John McLean: Granite Suite 5

John McLean: Granite Suite 5There are many monuments to granite throughout the world and here in Aberdeen we are surrounded. We regard this weighty stone through its built form, however in John McLeans Granite Suite we witness a master colourist at the height of his powers, pay homage to its presence. On the occasion of McLeans 1988 debut at the Francis Graham Dixon Gallery, Tim Hilton of the Guardian writes Surely there is no other British artist with a comparable desire to

David McCracken from Peacock Visual Arts as well as Acknowledgements by Tom Hammick

The lithographs were particularly succesful

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24 October - 17 December 2017 at Flowers Gallery

This print was part of the 'Voyage Round the Coast of Scotland' project in which contemporary Scottish artists were invited to revisit the coastline depicted by the artist William Daniel in the Scottish section of his circumnavigation of the British  Coast in 'A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain'

and often paints ‘tongue-in-cheek’

Paper Size: 48 x 64 cm

Medium: Relief Print

1969) works in a wide range of media including light

Frances was one of the founder members of Peacock Printmakers in 1974 and has continued to have a close association with the workshop ever since and is still printmaking from stone

Paper Size: 77 x 56