

subtle colour tones

The delicacy of the outlines often belies their overwhelming physical size and weight

The multi-disciplinary practice of Icelandic artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir explores notions of identity

either directly of through metaphor and extend their own experience